List Dump

The special and unique local restaurant is getting harder to find. The massive infrastructure of the corporations is making it harder and harder to compete or harder to resist selling out. Thus creating an empty homogeized version of a truly special thing. These places have been built on dreams and YEARS of hard hard work. We know them when we see them and some of us consider them one of the "simple pleasures" in life that make it worth living! Let's celebrate them as SHINING EXAMPLES!