tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71713262024-03-07T01:46:55.599-05:00Steady Mobbin'Steady Mobbin' is not just the name of this blog /but a way of lifeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2538125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171326.post-538516069257205182015-05-31T11:25:00.000-04:002015-05-31T11:25:59.770-04:00Best Redirect<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm trying out something new.</div>
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For the next year I'll be blogging at <a href="http://brigham-barnes.com/">brigham-barnes.com</a></div>
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Greg and Becky came to visit me, and this is my report.</div>
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They arrived early one Wednesday morning, I hugged them and explained how to use the kitchen faucet and then ran off to work. Many hours later we met at the Noodle Bar.</div>
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Rice cakes, roast chicken, and bonito.</div>
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The meat-free hozon ramen.</div>
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And the chilled spicy noodles.</div>
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Dessert: a s'more-o cookie, candy apple cake balls, and trail mix soft serve. The ice cream tasted like nuts and raisins! Raisins!</div>
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Thursday night we took a break from hanging out and I went to my baseball game for the year.</div>
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Friday I took a long lunch to go out and meet them at Roberta's. It had been so long since my last Roberta's!</div>
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We got a meatball pizza called the Meatwad. I just laughed and laughed to get a pizza called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eZV78dZs0s">the Meatwad.</a></div>
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Our other pizza was called the Little Stinker. Lots of onion and garlic.</div>
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Ordered a celery root dish as well.</div>
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Getting a good look at that painting of two pizza cowboys.</div>
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And a good look at the main room.</div>
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Bushwick's gigantic Daredevil mural.</div>
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It's me!</div>
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Saturday morning we went to the Pop Up Flea.</div>
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That night I met up with them and Katrina (and later Andrea) at Coney Island because I had gotten hung up on the idea of riding on the Wonder Wheel.</div>
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A tiny bit of additional Coney Island exploring would precede our Wonder Wheel ride.</div>
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Finally! Wonder Wheel time! I went on this once in 2008, recognized the principles of the Wonder Wheel at play with the California Adventure Ferris Wheel, and just think it's great. Here's the thing: Coney Island isn't so bad, it's actually pretty cool, and the Wonder Wheel is probably my favorite thing about it, even though I've only been on it twice.</div>
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Faces of Wonderment.</div>
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Wonderment in action!</div>
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Thrilled disembarkers.</div>
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A few weeks ago, to everyone's sadness, Mission Cantina stopped serving daily Vietnamese breakfast to replace it with Mexican breakfast on weekends. The Vietnamese breakfast was delicious, it was a bummer to see such an unique option go. But guess what? This Mexican breakfast is so good. Slap the table good. That good.<br />
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Greg and Becky and I walked over to Mission Cantina Sunday to be there right when it opened, just in case there was a Mother's Day brunch crowd or something.<br />
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Mission Cantina: When can I buy your logo on a t-shirt?<br />
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After giving the menu a good look and ordering ambitiously, I showed my visitors some cat videos on my phone.<br />
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Food began to arrive, I'll start with the superstars:<br />
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Check out this giant, dosa-looking quesadilla. In the inside? Cheese, giant chunks of avocado, and tons of tender beef cheek asada. Served with two fine salsas, this one goes on the Mission Cantina must list.<br />
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The best thing we had: these chilaquiles. Oh man. Usually when I see chilaquiles on a menu I'm like "ooh, chilaquiles, I love those" but then I keep moving and get something else. I'm so glad I did not pass up these ones, though. The trick is they're using what I took to be freshly fried thick and crisp homemade tortilla chips, tossed in an insanely good red sauce, topping it with crema, queso oaxaqieno, and avocado. Simple and perfect. I wish I could bring them to every other Mexican restaurant I go to and say: Here! Make me something just like these!<br />
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Also popping: Mission Cantina's baja-style fish tacos. I've had these before and I'm a fan.<br />
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Jowl bacon in habanero honey. Great to have on hand to make yourself a fish and bacon taco or have a bacon and beef cheek bite of quesadilla.<br />
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Our full spread, in the middle of being attacked. Note the crispy potatoes with lime yogurt by Becky's hand. Didn't get a satisfactory solo picture of those.<br />
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In summary: Mission Cantina done did it again with this breakfast menu. Just when I think I've been there enough and should give them a break, they pull me back in! Sign me up for three more rounds of Mexican Breakfast, sell t-shirts, and BRING BACK THE SMOKED PORK JOWL for dinner<br />
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Here's my face giving this meal my seal of approval.<br />
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After my birthday party I went home and went to bed and then I woke up and flew to Los Angeles. Mom and Owen and Stuart picked me up from the airport and were kind enough to humor my need to go to three Mexican places on the way home to Grandma's.</div>
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First we stopped at Mariscos Jalisco on Olympic in Boyle Heights for their famous shrimp tacos.</div>
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These are two of said shrimp tacos. They're deep friend in the shell (taco shell, not shrimp) and served covered in an avocado-studded salsa. Delicious!</div>
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Here's Owen.</div>
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The Mariscos Jalisco truck parks outside this little office building with seating inside if you don't feel like eating your Mexican seafood in the sun (or shade). There's also ladies inside there selling toys and candy.</div>
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On the tables: gigantic bottles of habanero salsa with charming copy.</div>
