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the solution is simple: move to jersey city.
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oh, you delicate new yorkers! we visitors from the provinces happily took the path back to our hotel in newark after dinners in manhattan and brooklyn a couple of weeks ago.
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31 minutes ago, Wilfrid said:
But, Jersey City?
a dangerous frontier, i agree.
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presumably, a larger retrospective than we took in at the whitney in 2023 that was focused on her drawings ("through line"). yes, really wonderful stuff.
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not that much more exclusive than tiny chef's counters that seat fewer people and open a few more nights a week (and make you eat fermented moss while sitting on stools).
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there's clearly a correction in progress in the post-wells era re the times' coverage of restaurants serving non-european/japanese-derived food. arguably, an over-correction from time to time (see the bungalow embarrassment) but what's the issue with the korai kitchen review?
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and we had similar feelings about the monet. a pain to navigate, the majority of it decidedly not monet in venice, but also some stunning paintings from venice. on the whole, though, felt somewhat cobbled together, especially in light of the last similar exhibition we'd seen in the city (matisse and derain in a fishing village one summer, at the met in 2023).
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many (i think*) of the large prints were made very close to or after his death in 2002. the striking self-portrait at the entrance of the exhibition (the one that's also blown up and projected on the wall) was only printed in 2018.
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the other red meat.
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had drinks on sunday with a couple who should know. my understanding is it's going to return as a chicken tenders shop: fox in the henhouse is the working title.
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l’industrie was very good. very long line but it moved surprisingly fast.
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thanks all, for the recs. we really enjoyed the pizza at mama's too when we were in the city with the boys in 2019--the rest of the experience? not so much.
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or just by penn station, i suppose. this is for the purpose of a quick bite on arrival in the city before heading to one or the other museum. oh yes, on a saturday.
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should be by a line from penn station and within (relatively) easy reach of either the whitney or the met--say no more than a 20 minute walk away. for lunch. please advise.
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my memory is that the first third is slow. and then it suddenly gets going.
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over/under on number of shows before restraining order?
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on the other hand, everyone was very nice at the conveyor belt sushi place in kyoto station where we ended our eating out in japan. (the boys had really wanted to eat a conveyor belt sushi meal; of course, the quality of the fish was better than at most neighbourhood sushi places in the u.s where you'd pay a lot more.)
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just realizing that i never closed the loop on this.
we did go to japan for 10 days in june/july. we arrived in tokyo on june 23, stayed a week and then took the train to kyoto for 3 days (and then headed to seoul and delhi before returning to msp).
the tldr version: it was great but it was also much hotter and more humid than we had anticipated--especially in kyoto. we probably did about 65-70% of what we would have in cooler weather. luckily, with the exception of one day in tokyo we didn't see much rain but boy, was it humid. i'd thought that being from delhi i would be fine but, of course, when in delhi in the summer (which now starts in march and runs through late october), i'm only in the heat/humidity for the time it takes to get into a car and then get from the car to a restaurant or store. in japan we were walking 20,000 steps a day.
our sightseeing in kyoto was guided by colleagues in art history and religion who work in kyoto regularly (and one japanese colleague who was just finishing up a year of teaching at a univ. in kyoto). they all warned us away from a few of the more iconic sites on account of the crowds and told us to go to all the shrines/temples as early as possible. we still went up and down fushimi inari and went to kiyomizu-dera. we started the fushimi inari climb at 7.15 am and it was not busy at all on the way up; the base was a zoo when we came down 90 minutes later. alas, we didn't make it to kiyomizu-dera till 9 am and it was already quite zoo-like. still glad we went though. the stunning tofuku-ji complex was absolutely empty, on the other hand. the tourist horde apparently doesn't care about it till fall foliage season. sanjusangendo was likewise deserted though in that case it's hard to explain why as it's indoors (and is neither remote nor takes very long to get through).
the food was as good as we had expected/hoped. we mostly used tabelog to figure out all our meals. we didn't do anything fancy and it was still mostly all very good (from udon at haneda to a low-stakes omakase in nihonbashi). we ate some very good ramen in tokyo and very good low-mid tier sushi (all of which in the u.s would have cost 4-5x as much, from the meal where we paid $55 for all four of us to the meal in which we paid $250 for all four of us). and we ate a few other things besides. didn't notice any anti-foreigner feeling in tokyo but kyoto was more of a mixed bag (especially at a sushi restaurant where we were treated with a mix of disdain and amusement). well, i guess we tourists are to blame: we've completely overrun the place and the feelings of residents are naturally mixed, given that they also depend on the tourist trade.
if so inclined, you can read my reports on our tokyo meals here (haven't got around to posting the kyoto meals yet). as noted before, we didn't try to eat anywhere that would have required a special handshake/introduction. though we did almost take a japanese food writer up on an introduction to a kaiseki restaurant before deciding that the boys would probably not eat about 25% of the food. in retrospect we may have underestimated them: at the omakase in tokyo they ate every single thing, including the lightly pickled eggplant that even i was not crazy about. well, there's a 50-50 chance right now that we might go back again for a week next june (this time earlier in the month) and if so, we'll go one level up for an omakase and to the kaiseki place.
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yeah, no lines or rao's for us. people line up to look at me, not the other way around.
i am giving hearth strong consideration--have to admit though that on the basis of currently posted menus, foul witch looks more compelling. and the resy tasting table thing for foul witch is in a listicle they have of 25 tasting menus in nyc. apparently, it's by request but it's not clear if that request needs to be made with the booking or can be made at the restaurant. the same article includes hearth's family-style meal (nine dishes, four courses for $95/head): anyone know if this is just dishes from the regular menu presented in a different format or a separate thing? i would guess the former.
via carota also looks good, i have to say.
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the missus and i will be in nyc in mid-october for a few days. as we wait to learn whether foxface will be open again by then, i am looking around for backup options for dinner. italian seems like a good bet. we'd like to spend less than $100/head on the food. ignoring the question of reservation availability, which are the places you'd recommend? preference given to places that are consistent over places which might have higher highs but also the real possibility of misfires.
resy currently shows me lots of tables available at foul witch in mid-late september (which suggests we won't have trouble a month later) and prices seem in the ballpark (not listed on their site but actual menu pics are available on yelp). are they still good?
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the whole world got tapas first.
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when it happens in japan, it's cosmpolitanism. when it happens in mexico, it's colonialism. those poor mexicans: absolutely without agency.
of course, the article tries to have it both ways.
the priya krishna/melissa clark thread
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ah, priya krishna and her family!