the priya krishna/melissa clark thread

[Diancecht]

it’s too bad this was an april fool’s joke

[Diancecht]

i feel like i am reading a gussied up version of eater

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“Food, service and design are the holy trinity,” he said. “You need to have two out of three. You don’t need to have all three.”

Edited April 10, 2025 by Diancecht

[MitchW]

Well, we here on this board were certainly talking about how going out to dinner was basically the night's entertainment. The thing is, we were talking about that 15 years ago.

[MitchW]

I think this article, not writ by anyone in this thread's tile, is quite a bit more interesting:

Where Will We Eat When the Middle-Class Restaurant Is Gone?

It also has some cool pictures!

[small h]

Hey, remember when Tao opened? A quarter century ago? Neither does Priya Krishna.

[MitchW]

1 hour ago, small h said:

Hey, remember when Tao opened? A quarter century ago? Neither does Priya Krishna.

I do.  Or Jean Georges place over in the meat packing district (the name I forget). 

[MitchW]

1 hour ago, small h said:

Hey, remember when Tao opened? A quarter century ago? Neither does Priya Krishna.

Was Priya alive a quarter century ago?

[small h]

6 minutes ago, MitchW said:

(the name I forget). 

Spice Market.

6 minutes ago, MitchW said:

Was Priya alive a quarter century ago?

Is she alive now, is the real question.

[MitchW]

Yep, Spice Market.  It had nothing at all to do with decor.

[Wilfrid]

13 hours ago, Diancecht said:

i feel like i am reading a gussied up version of eater

click

“Food, service and design are the holy trinity,” he said. “You need to have two out of three. You don’t need to have all three.”

"(P)rimarily... food with ambience, service and price taken into consideration." NYT 101. And better than the quote above.

[Wilfrid]

1 hour ago, MitchW said:

Yep, Spice Market.  It had nothing at all to do with decor.

And it depends what you mean by decor/ambience, even service. Roberta's was like someone's garage with non-matching furniture and pretty random service and drinks served in jars. That, apparently, was the point and greatly added to its appeal.

[backyardchef]

13 hours ago, Diancecht said:

i feel like i am reading a gussied up version of eater

click

“Food, service and design are the holy trinity,” he said. “You need to have two out of three. You don’t need to have all three.”

I don't care much about design. Food and service are far more important. 

[voyager]

Phrased otherwise, I will gladly patronize a restaurant with mediocre interior design, but not mediocre food.  

[small h]

I stopped in to the Pok Pok Ny pop-up at Superiority Burger and decided to do some interior design work. Whattaya think? Papa San level?

[StephanieL]

22 hours ago, voyager said:

Phrased otherwise, I will gladly patronize a restaurant with mediocre interior design, but not mediocre food.  

Me too!  All I care about is that the place is clean and I can hear my dining companion.

[Simon]

"I realized that this glamorous hot spot was in fact just a front for a piercingly intelligent and original restaurant, with a kitchen whose dexterity and finesse handily outshone the dining room’s influencer glow. A meal at Bridges can feel like discovering that your hot date also has a sizzling wit and a Ph.D."  🤢

[backyardchef]

25 minutes ago, Simon said:

"I realized that this glamorous hot spot was in fact just a front for a piercingly intelligent and original restaurant, with a kitchen whose dexterity and finesse handily outshone the dining room’s influencer glow. A meal at Bridges can feel like discovering that your hot date also has a sizzling wit and a Ph.D."  🤢

😱

[small h]

8 minutes ago, backyardchef said:

your hot date also has a sizzling wit and a Ph.D.

I was there with my dad in January. He has a PhD, so this partly checks out.

[Wilfrid]

I have a PhD and am therefore a hot date. Surely. 

[Diancecht]

this article would not be out of place on either eater or grub street 

What happens when a restaurant has no refrigerator?

 

[Wilfrid]

Whether you liked Shopsin's or not there was something remarkable about serving maybe 100 dishes from a kitchen the size of a child's wardrobe.

[backyardchef]

15 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Whether you liked Shopsin's or not there was something remarkable about serving maybe 100 dishes from a kitchen the size of a child's wardrobe.

Put me in the love camp. Kenny's book is great, too. 

[GerryOlds2TheReturnofGerry]

Same. I haven't read his book, but this post reminded me of the documentary about him, "I Like Killing Flies." Looks like it was on Netflix at one point.

[backyardchef]

51 minutes ago, GerryOlds2TheReturnofGerry said:

Same. I haven't read his book, but this post reminded me of the documentary about him, "I Like Killing Flies." Looks like it was on Netflix at one point.

The documentary is also fantastic. Kenny was a huge influence on me as a chef. I didn't necessarily want to emulate him, but his creativity and ingenuity stood out to me as I figured out my path. Shopsins was a place where my father, brother and I often communed. My father and Kenny would trade cantankerous old man patter until Kenny napped in a chair beside our table. Good times. Good eats.  

[Diancecht]

20 hours ago, Wilfrid said:

Whether you liked Shopsin's or not there was something remarkable about serving maybe 100 dishes from a kitchen the size of a child's wardrobe.

we might need to make a pit stop there during an upcoming trip