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Guerilla Tacos serves expensive fancy tacos befitting the hipster wonderland vibe of the neighborhood where they're found. Here's a few of their chorizo and Peruvian potato (<i>Peruvian</i> potato? That's not very Mexican!) with pickled onion tacos...very tasty, yes.</div>
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And here's a sweet potato and feta taco. Also good. Great tacos. Award-winning tacos, all around. But these ain't hip hop.</div>
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Vibes of the old neighborhood remain, though.</div>
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Mom's Tamales!</div>
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Chongqing Chicken fulfilling Owen's dreams of knowing what numbing spice is like.</div>
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Sunday afternoon we took our traditional walk over to Caltech.</div>
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So that was my trip to California. It was a great post-Birthday celebration, and I can't believe I probably ate more Asian food than Mexican. You just never know what strange turns your life is going to take!</div>
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It was full of M&Ms! Turns out it was a chocolate walnut tunnel of fudge bunt cake with the hole filled up with M&Ms topped with a chocolate dome. Amazing!</div>
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More partiers: Chaunte and Cory.</div>
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It was a great party! Thanks to all who came out and made my birthday dope. Apologies to partiers not pictured, or, I don't know. Depending on your feelings, "Your welcome" to the partiers not pictured.</div>
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You know what, I went to two other parties recently. Why not blog them here, too?</div>
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The Sunday before my birthday party was Chelsea's party, of course there was an awesome cake (it was a layered home made ice cream sandwich cake).</div>
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My corner of the party featured Whitney and Natalie.</div>
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Hello! I'd like to tell you about some things I've eaten over the last month-ish.</div>
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Several Saturdays ago I went out to Long Island City with Karrie and her mom...</div>
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Because Henry from my high school swim team has opened up a stand selling Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches on the weekend.</div>
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Maybe I was just starving, maybe I missed Johnnie's real bad, but this Italian beef knocked my socks off. Very impressed! His place is called Hank's Juicy Beef, go check it out!</div>
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And then a Sunday or two later I undertook a simple but ambitious task, to pan roast a chicken like my Sean Brock cookbook says to. First I woke up early and cut the backbone out of my chicken,</div>
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And used it to make my own stock...here's the boring part of stock making, where everything is in the pot before it has even started to simmer.</div>
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And then I cut the chicken in half and salt and peppered it.</div>
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The recipe called for cast iron pans, so I ran all over the city looking for a 12" pan, it proved a very difficult mission. So Victoria just ordered two on Amazon Prime and they showed up in time to make dinner. Here the chickens sit in the pans, pressed down by other pans, to get started in their cooking on the stove before moving to the oven for roasting.</div>
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Here's the chicken, crisped but not yet complete.</div>
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Andrea and Victoria came over for the chicken cooking. Here Andrea takes a break from whisking the pan sauce while Victoria roasts some Brussels sprouts.</div>
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And here we are: chicken all roasted, with parsley and garlic on top and pan sauce beneath. The recipe was simple, sort of, and the results spectacular. I will make this chicken again and I will do an even better job next time.</div>
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Dinner guests that are nuts about doing dishes and are good whiskers. What more could you ask for?</div>
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Well, I don't know, maybe $1 tacos? Mission Cantina began serving $1 tacos between 4 and 6pm, so I could not resist taking a super-long, super-late lunch one Thursday with Trish. I ate tacos and guacamole until I could not bear any more happiness and it cost me maybe $7. Incredible.</div>
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Then one Tuesday night I checked out the Happiest Burger at West Village bar the Happiest Hour with Chelsea. It's a real serious burger, just look at it! I bet it looks even better by daylight.</div>
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And then there was this Saturday where I met with Jessica at Underwest Donuts. It's a donut shop inside a car wash. </div>
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I mean it's literally inside the car wash, you can watch the cars go through while you order your donuts. What a perfect thing to watch and eat a donut to.</div>
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Unless, of course, it's a beautiful day out. Then it would be better to eat the donuts on a nearby pier.</div>
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While I was eating those donuts started getting friendly texts from a mysterious number...turns out Rebecca and Derek were in town! First I ate pizza with them on Claire's roof Saturday night, then Sunday I was lucky enough to grab burgers with them at the Burger Joint because they were staying at the Parker Meridian. </div>
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Then the next Tuesday I tried out Street Bird, this new Harlem hot spot, with Ashley. The place was jumping with long waits for tables but no waits for counters. People! Just sit at the counter!</div>
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The food was quite good, really liked the macaroni and cheese a lot.</div>
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Their main dish is their rotisserie chicken. But tell me, does this really look like half a chicken to you?</div>
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African fish tacos. They were just ok.</div>
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And then on Saturday I ate what I'm going to call a Lebanese quesadilla from this place Manousheh on Bleecker. Really great. Middle Eastern food is having a moment, isn't it?</div>
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Then on Sunday I made cheeseburgers on my cast iron pan. This is a thing I'm going to keep working at, making cheeseburgers. And then I'm going to start having people over every Sunday night for burgers. I typed it and I posted it so you've got to hold me to it!</div>
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Instead of tater tots I had broccoli. That will be the thing: cheeseburgers with a roasted vegetable at Brigham's.</div>
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Here's some 2015 stuff worth sharing that I haven't shared yet.</div>
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At the beginning of the year old roommate Nate brought Megan, his bride, to New York and I met up with them and Brent at Mighty Quinn's in the West Village. It was Fresh.</div>
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This is a cheeseburger. At Joe Junior's. Eaten with Chelsea and Brenda.</div>
