When a restaurant opened near her New York City apartment, Hilary Mason found its menu uninspired: salmon, arugula, and all the other culinary keywords without any of the risky dishes that make for great dining. "I thought, 'This must be the median West Village restaurant; it's just so boringly average,"' she says. Most people would have written a tepid Yelp review and left it at that.
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