I'm impressed that you remember the cocktail after the El Bulli experience.
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Started by Rail Paul, Feb 02 2010 04:42 PM
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:48 PM
They are awesome.Wait--did you and Jessika go to Chicago just to attend that dinner at Next?
I went to California expressly for the purpose of FL, Ubuntu, Manresa meals. And every year am sorely tempted to fly out again solely for Manresa's tomato dinner.
PS I also went for lunch with Rancho Gordo.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:51 PM
I'm impressed that you remember the cocktail after the El Bulli experience.
It was the walk over that did it.
I certainly don't remember the last 10 or 15 courses at Next. I forgot about the rabbit entirely, for example, until Jesikka mentioned it in her post.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:51 PM
They are awesome.
Wait--did you and Jessika go to Chicago just to attend that dinner at Next?
Given miles, it's not like it costs anything to go there.
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:54 PM
Cheaper than staying home, I always say.
They are awesome.
Wait--did you and Jessika go to Chicago just to attend that dinner at Next?
Given miles, it's not like it costs anything to go there.
Sardines aren't for sissies.---Frank Bruni
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The mistake one makes is to react to what people post rather than to what they mean.---Dr. Johnson
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Posted 20 May 2012 - 11:54 PM
Also, it's closer than Roses. (And when you get to Roses, El Bulli isn't even open anymore.)
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 12:30 AM
Cheaper than staying home, I always say.
I have to admit that the El Bulli dinner cost more than just about anything I could have done in New York that night (not being a cokehead and all).
Oh wait! I've so far "forgotten" to pay the ticketholder for it.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 12:40 AM
Wow. Kinda belongs in "Surrealism" for me.
Or "We are the 1% of the 1% (but with good taste) so we'd better watch our asses when we get home."
Or "We are the 1% of the 1% (but with good taste) so we'd better watch our asses when we get home."
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 12:46 AM
You mean like this quick trip to Chicago for this dinner is somehow different from the quick trip I'm taking there in a few weeks for my niece's wedding? Surely no one would call me effete for attending that.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 01:18 AM
Puhleaze. (I've always wanted to say that to someone.)You mean like this quick trip to Chicago for this dinner is somehow different from the quick trip I'm taking in a few weeks for my niece's wedding?
One is an example of devotion, and we're required to be humbled by you.
The other is an example of excess, and we're entitled to scold you. That it's
your niece is no excuse.
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 04:06 AM
You mean like this quick trip to Chicago for this dinner is somehow different from the quick trip I'm taking there in a few weeks for my niece's wedding? Surely no one would call me effete for attending that.
Of course it's different: this one was more fun than that one will be; no matter how much you love your niece, family is still . . . family.
To tell the truth, I'm kind of jealous. Not that I'd want to spend my money that way, but I wish I could.
[M]ost of the pastas hover around $25. This ought to be enough to buy bucatini that is cooked on both ends. -- Pete Wells on Caravaggio ( * review)
Tonight, there was a dessert of coconut, rhubarb, and black olive. Obvious in its execution how innovation and experiment, when introduced for their own sake, are annoying. --irnscrabblechf52, May 9, 2013
notorious stickler -- NY Times
deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 12:23 AM
For reasons unclear, Craig Schoettler, the executive chef of Grant Achatz and Nick Kokonas' cocktail bar The Aviary in Chicago, has been fired.
Schoettler helped launch the Aviary's acclaimed cocktail program in April of 2011 and has since gone on to achieve national notoriety, having been nominated for a James Beard Award for outstanding bar program (for the Aviary) and winning the award for national bartender of the year in the 2011 Eater Awards. A few months ago, rumors swirled that an international expansion of The Aviary was in the works.
Chef "fired"
"Peter Kiewit looked for three things in hiring people. He looked for integrity, intelligence and energy. And he said if a person didn’t have the first…that the latter two would kill him. Because if they don’t have integrity, you want ‘em dumb and lazy. You don’t want ‘em smart and energetic.”
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Posted 13 June 2012 - 05:15 PM
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Posted 07 September 2012 - 04:58 PM
Martin Kasner's KickStarter for the Porthole appears to be a success. $736,113 raised, goal was $28,500.
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