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I made my own pork-lemongrass sausage and gave a shot at replicating one of the Vietnamese Breakfast dishes from Mission Cantina. Although there is too much white on this plate I promise it was good.</div>
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Remember that trip I took to California?</div>
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There's still some stuff about it I haven't told you. Like how I met up with Lucas upon arrival and we ate at Pot.</div>
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And then sampled a burger from some new big deal burger place.</div>
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I spent night one in LA with the Mapps at the Magic Castle. My goodness. What a night. Hope to be sharing a lot more about it soon.</div>
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Twohey's for sundaes and such is a must.</div>
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Got back to New York with plenty of time left (days, really) to make it to Andy's birthday party. Best party of the year, every year, I always say.</div>
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Remember how savage winter seemed? All that cold and snow?</div>
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To tour the renovations of the United Palace Theatre</div>
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Another trip into Brooklyn, this time for Andrea's birthday</div>
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Spent a week and a half or maybe two weeks eating pizza nonstop. The results are <a href="http://luckypeach.com/the-quest-for-new-york-citys-most-adequate-dollar-slice/">HERE</a> but honestly I'd hoped you'd read them already.</div>
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Remember when Christian and I went to the All-Star Game? Turns out awesome new backpacks both full of NBA swag and full of NBA swag were a part of the deal. I can't wait to go on a trip and use mine!</div>
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Captured the decisive moment when these street badminton players realized they'd roofed their shuttlecock. What ever happened to stickball?</div>
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Last month Mom and Dad came to visit so we could eat. Dad also had meetings.</div>
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Wednesday night we went to Meadowsweet, a restaurant in Williamsburg. It's in the old Dressler space, and the chef is the original Dressler chef. This restaurant is a treasure for anyone that misses Dumont and Dressler.</div>
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I started off with an oyster. What kind of weirdo gets just one oyster? THIS kind of weirdo.</div>
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We shared a mushroom tagliatelle</div>
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And crispy baby artichokes, the same dish they used to have at Dumont. This one is a must, one of my favorite dishes in all of New York!</div>
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Sweet wallpaper, Meadowsweet.</div>
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Thursday night we had our dinner at Del Posto.</div>
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Friday night we saw A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Fun, but I expected more jokes.</div>
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Then Dad and I went to the Met to see La Donna del Lago. It had been a good long while since we last went to the Met together.</div>
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A favorite spot: the Ezio Pinza memorial water fountain.</div>
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It was a good opera. I don't know a lot of opera, but every now and then I can tell if it's kind of good. I've been to a lot of operas, though. I bet at least two dozen. I'm cultured!</div>
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Sunday morning we breakfasted at Cherche Midi. How do you pronounce that? Turns out it's kind of like saying "Sir Schmidty." I got us a reservation here just in case I didn't think of anywhere else to go, and I never did, so we went and guess what? It was a monster hit with mom!</div>
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<span class="s1">Last Thursday night (the second night they were in town) Mom and Dad and I ate at Del Posto, Mario Batali's giant next-level fine Italian dining castle on 10th Avenue. As online reviews of fancy restaurants tend to really split hairs and my <a href="http://briggie.blogspot.com/2014/11/best-annual-visit-that-sometimes.html">last fine dining experience</a> </span>was such a underwhelming let down I arrived a little worried about how the meal would go and that I might wear out my restaurant picking good will with Mom and Dad. </div>
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<span class="s1">Well I've got good news and I'll tell it to you right now: dinner was grand. And mom got to use her first purse stool. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">First of all, a word on the space: Del Posto is gigantic, with tons of space between each table. This is one of the tokens of fanciness: space. Thursday was one of those horribly snowy days of our late winter where the sidewalks hadn't been shoveled yet. It was a long trip of tiny shuffling steps for me to get to the restaurant from 8th avenue. But arriving at Del Posto I stepped into the dimly lit warmth of doors being opened and coats being taken and a patient staff standing just a few feet back until they were needed or until our party was complete. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">We were seated in a corner of the restaurant with a good view of all the goings on. They started our meal off with some amuses, the little cups were a lentil soup, and other two things? Really I don't remember exactly what they were...the balls were daikon rolled in pepper and cheese, I believe. And the little tubes? Can't remember. I think there was something olive oily about them. But each of these amusing little bites helped say "Hey, don't worry, you're going to like eating here."</span></div>
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<span class="s1">For my antipasti course I had the fin fish Crudo plate, five little bites of raw finned-fishes. Which fishes? Tuna was there, hamachi was there (isn't hamachi tuna? Dad asks, pulling out his phone to look it up on Wikipedia), Artic char was sitting in the middle with a generous dollop of Ossetia caviar sitting on top. (All the other fishes had some sort of complimentary topping ontop as well).</span></div>
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<span class="s1">So, in sum: Del Posto was very good. I did not need to worry about it. I totally recommend it. They've got a three course lunch special and I was looking at that lunch menu and saw a lot of the food we had for dinner on it, so in my imagination, at least, I see myself returning relatively soon for the Red Wattle Pork Trio and my biscotti party. You're coming too, right?</span></div>
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Because she's the best, and because she works for the Association, <a href="https://twitter.com/aubreyapproved">Aubrey</a> (you follow her on twitter, right? No? What? You hate clever?) gave me a couple of tickets to the rookies game during All-Star Weekend for me and Christian (my friend/kid I tutor) to use. </div>
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During the game Aubrey texted me that she was going to move us to a better spot at the half. I saw empty seats a few rows ahead of us and thought "Oh that's pretty cool." BUT actually what she meant was she had some courtside spots for us! Courtside!</div>
