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how do we feel about making restaurant reservations the old fashioned way? While some may roll their eyes at the idea of making a phone call to speak to a real person for a reservation, Vaughn says customers are happy to find a human on the other end of a phone line. “People are almost starving for that human connection,” Vaughn said. In a world where a machine is used to instantly access everything from dinner to dish soap, there are advantages — and costs — to tech. OpenTable runs between $149 and $499 per month for a restaurant, plus a per-person reservation fee that varies depending on the plan, from 25 cents (from the restaurant site) to $1 (from the OT site). Yet it comes with firepower. “OpenTable equips restaurants with the tools that pen and paper simply can’t do alone such as filling seats, driving loyalty and repeat guests, and delivering personalized hospitality,” OpenTable CEO Debby Soo answered via email.
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click for a related story from 2022: ————— The three principals of Major Food Group, the hospitality company behind the celebrity-packed, always-booked Carbone restaurants, seem to be crushing it in Miami. With Contessa, the chefs Mario Carbone and Rich Torrisi and their partner Jeff Zalaznick have now chalked up nine openings in Florida in less than two years. (A 10th, Japanese Bocce Club, opened at the Boca Raton resort the next day.) The partners, all native New Yorkers, will soon have more restaurants here than they do in Manhattan. And that’s to say nothing of the Carbones that need tending in Dallas and Hong Kong, and the Sadelle’s in Paris and Las Vegas, all opened in the last decade. At press time, the global count was 42 restaurants — a portfolio rivaling those of star chefs like Alain Ducasse and Jean-Georges Vongerichten that took 40 years to build. New York, the partners have always said, is “in the DNA” of the brand — not only in its food, but in its combination of irreverence and elegance, past and present, wit and edge. But most of the group’s recent moves appear to be in the direction of a lifestyle brand for the world’s 1 percent: members-only clubs with cigar bars; $500 tracksuits from Mr. Carbone’s fashion line, Our Lady of Rocco; shrimp scampi priced at $35 per shrimp at Carbone Miami; and a branch of Sadelle’s, its homage to Jewish American food, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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🧐 Purti Pareek, a lawyer who lives on the Upper West Side, respects the forthrightness of these places. “Chefs should be able to do what they want, and they put so much effort into creating the restaurants and creating their own point of view,” she said. “But on the other hand, it makes me sad and annoyed as a vegetarian who wants to eat out at places like that and wants to experience every type of cuisine the world has to offer.” vegetarians: caveat emptor
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if you are headed to the uk anytime soon, you might want to give this restaurant review blog a quick look. some of you may remember andy lynes from egullet; seems like andy is a follower of the author on threads. the below is an excerpt from a lengthy post on a gastropub in islington: The menu changes every day and they publish it on the website, so it was much as I’d expected. It’s curious how some menus present you with very difficult choices while some, despite making all the right noises, are devoid of dilemmas. I would say that, however well it read, the Drapers Arms menu was the latter. Nine starters, all of which seemed to be either gutsy and rustic or, for my money, a little too virtuous. It was all a tad binary for me. You had the same number of mains, although four of them – the fun ones – were to be shared between two. That made the whole thing a little more restrictive than I’d have liked and if you didn’t like offal or bone marrow, both of which made an appearance, I think you might have found things trickier still. Starters generally clustered between eight and fifteen pounds, mains started just shy of twenty but climbed, for the sharing dishes, up to ninety quid.
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someone on threads says that the vegetarian pastrami sandwich at katz’s tastes of sadness i’d add, “with a dash of dan barber”
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they cost $5 a piece probably on par with a taco truck’s pricing in 2024. the ones i used to get from the truck that was parked near east 86th street when i was living in nyc cost half that amount…in 2015.
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a video of a dinner at le veau d’or by the amateur gourmet on tiktok (the link takes you to threads where you may be able to view it)
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sunday: cucumber, mint, and celery salad chicken with grapes, olives, and sage italian fruit salad (with grapes, orange, and pluots)
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saturday: baked rockfish; steamed brown rice; miso shiru with carrots and mitsuba; carrot and daikon salad; quick cucumber and ginger pickle.
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perhaps the tale of the chobster is enough? martha stewart loves the place, allegedly
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lol i knew you guys wouldn’t let me down