Friday Night Dinner: Dakota
On a warm Friday night in May, whilst visiting Leeds we ate at Dakota. Not knowing Leeds, we booked this place on the strength of lots of positive online reviews.
The restaurant is located in the basement of a hotel, and is gloomily dark. I'm not a fan of massive strip lighting in restaurants, but I do think the lights could have been turned up a bit. We note that online photos do show the restaurant more lit up.
The service was efficient. However, the waitress we had serving us, should work on making guests feel less "patronised" when engaging in small talk, for example when commenting on a customer's wine choice, or when discussing the purpose of their visit to Leeds.
We started with what was a “complimentary bread with a tomato, goats cheese and mozzarella dipping sauce" — apparently this was the favourite dish of the waitress. It was tasty enough, but perhaps a little heavy on the over-reduced tomato purée flavour.
The food was fine, the cod with prawns on a finely chopped red pepper base was fine, and my companions lamb was well cooked. A single side of soy glazed tenderstem broccoli (rather than the "recommended" 2 or 3 sides) was more than sufficient for us.
Overall I wouldn't recommend Dakota or revisit if I was in Leeds again. There are plenty of other options, which, in hindsight would have been better.
Life Line
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
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RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
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I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
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RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
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