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Like sitting right behind these guys!</div>
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I was watching the game on the big screen instead of right in front of me most of the time. I couldn't help it.</div>
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The only person I saw that I recognized was Rick Fox. He must be a coach now or something.</div>
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On the left, way over on the left, there's my hands and nose! I was on TV all night.</div>
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I love basketball! When it's real close.</div>
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The sad Rich Get Richer truth is that if you're sitting court side it's pretty easy to score a t-shirt or mini-basketball when they're getting tossed out. </div>
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So when I went to California last month I spent that Friday night eating tacos with old New York friends, old college friends, and old friends who went to college the same time as me but I didn't meet until after college. </div>
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<span class="s1">Next we headed to south central to eat in the parking lot of a used tire store. Here we met up with the rest of our party, who I guess I don't have any pictures of yet. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Then we went around the corner and down the block to try out the Tortas Estillo DF Torta Wagon. Word was this was the place in LA to grab a Torta Cubana and, well, you know <a href="http://luckypeach.com/on-tortas-cubanas/">I always want my friends to know about Cubanas.</a></span></div>
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In that beanie: Former New Yorker Jenn, who I hadn't seen for a good number of years. Left hat: That's Keith, I get to see him every now and then. On the right: There's Cher, I'm fortunate to see her with a kind of regularity.</div>
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Watching them griddle up the Cubanas.</div>
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The finished product. Pretty dope. They had a lot of different giant Tortas by a lot of different national names, some of them tempted me with their ingredient combinations, but for a first visit, to the Cubana I had to be true.</div>
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After tortas we headed up to Leo's Tacos, a place I already know and love. I feel like it's the easy answer and that my experience is limited, but for the time being, this is my favorite taco spot in LA. I like the energy, I love the food, and I like the sense of "local taco truck hitting it big" there. </div>
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I didn't realize I was taking pictures of Keith and Jared over and over. Where's Chaz? Where's Mike? I don't know! I was too busy taking pictures of Keith and Jared!</div>
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One last glance at Leo.</div>
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One last stop: Drove up the street to El Chato, it was my first visit. I got their famed chicken quesadilla, I could only manage to take a few bites then but it was a great treat for my flight home to New York a couple of days later. Funny how El Chato is less than a mile up the road but the scene is totally different. Lot more people who are out on the town. </div>
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So it was a great late and long night of tacos and stuff. This is the way to live. Rolling around with your pals, eating and talking and laughing. (photo borrowed from Jenn's Instagram)</div>
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It's very worth mentioning that High School friend Lucas had given me the scoop on Taco Man, the tire shop, and Tortas DF. He's written about the last two for Eater <a href="http://la.eater.com/2014/10/15/6978491/tire-shop-taqueria-south-los-angeles-taco-stand-photos-review">here</a> and <a href="http://la.eater.com/2014/10/31/7139719/mexican-torta-super-tortas-df-south-la-dining-on-a-dime">here</a>. Check it out! He says more than I did and you can figure out the addresses from his post if you want to visit yourself and don't feel like googling <a href="https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=%22tire+store+tacos+Los+Angeles%22">"tire store tacos Los Angeles"</a>.</div>
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The week before last I flew out to California for a few days. I did a bunch of stuff, but a big thing I did was go to Disneyland with Collin. So this is a Disneyland post. In the past I've shown <a href="http://briggie.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-2000th-post_03.html">I can have a lot to say about Disneyland.</a> I'm going to try to keep things under control this time, but anything could happen.</div>
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Now here's the thing. I wasn't just going to Disneyland with Collin. Kristen was in town from Utah with Walker and Ellie because Ellie's dance group was going to be dancing at Disneyland. </div>
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And also my Mom was in town. So I was going to Disneyland with my mom, my sister, my niece and my nephew and Collin. And we weren't just going to Disneyland, for the first time ever I was Park Hoppin'! </div>
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We started the day with California Adventure because none of them had ever been there before and I<a href="http://briggie.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-always-better-on-holiday-vi-pt-2.html"> had been once.</a></div>
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But them Bam! It's time to go in. I had come up with what I thought was an ingenious plan of attack for California Adventure which involved Collin grabbing us Radiator Springs Racers fastpasses while Kristen dropped Ellie off at rehearsal and Walker, Mom and I got in line for Midway Mania--because Midway Mania is GREAT but does not have Fast Passes. Which is INSANE.</div>
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Walker and I rode together on Midway Mania. I am a late-bloomer in the delighting in the nieces and nephews game...ok, I mean, I always liked them, I always liked all of them, but of my siblings I've logged in the least amount of time as a present Aunt or Uncle because of New York but these last few years I've been putting in more time and making better impressions and ever since Walker jumped on my head a bunch the time I babysat him things have been going pretty well between us. So this means: Sat by Walker on a lot of rides. His choice. Word.</div>
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Anyway Midway Mania is super fun and everyone liked it and Collin had never been on it before and that's a shame but I'm glad I could give him something new that day (as he had just done Disneyland about 5 days before with Mallory for her birthday).</div>
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After Midway Mania: We walk over to the Tower of Terror where the line is very under control. And here's the thing: We think we can get Walker to go on it and Walker says he wants to go on it and there are other kids his age in line for it so we take Walker on it. He's 3. Close to 4. But 3.</div>
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Neither Mom nor Kristen had ever been on it either so many parties were not certain how this ride would go for them but everyone was able to channel their energies into telling walker "This is just pretend, this is all for fun, this is all for pretend" (except for, you know, the part where you fall 13 stories over and over again. That part is very real.)</div>
