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Eleven Madison Park
Eleven Madision Park is the one NYT four-star restaurant that feels accessible to the little people. Everyone likes to talk about the lunch at Jean George being a deal. They say the food is the same in the Nougatine dining room, which is their less formal dining room, but let's face it - less formal somehow feels less good. Sitting in a different room inherently means you get a different experience. All the other four-star places are super fancy. Per Se is out of reach for me, with prix fixe being $275 or so. Then by definition Masa is like.. on another planet. Le Bernadin and Daniel don't offer a lunch that's within reach. Although now the rumor is that Eleven Madison Park is going to stop doing their super awesome $28 dollar two-course lunch menu. So of course I had to try to go before the deal of the decade comes to an end.
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4 comments. Posted on September 1 2010 at 2:59 pm
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Long tzi tang
Witness these two magicians. The brand of magic they're involved in has to do with sugar. Sugar that gets prodded and pulled until it's soft like cotton and looks like the fine beard of a dragon. I know this because there's a dragon in my closet, and he looks exactly like the candy these two magicians make. Arguably the best part about this candy is that I don't know how they make it, so it really is like magic to me. I'm not sure how you're supposed to do it... but I've got some pictures to show you what it's all about.
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7 comments. Posted on August 30 2010 at 11:58 am
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Minamoto Kitchoan
Around the corner from a TGI Friday's in Midtown, you can find yourself in a place far far away. You might not expect that in the Rockefeller Center area, you could have something that's like a teleporting machine. With tourists all around you, it's always good to know where to go to escape the madness. The store in question is Minamoto Kitchoan and the place it takes you to is Japan. From the outside it looks like a store that sells cute Japanese knick nacks. Looks closer and you'll discover that it's actually a store that sells wagashi, the Japanese snack that's often served during tea ceremonies.
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4 comments. Posted on August 26 2010 at 9:58 pm
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BK Buck Double
Dear Buck double... What can I say to you that hasn't been said before? Well, quite a lot actually since you're new to the scene. BK is just advertising you these days. The poster on the window drew me in and bam! I was gonna have you. After taxes, it's just $1.09 here in New York. And the three slices of pickles offered the first hint at fiber that I've had all day. That is, until you made me feel so guilty that I ran to the nearest fruit cart and bought bananas. You made me get bananas but didn't make me go bananas. And at the very least you didn't make me go.
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4 comments. Posted on August 25 2010 at 1:40 pm
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Duryea Lobster Deck
I think Royce C. Lamberth is a twat. That's my opinion, and if you don't like it, please just leave. Save you and me both some time. You want to know who it is. He's the judge that's making it illegal (for the time being) for scientists to continue to use federal funds to do stem cell research. Let's be clear - any time you want to use religious backed thinking and go against logic and scientific development, then you're just shitty. You know what's not shitty though? Lobster rolls. The ones in question took four hours to procure. They required a subway ride to Penn Station, and then a 4 hour LIRR ride to Montauk and then a short ten minute walk. You got all that? It's almost as tiring as hearing news about a crappy Republican judge getting in the way of science in the name of the spaghetti monster that lives in space. But after that long journey, you arrive at Duryea's Lobster Shack.
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5 comments. Posted on August 24 2010 at 9:28 am
