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  1. Mark Slater
    I always liked the Milanese Cutlet.
  2. Mark Slater
    It's gate C at Dulles. Always fun to visit before a flight to France.
  3. Mark Slater
    CVS/Caremark is already the prescription arm of Blue Cross/Blue Shield. This could be really important.
  4. Mark Slater
    That is seriously a lot of money.
  5. Mark Slater
    Julien, you are so good at this. Thanks!!
  6. Mark Slater
    He was one of the few singers I've seen and heard that I would call "exciting". He was visually arresting and vocally unbelievable. His acting in the Met DVD production of Verdi's Il Trovatore is nothing short of amazing. Here is a clip of my favorite trio in the opera: Turn up the volume .It's all beautiful, the real fun starts around 5:00
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    For what it's worth, restaurants in hotels usually pay far better than chains or single owner businesses. Union hotels, especially. In DC, hotel line cooks generally make between $16-18 hour, while privately owned restaurants are usually in the $11-13 an hour range. When Michel Richard opened his restaurant in the Palace Hotel in Manhattan, their union had negotiated wages that were 3 times that. $36 an hour dishwashers, $30 an hour line cooks.
  8. Mark Slater
    This has been happening for a while. Unfortunately, the corporate response has been to buy all the craft producers they can.
  9. Mark Slater
    Scrambled eggs with onions and smoked sturgeon. Yum
  10. Mark Slater
    Hop in a taxi and hit Barney Greengrass in UWS.
  11. Mark Slater
    Sorry, the Google machine told me the old address of Old Town Hamburger Hamlet was 109 S Asaph St. I forgot the connection with Portners.
  12. Mark Slater
    Owned by.... wait for it.......Amazon!
  13. Mark Slater
    That address was the Old Town Hamburger Hamlet.
  14. Mark Slater
    Just for fun, look at LeBron's Instagram account "KingJames". This dude drinks some serious wine.
  15. Mark Slater
    This seems to be everywhere. My last job did weekly inventory. Because everything these days is a phone app, they run what's called a theoretical inventory that gets compared to the actual inventory. Every Friday would be a blizzard of emails questioning every count (You are missing 305 tea bags!!), missing 1/8 of a keg. Truly a waste of time.
  16. Mark Slater
    really the only thing I liked at the Georgetown La Madaleine were the raspberry croissants at breakfast.
  17. Mark Slater
    Remember that Jack Webb's most consistent quirk is that he always wore red socks.
  18. Mark Slater
    The Georgetown location had uniformly terrible service and food, yet always had people in it.
  19. Mark Slater
    I recently walked past the old Georgetown location. Demolished.
  20. Mark Slater
    Gun owner's insurance. Like automobile liability insurance. Let the insurance companies decide who is insurable. No insurance, no gun.
  21. Mark Slater
    Reading it in the post is so unsettling. This will become remembered as the "Thin Skin Administration"
  22. Mark Slater
    Daily Grill has a much larger menu. Pizza to surf&turf
  23. Mark Slater
    One of the first things you learn in the wine biz is that bad wine doesn't get better with age. I'm sure the residual sugar would preserve this wine from Brooklyn's oldest winery for a long time.
  24. Mark Slater
    That's not a good sign. Wet basement is the definition of TCA.
  25. Mark Slater
    At the risk of sounding like a wine snob, I have to say, when I worked at the Watergate Hotel in the 1980's, I got to taste some amazing old wines. The wine that provided me with my first "Aha" moment in Burgundy was a 1949 Doctor Barolet Latricieres- Chambertin. It was like nothing I had ever encountered before. Forward and utterly delicious, smooth, deep, fragrant. I was floored. The flat out oldest wine I was able to taste: Chateau Margaux 1903. The best tasting old wine I ever tasted: 1945 Mouton-Rothschild. A fun book to look for is Michael Broadbent's Great Vintage Wine Book. As a famous wine auctioneer, his book has tasting notes on wine back to THE 18TH CENTURY. If you need to know the tasting notes for Chateau Lafite 1874, this is your book.
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