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I sat by Mom so we could watch Walker ride in front of us. He kept his cool and held hands very tight but from the back of his head it was clear he was wondering what we had gotten him into those spooky minutes before the drops start.</div>
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After Tower of Terror us grownups went and rode California Screamin' (this was the ride that Mom got brave for) while Kristen treated Walker to some cool-down rides in the Bugs Life little kid ride part of the park.</div>
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And then we met up again in the incredibly-themed Cars Land (it wasn't open the first time I went) to go use our Radiator Springs FastPasses.</div>
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At this point we were rejoined with Ellie as she had finished her dance rehearsal. They gave her ears at it. So this is an ears portrait. But Walker ruined it! Walker!!</div>
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All that stuff I was saying about Walker earlier applies to Ellie, too. I feel she gives me good uncle appreciation. I'M NOT SAYING BLAKE AND RACHEL DON'T! But they weren't there. Ellie was. And I felt appreciated as an uncle.</div>
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It's pretty remarkable and beautiful. Also, you know what? I don't think Cars was such a bad movie. Same with Cars 2. Not a bad movie.</div>
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I rode with Walker. When his sister was his age I rode with her. 3'ish/4'ish year old kids love going on Autopia with me!</div>
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See! (although the ride did begin with a pretty physical fight [NOT started by me!] over who would drive)</div>
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After Space Mountain we reunited with the group for Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean (both kids handled that ride real well but I sure had to answer a lot of questions about whether or not the pirates were mean), Thunder Mountain (which Walker rode with great enthusiasm and not a drop of fear)(the ride has a great new ending, too, by the way). Really I should've gotten some pictures from those two rides. Oh well. It had been a long day.</div>
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Then we went on the Casey Jr. Train (pretty crazy to have been at Disneyland all day long and not set foot in Fantasyland until the end of the day) and Collin and I rode Alice in Wonderland (because, you know, it had been a while. And I figured I should ride at least one Fantasyland dark ride)</div>
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Goodbye, Disneyland! Thanks for having me! </div>
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Here is my report on going home to Chicago for Christmas. In it you will hardly see anything having to do with Christmas and you will not see any pictures of me. It's just one of those kinds of Christmas reports.</div>
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I flew home to Chicago late the night before the night before Christmas Eve. Mom picked me up from Midway and took me straight to El Asador for some tacos. I had more than two.</div>
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At the restaurant I picked up this flyer for a Lucha Libre event coming up in Cicero. This is a very serious lineup...I saw Octagon and Mascara Sagrada wrestle in Mexico City. Fuerza Gerrera and Lizmark are big names, too. </div>
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Then on the day before Christmas Eve I had my teeth cleaned. And after that Mom and I went to Gene's & Jude's, a hot dog place I've been driving by since I was a kid. It was time to finally try it.</div>
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Every order is personally handled by the person you order from. They see your caddy full of hot dogs through from start to finish.</div>
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At home: Our Eagle sits on its perch once more.</div>
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Then on Christmas Eve it was time to eat at one of the best restaurants in the world...</div>
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Italian Beef and Sausage Combo with Hot Peppers. This is the realness.</div>
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Christmas Eve night we went down to the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago for their Christmas service. We've done this two years in a row now so I guess it's a family tradition. </div>
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Christmas Eve Dinner? Make your own tacos and taco salads and quesadillas and such! Perfect!</div>
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And then it was Christmas morning. We didn't go downstairs until almost 10! Everyone is growing up.</div>
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For Christmas dinner I captained the cooking of Korean Tacos, Cauliflower Tacos, Ma Po Tofu Chilidogs, Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Ginger Scallion Noodles, Roasted Corn in Miso Butter, Bacon Rice Cakes and...hmm, I think there was something else. Oh yeah! Smacked Cucumbers!</div>
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The day after Christmas I went to the Garfield Conservatory with Mom, Emily and Owen.</div>
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And then we saw this great play, "Looking Glass Alice", at the Water Tower. I'd never been in the Water Tower before.</div>
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Next night: Las Fuentes for dinner!!</div>
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I found an idea for a tattoo. Or just a decorating my apartment.</div>
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After church on Sunday all the kids that don't live in Chicago any more were like "Wow, did they make the parking lot bigger?" and the people that do live in Chicago were like "You already knew about this, it happened years ago."</div>
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For dinner my last night home? Roast Beef!</div>
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King of Dinners!!</div>
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I'm still borrowing people's glasses.</div>
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And still wearing my new jeans.</div>
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I changed apartments but stayed in my same building, here's my new kitchen being moved into</div>
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Here's my old kitchen just about moved all out of.</div>
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I have a question for artists: Is the likeness of a lion notoriously difficult to capture?</div>
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One very cold Saturday I went on a Church History walking tour of Lower Manhattan and at the very end learned that the whole tour is available online. For when you don't feel like freezing.</div>
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But that's ok because after the tour we all went and ate donuts at Trevor's apartment and he's got good views of other cool apartments. On the left you might see a little house on a roof? That house had chickens.</div>
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And speaking of Christmas, I went out to the Loew's Jersey Theatre to see It's a Wonderful Life.</div>
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I was there with all sorts of good people, want me to name two? Okay, easy. Ellen and Patricia. See? Wasn't hard to do.</div>
