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The Diet Begin's......
Ten Sustenance Food Awards 2003
#1 NYC Meal and Best New Restaurant.....wd~50
#1 Meal for 2003....Passadis Del Pep
#1 Lunch Spot and Place Most Likely to get a
Free Glass of Coche Dury.....Washington Park
#1 Japanese.....Kai
#1 Italian.....Al Di La
#1 Fried Food......Uglesich's
#1 Chinese....TIE (GSIM and 66)
#1 Viet Food NYC.....Bao Noodles
#1 Viet Food Outside of Vietnam....Slanted Door
#1 Place to get badly talked about behind my back
by the chef but still keep going back.....Wallse
Globe All
Passadis Del Pep (Barcelona) 4*
Varoulko (Athens) 4*
Slanted Door (SF) 3*
Carballeira (Lleida, Spain) 3*
Uglesich's (New Orleans) 3*
#9 Park (Boston) 3*
El Torreone (Torrisellas, Spain) 2*
Asados Nazareno (Roa, Spain) 2*
Frankie & Johnny's (New Orleans) 2*
O Loutros Fish Taverna (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2*
Botafumeiro (Barcelona) 2*
Loc All Top 12
wd50 4*
Kai 4*
Wallse 4*
Jean George 4*
Al Di La 3*
Locanda Vini Olii 3*
Fleur de Sel 3*
66 3*
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 3*
Gramercy Tavern 3*
Bao Noodles 3*
Tasting Room 2*
66 for Sunday lunch, no crowds, no slinky models so I could focus on the food, and they could focus on me, yahoo again!!
so happy the end is near, for i was near the end....
NYTimes 3* tonight and it was my #1 dis(h)apointment for 2003,
service the pits, i cant even say how much i am unhappy with the food....
diet begin's at the end of a 66 lunch, sunday 9/28....
SFA Wards Soon....
360 in redhook
Bao Noodles on 391 2nd Ave was fantastic, tried 12 dishes inc a free fresh shrimp dish, all very authentic, all clean, best Viet food NYC has ever had IMHO....3*.....cold has won but strangly its not effecting my taste, just my energy....
this is supposed to me my last week pre diet. tonight at Kai was super again, the crew left with huge smiles, i fought the cold till the end, but I bet it wins tommorow.....action packed week may have to be cut back....
so la cote basque is closing next year. i've never eaten there. worth a trip just to see how the old school did it?
#12 at wd~50 was almost all new, two tasters of item's to come both fish both full on yummy, had the new lamb for the 2nd time and the new squab yah baby!!, 4 new desserts....so after 5 to 6 months open, still plenty to eat even for a frequent eater, rock on wylie, sam and team.....
ate some NJ food this weekend, very nice hoggie's and a tasty cheese steak sandwich, a place called Smittie's (sp?) had some tasty fry slaw etc the motto on the cute server girls shit read "You cant lick out clam's".....
what dig med tree'er who works as a care taker for a friend who's victorian home (which isnt victorian) is mentioned in this nyt foodestate article?
I and everybody I talk to love Daisy May's BBQ, 623 11th Ave @46th St......
The End Is Near: Skinny has been told by his doctor that not only does he need electric shock therepy and re-hydration of the liver (two things he can deal with) but his cholesterol is in a bad way, "pick one either diet/exersice or drugs", Skinny is going for #1 SOON, the end is near.........
The Green Market was alive with melons, I love this one farmers yellow watermelons and thier arrival had me happy.....made my 5 ingredient Watermelon Mint Soup: Yellow Watermelon, Chocolate Mint, Shallot, Salt, Cherry Tomato (but from one farmer whom I adore)......medium melon seeded and with some mint in blender, chilled, on top add many halfed cherry tomato, sprinkle shallot, salt, than SLURP....I have thought of poshed up versions with herb oils or a more chunky version with crab meat, but have never made, next year??
After eating all over Manhattan there is no way GSI Midtown is not 3*
Qwik notes:
Pier 116 at 116 Smith, great beer and fried chicken!!!
LoZoo: delish, to me no Grand Sichuan but very good indead...1*
Lunch at Gramercy Tavern was only 4 app's but all were 3*
Craft: I have only now been to CraftBar for a beer and a delish sandwich,
but the scope of what he is doing is "holy shit",
did they yet rename that part of 19th Craft St??
Off to the market.....
Had dinner last night at the new Twilight 101. This is Christopher "el teddy" Chestnut's new place in the old Texarcana spot on 10th between 5th and 6th. Only the bar area is open now (including a couple of tables) but the full 80 to 90 seat back room will be open in "about a month."
Mediterranean tapas menu. Wines from Spain, France, and Italy produced within 100 miles of the sea. Everything we had was simple and good. Same with the moderately priced list (all available by the glass as well.) The room has a nice feel with lots of little details. Very enthusiastic staff. Great spot for a drink and small bite (or more) of food. Worth a look I think.
I had 3.5 hours in Boston that was not in the previous plan so sadly I didnt bring my "places I want to eat notes"....
I had yet to try Todd English's Kingfish Hall, and it was close to the train station so I started there. Damn awesome "Fat Belly Clams" and a glass of Gruner, followed by a dish of melon in a sweet, spicy curry soup, on top was placed crab, herbs like cilantro, mint, basil and toasted coconut!! Super with a German Riesling, great summer dish.
Next stop was the North End, I had never been (not to see Paul Revere's house nor the birthplace of my Grandma in 1901) so I wandered all over, its so much more beatiful than NYC and smells better also. Lines at every restaurant, and they had no bars, so no seats for me. Next I stumbled on a Patron Saint festival, very cool, music, people pining dollars on it. After an amaro and a biera, I went to the most poshed up place (with a nice menu, whom were turning people away) and asked if they had a bar for a single person, "No but we have a wierd table no one wants" (it was the worst table but fine for me) I ordered fresh fava beans and pecorino, that came poshed up in a cone of fried parma cheese, than crab cannelloni with corn, onion, cream sauce etc. Both very good, I would not go back cause I would try some other small place, but Mamma Maria was nice to me...
Last stop Chinatown for dessert, a Tsing Tao.
Had my secong meal at Applebee's (in MA) this year and while it gets no stars its not as bad as I thought it would be.
I had to eat there cause it was late and was close to the hospital my mom is in, she has been not great lately (doesnt eat well and every once in a while wrestle's with a 1.75L plastic bottle of distilled grain) plus was stung by a wasp Saturday to which she is very allergic.
She wandered up to the Emergency Room, screamed to everyone about angels and started talking to my deseased father before passing out cold on the floor.
The hospital is very close and before they expanded many years ago, deer roamed between it and my house. There is a stream between us that had crayfish when I was very young, I sadly never ate them, just liked to play with them. Back in the day the bigger streams had Horned Pout (Catfish).
Now we have Applebee's, Longhorn, one very polluted stream and the best hospital for miles around.