Edit: Sorry, that should be Chez Panisse at 40, or Chez Panisse's 40th. Why can't we edit topic lines?
Chez Panisse at 40
Started by Really Nice!, Aug 08 2011 07:10 PM
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:10 PM
All the news about it.
Edit: Sorry, that should be Chez Panisse at 40, or Chez Panisse's 40th. Why can't we edit topic lines?
Edit: Sorry, that should be Chez Panisse at 40, or Chez Panisse's 40th. Why can't we edit topic lines?
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:13 PM
does that mean we each get an egg cooked in a spoon in celebration?
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:17 PM
Edit: Sorry, that should be Chez Panisse at 40, or Chez Panisse's 40th. Why can't we edit topic lines?
You can't. But I can.
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:52 PM
Would it be fair to say (and based on two meals I've had there) this is a place more important for what is, and what it represents, then as a place to eat?
Why not mayo?
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 08:32 PM
In 2001 we had our first of two visits there and we came to the same conclusion. While there's no debating its importance in the American culinary scene, we felt that it was more like a neighborhood eatery than anything else. Maybe that's all it ever was, I don't know...Would it be fair to say (and based on two meals I've had there) this is a place more important for what is, and what it represents, then as a place to eat?
However, I wouldn't mind returning to it. Our meals were enjoyable.
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Posted 08 August 2011 - 09:38 PM
I ate there twice last month, once upstairs and once downstairs and I thought it was excellent. It is a great place to have a delicious meal with friends.
But don't go there thinking it is a Parisian three star, because it is not. It is the perfect neighbourhood restaurant: high quality ingredients, simply and expertly prepared.
But don't go there thinking it is a Parisian three star, because it is not. It is the perfect neighbourhood restaurant: high quality ingredients, simply and expertly prepared.
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:09 PM
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:28 PM
oh i am so lucky i got to eat there in january just think if i'd never been it would be the greatest tragedy of my life
[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
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deeply annoying and nitpicking -- Molly O'Neill, One Big Table
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:31 PM
“I have a dream of a multiplicity of pastramis.”
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
"None of you get it." - Wilfrid (on the Beatles)
"I don't have time to point out all the ways in which you're wrong" - irnscrabblechf52
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:33 PM
Waters' smugness spontaneously combusted.
Now, now Lex, be careful. Her best bud resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Posted 08 March 2013 - 09:36 PM
fire!
Waters' smugness spontaneously combusted.
i'm thinking she forgot an egg filled spoon in the fireplace. it's a terrible thing that happened, but her interview just drives home what a spectacularly unsympathetic character she is.
“One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no!', I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.”
~Jack Handey
*proud descendant of cheese eating surrender monkeys*
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Posted 10 March 2013 - 06:46 AM
I would just like the record to reflect that I was nowhere near there that night.
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Posted 12 March 2013 - 12:16 AM
It's an iconic restaurant. You don't go for a memorable meal. You just.....go.
I did, back in the early 90's. It was a pilgrimage.
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