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Another Christmas celebration: Victoria's Birthday Christmas Cookie Party.</div>
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My Mickey Mouse cookie wound up a koala.</div>
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Here's a picture of all the partiers, even me. And even my roommate, too.</div>
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Oh! One other Christmas thing: Helped organize, set up and clean up a great big Christmas party at the Lincoln Square building. Here's my only photo. It's from when we were cleaning up.</div>
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Broken rice with lemongrass sausage. It's an interesting scene inside Mission Cantina at breakfast time. Everyone looks like they might be either a famous chef or food writer. </div>
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Also, big news, I've taken ownership of three Venus Flytraps. More on them much later in the year.</div>
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Ok, everybody. Don't forget to have a Merry Christmas (this is the tree in front of Andy's building. We had a Christmas party where we watched Despicable Me 2. Most people don't realize it's a Christmas movie.)</div>
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Time goes by so fast these days, let's turn back the clock and revisit Thanksgiving 2014! For the holiday I flew out west to celebrate in Utah and Idaho. First Celebration: Del Taco with my brothers late Monday night.</div>
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Then, chance internettings early Tuesday lead to lunch at 5 Star Barbecue in Orem with famed former-New Yorker Madi.</div>
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Wednesday things really got going when all us Brim descendants loaded up and headed for Downey, Idaho.</div>
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Brigham City Temple.<br />
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Visited with Aunt Linda when we got to Downey.</div>
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See that semi-feral stray cat?<br />
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Thanksgiving morning in Downey Idaho!</div>
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Family ran around on top of the hay bales because that's lots of fun to do.</div>
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Just before Cory stomped on Mom's head</div>
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And there's this picture from dinner. Walker chose to sit by me, but then let me know "Sometimes I like to sit by you and sometimes I don't."</div>
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Beautiful Downey. Time for a family photo and a post-dinner walk.</div>
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And at the end of our drive home: In n Out in Draper. I did not eat all of this. My eyes were bigger than my stomach.</div>
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Aaaaand for an additional dinner that night: I got family to come with me down to the Provo Don Joaquin's which, guess what, is STILL home to the best tacos I've ever had in the United States.</div>
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As usual, Don Joaquin puts me through a range of emotions, ending in anger over how delicious it is.<br />
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Sunday was my last day, full of around the house Sunday stuff. Blake lent me his room while I was there, there was this animal in there and I liked it.</div>
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<span class="s1">Our first night we are salads (not pictured) and then Andrew got a Burger Joint burger. </span></div>
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But the surprise winner of the night were these greens with a kimchi vinaigrette. Zingy!<br />
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<span class="s1">Then we started Saturday off at Parm, walked around in the rain, and then I got my first new pair of jeans in 5 years. 5 years!</span></div>
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Unfortunately, when I say "fine" I mean it in the "How was dinner?" "(shrug) It was fine." Nothing stood out, I thought the courses were going to build to something, but portions stayed small (or got smaller) and we left with shrugs. Or I should say we shrugged about half way down the block. It wasn't immediate. Oh well. Win some, ok some. </div>
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There's this chef named Enrique Olvera who runs this place called Pujol which is regarded as the best restaurant in Mexico City and one of the best restaurants in the world. And now he has opened a restaurant in New York and the food parts of the internet where very excited about its coming to be. I happened to be on the right blog at the right time and wound up making a reservation for Cosme's first official night open. Viviana joined me for the meal. And even though the restaurant is just a baby, I found it to be full operational. The staff and service was top notch and the food, as I will try to show you, really really good and fun.<br />
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But first, it's a very good looking restaurant. Kind of looks like you're eating in a high end design bookstore or something because of these shelves they have along the wall. The room is fairly dark, but a bright light hangs above each table, so diners experience some kind of cone of silence, magician's sanctuary, island of bright deliciousness in a sea of darkness eating experience.<br />
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They started us off with with just-fried tostadas and mustard.<br />
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Our first dish was Burrata and Weeds. <br />
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Mussel Tostada with Russian Salad<br />
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And this is the Cobia al Pastor with pineapple puree/salsa/whatever over there on the side. Fancy fish hitting all the flavor notes of my favorite street food. Incredible.<br />
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Now I had read from early diners that portions at Cosme were pretty small and that was true, but we ordered this thing, the Duck Carnitas for Two. It was not small. It was definitely Duck Carnitas for Three, maybe Four. But what it was was, I don't know, half a duck? slow roasted on the inside, crispy on the outside, that you tore apart and ate with tortillas and salsa. Basically a duck Bo Ssam, to borrow from the Momofuku vernacular. It was amazing. Viviana had a reasonable portion, I remained determined to see it finished off, so I ate way way more duck than I should have. And by "way way more duck than I should have" I mean "just the right amount."<br />
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Viviana patiently waits for me to eat the whole duck because I refuse to say die.<br />
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Having heard good things, finished off the meal with their Husk Meringue with Corn Mousse. The best corn-based dessert I've ever had. <br />
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Cosme is great. Word is reservations are booked into 2015, but they have space in front for walk-ins. I encourage you to walk in.<br />
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So there's this other chef, Alex Stupak, who has been finding great success in opening fine fancy Mexican restaurants in the West and East Villages and he just opened a super-casual place specializing in my favorite taco. One late night I found myself walking by, so in we had to go.<br />
