Typical of the contradictions which abound in the current dining scene, here's White Slab Palace, packed and crowded with non-eating clubbers, yet serving good seafood and unusual Swedish dishes at kind prices.
White Slab Palace
Started by Wilfrid, Jul 12 2010 02:27 PM
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 02:27 PM
Why live your life when you could curate it?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 02:29 PM
QUOTE(Wilfrid @ Jul 12 2010, 10:27 AM) 
Typical of the contradictions which abound in the current dining scene, here's White Slab Palace, packed and crowded with non-eating clubbers, yet serving good seafood and unusual Swedish dishes at kind prices.
C'mon, you're making this up, right???! "White Slab Palace"?!
Dom is almost god spelled backward.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 02:32 PM
It's a mystery to me why they are bothering, but if this food was being served somewhere more recognizably a restaurant, people would be excited about it.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 02:57 PM
You know the historical background, right?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 02:58 PM
you know Good World had better then it needed to have food as well.
Why not mayo?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 03:08 PM
This place was recently enthusiastically recommended to me by someone in the fashion industry. I ignored her. Who knew?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 04:14 PM
I never went anywhere near Good World.
Oh, is that the killer caribou? You wouldn't want that on your head, would you?
Oh, is that the killer caribou? You wouldn't want that on your head, would you?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 04:47 PM
Must have been very dark indeed. The Swedish flag is blue and yellow.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 04:53 PM
That is a very dark corner.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 05:03 PM
QUOTE(Sneakeater @ Jul 12 2010, 10:57 AM)
You know the historical background, right?
maybe we don't. I thought it was an effort by the good world people to expand as a restaurant, crowds never really came so they made it into a drinking scene
Why not mayo?
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 05:09 PM
That's basically it.
I think they were even a little surprised by how much it took off as a lounge.
I think they were even a little surprised by how much it took off as a lounge.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:29 PM
I didn't think it had been open very long.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:30 PM
Gotta be almost a year, if not a year already.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:31 PM
Wow. Well, they haven't given up trying with the food. I think it would be a great daytime option, if one needed to eat in that neighborhood daytime.
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Posted 12 July 2010 - 08:33 PM
It's funny. (If I weren't afraid of Mongo's making fun of me for misusing the word, I'd say "ironic".)
NIMBY types are going to use this as an example of a "stealth bar", a bar that got license approval by masquerading as a restaurant.
When as far as I can tell, the owners had every desire of operating a restaurant, but the market wanted a lounge. What were they to do?
NIMBY types are going to use this as an example of a "stealth bar", a bar that got license approval by masquerading as a restaurant.
When as far as I can tell, the owners had every desire of operating a restaurant, but the market wanted a lounge. What were they to do?
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