This is just a running list. Posted because I forget my own rules. Now anywhere there’s an Internet connection, I can remind myself. First, are ground rules, long posted here.
Food
Don’t take company to the restaurant you’ve been meaning to try. Go to one of the old reliable standbys, unless your guests are reliably easy-going.
Don’t order pizza anywhere but a pizzeria. The Italian restaurants with the stone ovens? You get either a large round cracker with glop on top or a yeasty flatbread with glop on top. Neither are pizza.