Restaurants

A little while back, I mentioned the blog New York Knife & Fork.
My suspicions about its overall uselessness were confirmed when she reviewed the joint right around the corner from my house, a Bosnian restaurant called Pasha.
Call me old-fashioned, but I think that a restaurant reviewer (especially a self-proclaimed one) should adhere to a certain [...]

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I recently came across (OK, no, Peter forwarded me the links) two blogs doing reviews of Astoria restaurants.
Every Restaurant in Astoria seems like the more promising, if only because its authors recognize the sheer foolishness of their endeavor: “like Sisyphus, but with gyros,” as they put it. I like their moxie, and their attitude comes [...]

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Finally ate at Sripraphai again, so I could make, whoo-ee, the third post ever on my biting-off-more-than-I-can-chew Sripraphai Database project.
I think maybe the Sripraphai Database should be a wiki. It needs more mouths than I can provide.

Since yesterday, I have been embroiled in and fascinated with Kohnstamm Kontroversy… Fortunately it landed on a couple of days when my research schedule has been relatively light. My main challenge in Taos has been catching up on all the new restaurants (ha–I typed ‘restrooms’ first by mistake…perhaps also true). I carefully charted out which [...]

Because I’m dealing with my incoherent notes from my notebook two nights ago, this post borders on telling you about a weird dream I had. In the same way, it may be just as boring.
My notebook says:
“Here I am at the Coyote Cafe, ground zero of SF trendiness. I am optimistic.”
(The back story: Eric [...]

Back in Astoria, alhamdulillah. Back in the US, meh. After eating all kinds of fresh tastiness in Mexico, I’m reminded of the idiocy of US farm subsidies by an op-ed in the New York Times: “My Forbidden Fruits (and Vegetables),” in which a Minnesota vegetable farmer relates how he actually had to pay fines for [...]

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I got over my post-patisserie-collapse trauma and went to the new Thai place, Leng, that has taken over the space at 33-09 Broadway. We were supposed to go to the new Philoxenia, which took over the space that was, for a brief and shining moment, the fantastic Peruvian bar. But it was closed on Monday [...]

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I just happened across this “Behind the Scenes at a 5-Star Resort” article. I’ve always found large-scale food prep intriguing, and all the other stuff about staffing and electricity is equally cool. Well, cool if you don’t think about the larger evils of all-inclusive resorts, that is…

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The last few winters have been so creepily warm, then just gray and dreary, and then when it finally gets around to snowing, in February, all you can think is, Well, thank _God_, because the apocalypse isn’t coming quite yet.
But snow in December! After it’d actually been cold for a few days! I am [...]

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Peter and I ate at Sripraphai last night. I think it’s been eight years since I’ve been going there. I remember when it was one room, with mirrors on one wall. I once saw a Thai customer pick up the sugar dispenser on his table and pour sugar all over his noodles. [...]

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Hooray! Ali is getting back in action as of tomorrow, Saturday, 7/7/07. Unfortunately I, like probably everyone else in the US, have to go to a wedding, so I won’t be there to check it out myself.
Thanks to meddlesome fire inspectors, Ali has had to totally revamp his kitchen. I’m very curious what [...]

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Peter found this review of Aces yesterday. Utterly slams the place, and then says:
The saving grace is the food.
Uh. Thank goodness, considering it’s a restaurant. For all the space aliens reading, that’s a place where you go to eat food.
This does point to a fundamental schism in the world of restaurant customers. [...]

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With jaunty thumbs-up, that’s Peter’s salient review of Aces (36th Ave. between 32nd and 33rd Sts), Astoria’s new(ish) styley restaurant. I’m just getting that joke out of the way right at the start, so we can move on to more important things.
Like drinks!
I said in an earlier post that Miguel makes a mean mojito. [...]

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