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But here's my call on the place: Basically it's a crowded metal bar for non-metal people where you can order $4 tacos over in the corner. The namesake taco? It's fine. I was hoping it would be oversized at that price. Nope. But it's fine (certainly not Don Joaquin caliber). I probably won't be back soon. But that's okay because...<br />
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Mission Cantina—<br />
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Over a year ago I first ate at Mission Cantina a couple weeks before it opened, and while it was a rollicking meal, I felt no strong compulsion to return. But the day after my meal at Cosme, while I rolled around work with the regret of eating all that duck, I got an invite to meet friends there for lunch so I met friends there for lunch and you know what? That meal smacked me in the face and left me distracted. So I went back for dinner two or three nights later when Andrew was in town. And then I went again a week or so after that. So in two weeks I've eaten at Mission Cantina three times and I'm looking for an excuse to get there again. In other words: Mission Cantina has rocketed from a place I didn't figure I'd eat at again to a place I'm treating like it were the Ssam Bar in 2008/09.<br />
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One thing to start...I really dig the logo, hoping t-shirts become available.<br />
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Thanks to the restaurants colored lighting, food pictures there don't turn out so tasty looking, but this is their Smoked Pork jowl, super delicious fatty little pieces of pork sitting in a Thai-ish sauce with fried peanuts and lime leaves along with pickled green tomatoes. This, to me, is a lick the plate clean sort of dish.<br />
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Here is the tasty Avocado Sashimi, avocado pieces sitting in spicy honey with salmon roe. I had this a second time and the dish came topped with not tortilla crisps but a giant, crackling, just fried piece of chicharron. Or something I mistook for chicharron.<br />
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Andrew is in town. And Friday was Halloween. We tore my room apart trying to throw together last minute costumes for the parade. Look how torn apart the room got!</div>
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And then we hustled over through soho to meet up with amigos to march in the Halloween Parade. We knew we were in the right spot when we saw Stephanie and Lisa bounding down the street in their inflated ballerina costumes.</div>
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I found Andrew my old Ben Franklin wig and he made himself a Ben Franklin costume. Jess was a fashion photographer. Emily was dressed in black. Morgan was cool.</div>
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I got out my rock n roll outfit that I hadn't worn since 2004.</div>
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Tamara was Good Ol' Tamara. I'm just glad she came back to New York!</div>
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Alexis was an Aviatrix. Jon was Zorro, I presume.</div>
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Brook a Lichtenstein Girl.</div>
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Ben Franklin with Colette covered in Benjamins.</div>
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Crazy Coincidence: Trish realized she had met Andrew's parents while on a trip to Peru a year and a half ago. So here she is talking to his dad.</div>
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Emily as Anna Wintour.</div>
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Lined up, almost in the parade, behaving ouselves well.</div>
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Slash meets Cousin It.</div>
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Lindsay and Husband, just watching the parade.</div>
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Then Andrew and I had a little dinner at the Joe Junior Restaurant Diner on Second Ave. Might I dare submit this place to your list of best restaurants in New York? It's good to eat at a place run by professionals that take their jobs seriously.</div>
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After strong and persistent recommendation from our friend Collin, I picked up a copy of Steinbeck's Cannery Row and found I liked it very much. It was the first book in ages that I (figuratively) could not put down. Set in Monterrey, California the book consists of mostly sad, usually funny, at times very charming interrelated and interconnected stories of eccentric misfits that could also stand on their own. Almost. Think of it as a kind of hobo Dandelion Wine. (But maybe there were hobos in Dandelion Wine?) I read the whole time wondering "Now what's going to happen with these characters next?" And sometimes I could guess, but often I couldn't. So may I suggest you take this book seriously and consider reading it yourself. You will have fun and want to find someone you can talk to about gophers and throwing parties.<br />
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One Saturday I met up with a small group of Brooklynites for a picnic on Governor's Island. It had been a bit since I'd been over there. There's a lot going on these days.</div>
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Leaving the island I ran into Aubrey and others arriving on the island.</div>
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Look how smart Aubrey always makes me look.</div>
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Boat ride back to the main island.</div>
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On Labor Day I went up to this place in the Bronx that's famous for its carnitas with Kim. The carnitas were, errr, very authentic. Lots of time spent picking out bones and cubes of fat. Listen, there are cubes of fat I can eat and cubes of fat I cannot and the line between them is not thin.</div>
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See that tall apartment building being built in the middle? Its penthouse is going for $140 million. You'll have the highest residence in the Western hemisphere if you buy it.</div>
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Something I encountered on my search: First Christmas decorations going up at a mall in Jersey.</div>
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There was this Saturday where Jesse was back in town so we were all meeting up for brunch to celebrate her being here and some of us were earlier than others so to pass the time we ordered dessert.</div>
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September means to me: the Feast of San Gennaro happening outside my house. </div>
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Then one Saturday night it was off to Jersey with Jeff and Karrie and Peter to see Singing in the Rain. Best place, good movie, best people.</div>
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Cooked up my first Ma Po Tofu. Thinking about it a lot. Liked it, want it spicier and oilier, but I'm glad I wore myself out finding the right ingredients, especially the fermented black beans. Next time: a really spicy and oily Ma Po I'll make.</div>
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All last week I was so excited to go to the Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park f<a href="http://briggie.blogspot.com/2013/10/best-good-olde-time.html">or the second year in a row. </a>But when I got there Sunday morning I was surprised to find that it was EXACTLY THE SAME as last year. The same booths were in all the same spots and I saw a LOT of the same people in the same costumes. I mean consistency is great, I suppose. But now I know: The Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park is something you can go to every couple of years.</div>
