i don't think the new guy is bad. i liked sam sifton enough but i doubt many people miss him. unlike bruni who was missed.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
now sam sifton HIS reviews could sometimes skirt the territory on this thread. cuz he was way into class and snobbery and hipsters.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
no excuse for bad fries. so many places making good fries these days. sometimes they are the best thing about a restaurant these days.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I mean there's a lot to be said about a shake shack being put in a predominantly black outdoor mall, the changes in downtown brooklyn, etc.
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
stfu
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
crinkle cut fries pshhhh
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
they are okay as cheese fries
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
really boring as regular fries
the worst are cheap burger joints with those horrible fries that are coated with something awful. blah. i blame sysco. they must be cheap as hell which is why bad restaurants buy them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
there is bad bacon going around too. in cheap diners. horrible horrible bacon that tastes like death and deadly chemicals. must cost ten cents a pound. again i blame sysco or whatever bulk crap company makes that stuff. bacon is already deadly, no reason for it to taste deadly too.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
crinkle cut have no purpose. regular fries or waffle fries or gtfo
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
scott is otm. I have a friend who go to go to a food distribution show for companies like sysco to sell restaurants their pre-made crap and it was all bizarro pseudo-food and prepackaged chicken cordon bleu and shit
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
there is more to the burger story:
http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/21/seven-burgers-go-up-against-shake-shacks/?ref=reviews
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
why tf interloper bloomberg was cutting a ribbon in BROOKLYN instead of BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ its an outrage to anyone w/any sense id like to say
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
A. de V.Fort Lee, NJFLAGCome to Fort Lee and try Five Guys. Their burger is a 2 patty affair. The fries are also terrific.
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
crinkle cuts are always cold
always
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
brownie otmfm
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
brownie have u been to Sweetie Fry in Cle Hts?
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
have you guys had those crunchy "seasoned" fries at a burger place before? they oughta be outlawed. so fucking bad. i'm outraged just thinking about them. i never should have thought of them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
One memorable night, I ate half a dozen burgers in Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan, traveling with a half-eaten Shake Shack burger in my pocket for reference purposes. (If you want to try it yourself, get a single burger, no cheese or other condiments. You’d be surprised how well it holds up to this kind of treatment.)
― max, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
btw i am a huge pete wells fan for no other reason than the fact that he infuriates eater/chowhound commenters
― max, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
i hope it was his back pocket.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link
did he eat all the burgers sans condiments n cheese im confused
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
i aways get the shack burger its p dope
they should have just had eric asimov do the regular reviews. he was fine.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
are you saying his test was not scientific enough because he was comparing condimented burgers to a burger stuffed in his pocket
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago) link
they should have isaac asimov do them i be hed come up w/some neat ideas
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.)
no! never even heard of it.
best clevo fries i've had are at sasa matsu on the square
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
he would def have a more scientific system. like he would put the other burgers in his pocket also. xp
― iatee, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's on Lee Rd up the block from the Library. They do regular and sweet potato fries w/ a variety of dipping sauce options; and also a bunch of homemade ice creams. They had a Left Hand Milk Stout chocolate last month that was A+.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago) link
hmm
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
would clevo fap with brownie and phil d one day to conduct a scientific fries experiment.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
I gave myself a double blind taste test by putting all the burgers in my pocket and pulling out burgers at random
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
hs, i will even wear my bills t-shirt
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link
also will be wearing dayos's trousers
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
we can put fries in one pocket, dipping sauces in the other
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to need more pockets
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
going cargo
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
I will have Rob Liefeld draw me a bunch of pouches for sauce storage.
― A Full Torgo Apparition (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
:P
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
save pocket space for pierogies imo
― brownie, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/arnyD.jpg
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
She is currently a yoga teacher at Laughing Lotus Yoga Center in Manhattan and San Francisco, and an editor of gay romance novels. But there was also a two-year stint as an online celebrity gossip reporter and several years as a Latin instructor at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn. And she earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Hunter College; she is in the beginning stages of writing a book about spiritual and emotional rebirth.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/greathomesanddestinations/taking-the-chill-off-contemporary-in-tribeca.html
― I DIED, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
I stopped at "Laughing Lotus Yoga Center".
― Nicole, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
t/s that pararaph vs:
(Ms. Krause, 41, has a similarly eclectic résumé: born in Sweden and trained as an architect, she moved to New York in 1996 and worked as a dance instructor at Equinox gyms before starting a line of handbags. She and her business partner, Tracey Sawyer, founded their design firm, Krause + Sawyer, in 2010, but she still teaches a class at Equinox “for the joy of it.”)
― iatee, Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
How can a lotus laugh? Anthropomorphism has gone too far.
― valleys of your mind (mh), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
Ms. Krause’s adroit mix of earthy and slick
and this
“It was the kind of apartment where you didn’t care if someone spilled red wine,” Ms. Stone said. “Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.”
are the best parts imo
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
That has a whiff of "dogs must be carried on escalator".
― ledge, Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
Mmm clear liquids.
― tinker tailor soldier sb (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid. Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid. Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid. Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid. Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid. Now, no one is allowed in my bedroom with anything other than a clear liquid.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link