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Chef Warren Lewis probably has made the same joke a thousand times. They probably taught it to him in culinary school.

It goes like this when someone asks, "So, what is your favorite thing to make?"

"Reservations," he says.

Like his meals, the fact that his joke has been perfected through the years only makes it better.

Lewis, 44, and his wife, Marianne, have owned and operated Chef Warren's in downtown Southern Pines for eight years.

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