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Four Stars

by Scarlet Ives

Heat 5/5 One sitting ยท 25 min

One star. Three nights ago, critic Eloise Chen called Luca Varro's smoked duck technically flawless and emotionally vacant, and the internet lost its mind.

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One star. Three nights ago, critic Eloise Chen called Luca Varro's smoked duck technically flawless and emotionally vacant, and the internet lost its mind. Tonight she is back at his bar, and the chef comes out straight from the stove to tell her he counted her bites. He sends his cooks home and cooks for her himself: five ingredients, nowhere to hide. Eloise came back for his hands. If she takes them, she can never review him again. Luca asks for one thing: honesty.

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