Is Social Media Ruining Dining Out?

by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! On TikTok, if I see a post about a restaurant near me with beautiful interiors or great-looking food, I’ll favourite it or share it with a friend. When I’m at a restaurant and unsure what to order, I’ll try to find photos of the dishes on Instagram. And like a true millennial, I almost always post a flat lay of my restaurant meal on Instagram Stories.

But is all this capturing and looking at what’s been captured ruining my dining experiences? Was I missing the surprise and delight of my meals? Social media detracting from experiences isn’t a new topic but I’ve noticed it being talked about more — most notably earlier this year when The Row’s fashion show banned phones. var VMDAdsTheLatch = window.VMDAdsTheLatch || {}; var gptAdSlots = window.

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“As editors you want to just sit and take it in and experience it,” she said. “You want to unpack what the designer’s trying to say and see the nuances in the clothes and narrative. I think a lot of tha.