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I have reason to believe that <a href="http://gothamist.com/2014/09/29/medieval_fest_tryon_photos.php#photo-17">this man is a Gothamist photographer. </a></div>
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I didn't mean to be too hard on the Medieval Festival. It's a fun thing to see. You should go. Let me know if it's different next year.</div>
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There's this 45th Anniversary Sesame Street Retrospective exhibit at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center right now and it's the best.</div>
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Wall to wall Sesame Street behind the scenes magic, it can't be topped.</div>
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There was cool stuff on display like original sheet music for many a famous Sesame Street song,</div>
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This Sesame Street exhibit runs through January and I'm telling you you should see it. It's not big, and if you go at the right time (just before it closes) it's not crowded (although it deserves Cronut-size lines). It's one of the best ways to spend 20 minutes in the city.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7171326.post-35197436855138359532014-09-11T10:54:00.002-04:002014-09-11T10:54:55.525-04:00Best Learning from Andrew WKSo ultra-earnest, completely non-ironic heavy party rock musician Andrew WK has an ultra-earnest, completely non-ironic <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/ask_andrew_wk/">advice column in the Village Voice now</a> and it's really popular, right? Maybe you've seen someone on Facebook posting one of his—hold on, wait. If you don't know or can't remember who Andrew WK is, maybe take a minute to watch at least some of the video for his big hit "Party Hard" to get the general idea/the general reminder:<br />
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Ok, like I was saying, he's been writing <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/ask_andrew_wk/">an advice column for the Village Voice.</a> Maybe you're seen someone on Facebook you've never expected to be posting about Andrew WK posting his responses to the <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/09/ask_andrew_wk_on_prayer.php">"Prayer is Stupid, Right?"</a> or <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/08/ask_andrew_wk_right_wing_dad.php">"My Dad is a Right-Wing 'Jerk Face'"</a>? Or maybe you saw him on <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/09/09/hear-why-glenn-beck-thinks-rocker-and-joy-boy-andrew-w-k-is-one-of-the-more-important-voices-to-unite-america/">Glenn Beck?</a><br />
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Anyway, the advice business is going well for Andrew right now and last night he held a live Advicing event at his club, Santos Party House, which is around the corner from my house. And it was cheap. And I was curious. So I went! See!<br />
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<li>Told someone (I can't remember the issue but I think it was heavy?): "Choose wisely and have fun with it."</li>
<li>A woman asked him about how she likes smoking and feels like she should quit but really likes smoking so she doesn't want to quit. As Andrew is in favor of doing what you like to do, he told her (after looking stumped for a second): "Life's too short not to smoke" and "Until you want to not smoke you should smoke as hard as you can smoke." It was pretty funny.</li>
<li>When asked about people who choose not to do anything (meaning stay at home all day resting or playing video games) Andrew defended the all-day gamers by saying "Well, you can make millions of dollars playing video games professionally now" and that resting all day might have inspired "the guy who invented my pillow" (Andrew then talked a bit about his pillow that he loves so much and how he saw a woman taking the same pillow home on the subway and it was in a box and why should a pillow be in a box, they're soft.)</li>
<li>He also added that someone resting at home all day "Might work on a shoe invention" which I just thought was a funny thing to say..."shoe invention."</li>
<li>There were lots of questions about paths in life and challenges in life and he said "Maybe you were supposed to go through all those things to know you weren't supposed to go through all those things."</li>
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Here's some of the finer foods I ate last month.</div>
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Went out to the Meat Hook Sandwich Shop in Williamsburg with Cher one afternoon. This is the sort of place that punishes you with an abundance of items you'll want to try. In this visit we had the Hot Chicken sandwich (I'd call it a Medium-hot at the hottest on the Prince's scale, but it was nice and crispy) and the super-solid, real good Roast Beef sandwich.<br />
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Heather was in town and there were a lot of eating opportunities, one evening Allison had us eating Prosperity Dumplings curbside before I took everyone into this basement noodle shop whose name I do not know a block down the street for sesame noodles.</div>
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One Tuesday I went with Kim to the Mission Chinese pop-up at Prime Meats because she was curious and because I missed that food. You pay cash at the door and then they bring out plate after plate of their old greatest hits and a few new inventions. I totally forgot to take a picture of the room, which was a mistake, but here's all the food:</div>
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The spicy-in-an-other-worldly-way-you-cannot-understand-unless-you've-eaten-them-yourself Chong Qing Chicken Wings, which have nearly ruined (or actually ruined) the meals of three out of five of my Mission Chinese dining companions over the years. Once I ate an entire full-sized order of these. I don't know how.</div>
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Bacon and Rice Cakes! Bacon and Rice Cakes!</div>
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Kung Pao Pastrami.</div>
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Corn and Bacon in Miso Butter.</div>
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The Original Shrimp and Grits.</div>
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And then there was a Thursday where I went with Patricia to Totonno's in Coney Island for the pizza that many respectable pizza fans call the best in the city. </div>
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Here's a Chocolate Half-Merlin Twist from Mister Softee.</div>
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The Ice Cream Cake at Parm</div>
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Finally tried the 20 for a Dollar mini-cakes of Chinatown.</div>
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An article I wrote about the Torta Cubana, its history, my relationship with this sandwich, and a few of the places you can get one in New York was published online today by Lucky Peach magazine.<br />
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Yeah, Lucky Peach magazine. The 21st Century's most popular and most celebrated new journal of food and writing and literary offshoot of the Momofuku empire.<br />
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<a href="https://medium.com/lucky-peach/on-tortas-cubanas-834c317961c6">Check it Out!</a><br />
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UPDATED Or check it out via <a href="http://lky.ph/post/96542085088/ladies-and-gentlemen-behold-the-torta-cubana-a">this intro-post on the Lucky Peach Tumblr </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2