New York City Restaurants

yall did good work on it!

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Are you a vegan or vegetarian? It’s surrounded on all sides by braised beef with a tremendously delicious rub on it, and the meat just falls off the bone. It’s pretty spectacular and you can just pull chunks off with chop sticks. I’m salivating just thinking about going round 2 with it.

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I’ve eaten a lot of wild and farm raised quail and prefer a BBQ crispy quail to the Vietnamese presentation at Vo, but it was still quit delicious with the little salt pepper dipping rub.

Maybe a philistine, but not vegan or vegetarian. Just not to my taste.

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Same vibes

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I used some of the leftover beef shank as a ragu with egg noodles, for the three of us for dinner tonight. There’s still a 1.25-pound portion of beef remaining!

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Au Passage popup at Margot this week. Has anyone gone yet? I have oppty to go tomorrow eve.

The current menu at Gem is just wonderful. I have eaten there twice this week. I love this place so much. And even moreso because every table has wine on it!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C76QIDbh1HH/?img_index=1

Took my son to Sanyuu West in Chelsea for his 11th birthday. At $78 pp a very decent omakase with a couple of premium gems (otoro with caviar and gold leaf, and charred salmon with foie gras and truffles).

Dinner experience was greatly enhanced by the commentary of a budding restaurant critic.

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Haven’t been in a while, but returned yesterday with a friend.

Forgot how good this place is, especially considering than vegetarian and vegan are not my favored nations.

Not a bad dish on the menu. Lettuce rolls were a standout. Nothing felt repetitive.

Dessert was very impressive. I would swing by just for one of these. The frangipane tart was absolutely scrumptious: rich and salty, but balanced. The forest strawberries - perfectly ripe and syrupy and herbed (micro basil and sesame sorbet).

The wine offering is lacking.

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Yoshino, NYC
I was fortunate to be treated by my daughter Danielle (with Sake selection by my son).
This was truly an unreal experience. The chef was amazing and most certainly loved his job. Maybe even a little bit of ham from time to time but it all makes for an amazing experience and a birthday dinner that will be hard to surpass in the balance of my life on earth. The dishes just kept coming but the showstopper was an egg custard with grated imported Italian bottarga that I didn’t want to end. Additional images available, just ask.

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https://www.pobega.com/yoshino

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What amazing Birthday gift. I think Yoshino might possibly be the best restaurant in the U.S.

surprised this hasn’t been mentioned:

pretty straightforward; any 3rd party site that lists reservations for sale that doesn’t have a direct relationship with the restaurant violates the law.

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Wow! Who lobbied our spiritual leaders to pass a bill like that so quickly? I wasn’t under the impression Manhattan restaurants cared so much? I assume restaurants aren’t hurt by this bill (the sought after seats still get filled) and there will be greater migration to a Dorsia type partnership (guaranteeing a minimum spend = a reservation)?

it was added to an existing bill that dealt with food delivery platforms.

for the very small number of restaurants this affects, yes, the correct way to handle is essentially surge pricing for certain tables.

by “correct” i mean transparent to the diner and controlled in a manner desired by the restaurant, as they see fit.

This would have been really helpful a couple weeks ago when I was trying to snag an Atomix and Tatiana reservation! haha

this law won’t make it easier to get those reservations. it merely attempts to outlaw middleman economics that don’t provide value to the restaurant.

this law is pro-restaurant. and it’s anti- a very tiny subset of diner willing to pay premium fees to a 3rd party, which no one cares about.

what this should result in is better tooling for restaurants to capture this themselves. it’s kinda weird that resy and opentable don’t have this as a feature, especially given the fact they would make a few % on it. I suppose that while this issue dominates food blogs, etc., the totality of the problem is limited to a few dozen restaurants at best. So not a priority.

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Had an extraordinary culinary day in NYC. We started the day at 10 a.m. with Japanese breakfast at Odo.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C79lAijBz3-/

We followed this with some day drinking and snacks at Parcelle which is just a lovely place to meet people at odd hours on Saturday as they are open from 1:00 on.

Dinner was at Ilis to celebrate a friends Birthday. I suggested this spot so I was a bit nervous. Well they delivered. Everyone in our group loved it! It is our third meal here and it is now officially in our rotation. The wine list and wine team is excellent, one of the best in the city.

We followed Ilis with the most difficult reservation in NYC a reservation for Pizza at Chrissys! BOOM! Wow did this live up to the hype! It immediately rose with a bullet to #2 on my NYC area pizza ranking!

Up next is the Fox Face Birthday party at 4…no rest for the wicked!

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It will also help with the problem of massive cancellations from the people who try to sell reservations and then cancel 24 hours before which is a royal pain for restaurants.

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Yes I agree it’s pro-restaurant.

Through that specific problem has been somewhat mitigated by cancelation fees. Not a perfect solution of course. No call, no show predates the reservation scalping era.