April 7, 2004

Hell With Good Restaurants

REMINDING ME ONCE AGAIN of why I no longer live in New York City, a selection of local headlines from today's New York Daily News

Baby faces gun thug: Mom robbed in daylight Central Park nightmare

Hundreds of straphangers evacuated from smoky tunnels

NYC teens detained over suicide bomb plot concerns

Her last happy moments Pals tell of slain mom's bliss at baby shower

News test finds calls for help useless in elevator

ChapStick helps him duck death

Hog-tied corpse horror

Machete attack cuts down landscaper

Arsonist set fatal inferno for $10: Cop

... and, oh yes, the good restaurant item:
Breakfast for dinner: Upscale restaurants awaken to the possibilities of eggs in the evening

Diners are famous for serving breakfast at any hour of the day. But now, chefs at upscale joints are getting into the act: Cru's Shea Gallante slides a fried egg atop a salad of farm greens, pickled onions, smoked pear and shaved truffles, while Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of Prune, finds customers quite receptive to her simple Parmesan omelet appetizer.

Things are a little fancier at Water's Edge, where executive chef Ari Nieminen spoons creamy scrambled eggs back into their shell and tops them with vodka-spiked creme fraiche and caviar, and at the Manhattan Ocean Club, where the eggs are scrambled with crabmeat and caviar.

There's nothing like examining "the possibilities of eggs in the evening" after a day of forced evacuations from deep in the smoke-filled tunnels with suicide bomb teens muttering about tragic baby showers, or calling bootlessly for help when you're stuck in an elevator with a hog-tied corpse, a machete attacker, cut-rate arsonists who might be cops, and thugs jamming guns in your baby's face, and you've lost your last ChapStick. New York, New York... it's a wonderful town. And, what's even better, you've got eggs at $20 a bite.

Posted by Vanderleun at April 7, 2004 2:31 PM
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I shouldn't say I'm now steamed 'cause I got a little too steamed here recently, but the fact is that my mother invented Breakfast for Dinner, and I have carried on the tradition.

It was invented by staring into the fridge and not knowing what to have for dinner and not wanting to go to the store since there wasn't much there to begin with, in which case we see there are eggs, bacon, potatoes, and bread for toast and say, Ah ha!

We never made big breakfasts anyway so it was kind of a treat to have a real Breakfast for Dinner.

Posted by: mark butterworth at April 7, 2005 3:47 PM

Imagine the new Iraqi press reporting on the U.S. in the same police blotter style that most of the media here reports about the war. 500 murdered last year in Chicago demonstrates we must have a quagmire of some sort...

Posted by: Chrees at April 7, 2005 5:45 PM

YOU FUNNY...

Posted by: flannelputz at April 7, 2005 8:03 PM