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From the San Francisco Chronicle comes a discussion of the demise of the dress code.

David Shaw, who writes the “Matters of Taste” column for the Los Angeles Times, says he has seen a marked decline in the standard of dress at top restaurants in his city. “Los Angeles is a more casual city than New York and San Francisco, but even so, people have gotten sloppy and careless,” says Shaw. “Most restaurants don’t want to talk about it because they’re afraid of offending their customers.”

When friends or family come from out of town for dinner, they always ask what they should wear. I have to pause, because I seldom consider a dress code or even a “generally acceptable” dress for a particular restaurant. The LA rule seems to be to wear what you feel comfortable in, that may be dressing to impress or jeans and a t-shirt. What do you think?

By Jonah (see more of his posts). Jonah is the founder of la.foodblogging and also created Digesty, a food blog aggregator and Cheww.com, a spam free foodblog search engine.