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I learned how illicit border crossing works. I can't say it was all fun but as someone who enjoys this sort of thing I have to say the smugglers subverted the border control very elegantly using a keen understanding of security flaws (and some palm grease of course)

A typical autumn dish from Mantua to Modena.

But also the nyt restaurant critic role is sort of cancelled.

I think by now half my brain is made of that

Amber is Georgian for orange

I thought it's the Martini line.

So it seems

Opentable too is part of a public company (that also owns Booking.com, so you can tell where OT is going...)

I imagine that well is dry now that DoorDash bought SevenRooms and not OT

How is this not on the front page of the times???

You can see the difference in service temperature!

Snarky but not wrong

Ok I read that chapter, the timeline makes little sense to me but what's a bit of fiction between friends? Won't Plotz sue her? 🤣

Didn't she join Momofuku after the party was sort of over?

Thank you. Almost identical to how it would be made in Bukovina a century ago, except somewhat less salty because I can.

p.s. I did this for the community board recently - the dark red is at 50% of peak noise complaints from 10 years ago. Bars and clubs are now 6% of complaints, where NYCHA+neighbor+school etc. are 25%

Crowded bars and sidewalks are now weekends only, weather permitting. The crazy block between 1st and A Cuomo had to personally shut down during covid now has three high end sushi places, and a cheap one, a pizza from some Chicago michelin ** operation, and only a couple of bars left. Holiday doesn't spill singing drunks into the street at 4am either. Heaven Can Wait is gone and I think is turning into a bar, Baker Falls was kicked out of the Pyramid space and maybe is operating downtown now, I'm not sure. Who even remembers Avenue B? When it moves it is largely replacing existing venues (see Baker Falls), not creating new ones, and the community board put a hex on the area - initially centered on Ludlow and Rivington but most recently trying to push back on Dimes Square: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/dining/dimes-square.html

You have to live on St. Mark's to appreciate the total nightlife collapse.

Data says the average single diner in nyc spends exactly half of the average couple.

Yeah, but it's just not as good. You can run a simple experiment and see.

I'm pretty sure Ten Bells was serving some skin contact wines (Calek for sure) even before Vladimir opened.

Hoarding cheap canned beans is the obvious answer.

Does someone need the zinc?

The frog will be served head on!

Putin!