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Just one more pile-on here; those pictures (with descrip) caused my knees to buckle. I would eat breakfast for all 6 meals a day, every day if I could. And I think all of those dish items would fit the bill wonderfully.

told you so (re: dessert club). too bad those cookies used to be 3 for $2. now that they are $1 each, i have no excuse to eat 3 :(

milk and cookies may not have made the top of the list but those cookies make for a top notch ice cream sandwich :)

@klaus ok: Tasters started off with small pieces of each cookie, recorded first impressions, and then went back and forth between samples to compare and contrast. There were 10 cookies up for consideration here, narrowed down through preliminary rounds. It isn't realistic to eat 10 whole cookies in one sitting—especially when some were up to 4"-6" inches across and could easily have fed three. Our judges put their systems through an awful lot for Serious Eats; there's no need to make it worse.

I went on Friday with a friend ~ we had the Persimmon jasmine rice pudding [our verdict: delicious flavor & texture combo ] & the white miso semifreddo [our verdit: glad we tried it although we found it a tad to savory ] as well as a peanut butter cookie & a green tea chocolate cookie [verdict: we enjoyed the strong pb flavor nicely complemented by a sprinkling of sea salt on top; we found the green tea chocolate blah] ~ the best treat: watching Pichet Ong teaching his staff how to make & plate the deserts. It's a comfortable space even though it's subterranean and the staff is very welcoming even though they haven't quite got their sea legs.

The good news: V&T's pizza is helped immensely by ordering it "crispy - well done." Mozzarella is top quality; best toppings include artichoke and eggplant. The bad news: it seems V&T has gone over to prefab crust instead of making their own. Their crust was once as good as a gas oven pizza gets, yeasty and chewy, big bubbles, irregularly shaped. And ordered well done a bit charred. But recent pies have seemed suspiciously too round and, sure enough, flip it over and the bottom shows signs of a tell-tale grid pattern that is a sure sign of a factory made crust. Walking past their open kitchen used to be you'd see their cooks stretching dough all day. No more.

Sorry to double post, found the site though. He appears to have the same white pizza on the menu (everyone around here loves it, I think it's blah) and so there's hope on the mushroom front. I just tried to call and ask, but noone answered. Anyways, their site is at http://ignaziospizza.com/

The picture makes it look very good, but it also reminds me of a Papa John's pizza, especially after reading your description.

Koronet is good pizza when it is eaten according to very specific instructions:
1) Consume a lot of alcohol prior to eating
2) Show up to Koronet's only after 3 AM and very hungry
3) Eat the pizza with a lot of garlic powder and chili flakes
4) Fall into bed, stuffed, and with red grease stains on your clothing

I've been at Columbia since 1993, both as a grad student and now as an employee. I've only eaten V&T three times in all those years, and always at someone else's urging. I don't think it's very impressive pizza, even by old-fashioned (i.e., non-Napolitano artisanal-quality) standards. I agree that it's soggy and I am not particularly impressed by the sauce.

There's no decent pizza in M'side heights, though. Well, they actually do make good pizza at Sezz' Midi on A'dam and 123rd, but they're not a pizzeria per se. It's just one thing on offer. But if I'm craving delivery pizza, I tend to go with Famous Famiglia--it's not great, but it hits the pizza button that was installed when I was a teenager. Koronet, the only other pizzeria in the nabe, isn't worth discussing.

The header is missing the other brother. I was wondering why it looked weird.

I ate at Eve's in Ann Arbor MI in July. It was great ( I had halibut with risotto and peas). I got to meet her for a minute, she seems shy. I think she looked so scared last night! I think it's pretty impressive that she is on the show with so many contestants from big cities.

BTW, the Puck rocks!

Thoughts:

-Tom seemed just smitten with Wolfgang; I mean what's not to love about everyone's favorite Austrian.

-I'm pretty sure Jesse is just going to cry in every episode. I could do without.

-Was I the only who thought Hector looks like he flips coins and knows how to use a cattle bolt?

-Where was Toby? Working with choreographers to develop a ZING! dance?