I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America - Caity Weaver in The Atlantic

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I’ve been reading Weaver since their “Best Restaurant in New York” column in Gawker. Is she the finest writer working in US journalism, possibly ever? I think so.

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I like her, but she is definitely an acquired taste.

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TL;DR: the cranberry-walnut bread at Parc in Philadelphia and Le Diplomate in D.C.

[Stephen] Starr estimates that, at a cost of about 60 cents a basket, with 10,000 customers a week, Parc gives away slightly less than half a million dollars in free bread every year

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