If you like food you should do both! There are plenty of things it's hard to cook at home or impractical to keep all the different things you need. A good example is ironically a really simple food. Pizza needs temperatures most domestic ovens aren't nearly hot enough to provide in order to make a quality result.

Restaurants also provide an opportunity to eat foods you've never experienced before which really helps cooking similar things at home as you have some idea of what the end result should be like. And the beauty is that this often doesn't have to be expensive to be good.

It's like any creative hobby you need to develop both craft and taste.

    > "Pizza needs temperatures most domestic ovens aren't nearly hot enough to provide"

You’re right on both points.

I’d say restaurants are great occasionally. It’s generally bad to go more than occasionally.

I don’t get why there are so many though, especially generic ones.