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New year's resolutions: the Going Out team share their 2024 commitments

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A New Year dawns. Going Out team members have been carving out their resolutions. Here they commit to improving their lives for 2024. Probably.

David Ellis

Call it the weather, call it indigestion — whatever it was, by about the tail end of November, I’d begun to lose interest in eating out. Nights propping up the bar, once my stock-in-trade, suddenly seemed rather hollow, glum, dull.

Instead, I took to my kitchen cupboards, which soon bulged with spices and pastes and a questionable quantity of cloves. But, having for a few weeks dipped and evaded invites, I now am longing to be out, to see, to smell, to taste.

My main resolution, then, is to keep up with what’s new, and catch up on those I missed (Abby Lee’s new Mambow sits proudly on top of the list, Boca a Boca has an intriguing backstory, and I somehow was blind to the Dover). Last year was also the year I managed to give up going out for lunch

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