Hipsters Bite

Somehow I end up having conversations about hipsters with my friends. It’s usually because we’ve recently encountered one and it resulted in a negative experience. From my own experience they seem to look down upon my presence for whatever reason, but what do I care, it’s their fault for being so pretentious! Despite my friend’s and I constant complaints about these hipsters (I can assure you we are not the old dude’s from the Muppets) we always conclude that they have brought us one good thing---food.  
I have no clue what the exact definition of a Hipster, but through my own observations I have  noticed a few common things. Normally, they don’t call themselves hipsters (the ones that do are probably 14 year-old kids that popped out the lens of their 3D glasses from when they saw Frozen) they might not even know they’re a Hipster. If anything the term “Hipster” serves as an umbrella term for the many types of people that are "alternative". The sketch comedy show Portlandia does an accurate depiction of the many types of hipsters there are. Here is one example:

As mentioned before, I tend to think of the term "hipster" serving as an umbrella term for the many types of lifestyles people live. Look at the comic below as an example:

I don’t mean to glorify the fad, because as Reddit user, ratchetthunderstud, whose best friend was a hipster states that a hipster’s attitude is like the following: “if a lot of people are starting to like this / do like this, it is automatically crap.” In my opinion this attitude is just “young adult angst” and no one wants to be around that, but they have made a significant impact in the restaurant industry by synthesizing their pretentious attitudes with food.

Many things make a restaurant hipster here let me make a list of those things

Hipster things about restaurants:

The location—Was it kind of hard to find? Is it in an area you haven’t explored yet? Did you have to yelp it before hand?

The furniture—Very minimal, nothing too flashy, but boy does it look sharp!

The atmosphere—Is there dimmed lighting? Are people talking over each other? There’s music playing, but I’m sure you haven’t heard the song before. Is it crowded and people are wearing eccentric clothing?

The food—Do they have vegan, gluten free, free range, locally grown, organic options? Is it kind of expensive, but totally worth it because it was delicious and you can never make it yourself?

I know I’ve been poking fun of hipsters, but the restaurants that are inspired by the lifestyle have, in my opinion, been delicious. Maybe being pretentious goes a long way with food because it allows these hipster inspired restaurants to experiments with exotic food fusions or create off the wall cuisines that are remarkable. So I encourage you to check out the hipster-esque restaurant, (for all I know the hipsters could be your cup of tea; loose-leaf oolong tea made in a French press right?) and enjoy the food.