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  1. Mark Slater
    I think the trend for "trophy wine lists" is ending due to the astronomical costs associated with them. Having managed both kind of wine lists, I can tell you that a well laid out micro list is much more consumer friendly. Not having to describe the differences between 15 different wines from the same place cuts down on the time at the table. To Jake, talking about halcyon days, when I worked at the Watergate in the mid 80's : 1979 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild $100, 1978 August Clape Cornas $18, 1983 Meursault-Charmes Hospice de Beaune $35. The good old days.
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    I was in class in the third grade that day. I won't ever forget it.
  3. Mark Slater
    Also from Chile.
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    Ann Cashion makes a killer gumbo at Johnny's Halfshell.
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    Funny that I just came across this. The dish was a fricassee of fresh snails, sweetbreads and mushrooms. The dish was risky because it was a salt magnet. J-L had a notoriously heavy hand with salt. It was always hilarious when the live snails were delivered. We would find snails on the walls and ceiling of the kitchen.
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    Trader Joe's has good cheese prices. There are some oddities, though. I bought some sliced Swiss cheese last week and tried to make a Chicken Cordon Bleu. The cheese doesn't melt. How weird is that?
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    I had a jury duty lunch there a few years ago. As is typical in all of Mr. Bajaj's restaurants, all the food was in front of me in under 10 minutes.
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    But, Spinal Tap?
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    I had a really stellar lunch alone at Restaurant Michel Rostang, last time I was in Paris. He has a really cool bistro around the corner on rue Flaubert called Bistro d'a Cote. I'm pretty sure you can have Saturday lunch there. It has a fine wine list. I also love for lunch the Bar a Huitres on Avenue Wagram.
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    Try one of the famous hotels. My favorite is Le Bristol. De Crillon or Plaza Athenée also. Brunch is still a foreign concept in Europe.
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    Definitely a step up from Harry's. Best? It is certainly right up at the top. It didn't have that corporate feel that Capital Grille and Morton's have.
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    I had a superlative dinner here this week. We ate upstairs in the formal dining room. The noise level was low making it easy to converse. There was the obligatory TV pundit sighting, marking this as one of the power spots in town. I'll confess that was dining with the GM, Michael Sternberg, but watching other tables in the room, I could see that everyone else seemed to be as well taken care as we were. We began with raw bar- mussels, oysters and clams. Outstanding. Next, warm lobster salad could not have been better. It was lightly dressed and perfectly poached. Rare has an extensive dry aging program and all the steaks seem to have between 21 to 45 and more days of age. I chose the rib cap steak (the only steak on the menu not dry aged because of the texture of the meat) with Molly Sauce (hollandaise with mushroom duxelles folded in) that may have been the best steak I've eaten in many years. Michaael brought some 40+ year old Cote Roties which were interesting and good accompaniments to the steaks. At that age, the wines shed their weight and show off an interesting delicacy. I only made it half way through my steak as all the cuts are generous. It was still delicious the next day with scrambled eggs. I finished with chocolate pot de crème, which I could also not finish. The service was genial, very well informed and attentive. I really like this place.
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    Bistro d'a Cote, rue Flaubert by Michel Rostang.
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    Ryan Sutton really didn't like this place. "Bluebird Is Mall Dining at its Worst" by Ryan Sutton on ny.eater.com
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    Freeze it.
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    I took the BestBus last year. Its the "expensive one", $30. Their gimmick is they give you a free bottle of water when boarding. They drop you a block from Penn Station. In my case, they dropped us right in the middle of a crowd of ComicCon people- blue and pink people. It occurred to me, being from New York, that this was not out of the ordinary for the city. I thought about tourists from the Midwest coming to Manhattan for the first time and their reaction to this craziness.
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    New Yorkers call it "The Garden"
  19. Mark Slater
    I believe Also translates as Thus.
  20. Mark Slater
    Is that a viable excuse?
  21. Mark Slater
    I read this article and was kind of surprised when she laid out this gay agenda. As a gay man, I could have been sympathetic, but I wasn't . Why does being gay have to define someone? It's one facet of a life.
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    This is a fun article. Ramen tacos? Poutine tacos? That sounds really crazy.
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    I laughed out loud when he said this: And he was a man of such great humility, those who travel the high road of humility in Washington, D.C., are not bothered by heavy traffic.
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    Buttercream Bake Shop has them everyday. They call them Queen B. They go quickly.
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    https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=boy+die+holle+racht&&view=detail&mid=1DCBC736F4A01B0BF0E81DCBC736F4A01B0BF0E8&&FORM=VRDGAR little kid nails Die Holle Racht (The Queen of the Night's first aria)
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