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Thanks again for the additional comments and after some further review I have replaced Lombardi's with Motorino, scratched King Papaya from Dinner from Sunday Dinner, and have added Minetta Tavern for Dinner on Saturday.

So pretty much Saturday is totally on lockdown so that is 1 day. Basically at this point I am looking at filling Sunday Breakfast and another dinner or lunch. I say either because I am willing to move things around based upon when it is best to hit some restaurants or depending on how early I need to get there.

For Motorino, how hard would it be to get a single spot by myself at lunch on Sunday or Monday? I am willing to move by Shake Shack meal to dinner on Sunday if it would be easier to do Motorino when I know I can get there right when they open on Sunday.

Thanks guys keep up the great work.

do the rumaki!

i did: http://bonappetempt.blogspot.com/2009/08/homage-to-mad-men-gourmets-rumaki.html

Reverse question: what's a good place for guys to meet interesting, cheeky, intelligent women?

I'm a guy in my 40's (single, not unattractive, employed). I want a place where I can actually hear the woman and maybe even get to know her.

When I was out west I was amazed at how easy it is to just mingle and talk with people. Here it seems harder.

Suggestions?

Sandra pronounces "cocktail" correctly :-)

TEdward speaks the truth, and compiles a good list. Though if you are looking for the type of guy who goes to pick up girls at Employees Only I can only have sympathy on you. I like Wilfie and Nell out of the bunch.

The only people who think that Sandra Lee brings the world anything of value have apparently not watched more than a few minutes of her show or they know nothing of cooking. Semi-ho is not a money-saving concept and her money saving show, based on imaginary grocery prices, is ridiculous and insulting.

Why wouldn't we judge someone as lazy when they choose to mispronounce a word like espresso (assuming, of course, that at least one person at FN can pronounce it and correct the offender)? Given the whole new attitude that Food Network portrays, it wouldn't be a stretch for me to believe that Sandra Lee mispronounces it on purpose to seem more folksy.

I wouldn't judge someone as stupid for not knowing how to pronounce a word the first time they see it, but if you're corrected and you don't even TRY to correct yourself, why can't I judge you as lazy?

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Forgive my snobbery, but I stopped watching Food Channel about 18 months ago. Whenever they replaced/second-fiddled the real pros like Mario Batali, Emeril, and Sara Moulton with those overproduced yuckfests with the soft filters, the cheesy music, and the lack of live cooking. (Of course, I do watch Good Eats; Alton talks about COOKING, and it’s not OVERproduced)

EEW: Sandra Lee, Rachel Ray (because she just annoys me), Giada de Laurentis, Ina Garten, Tyler Florence (I like the last 2 a little more than the others).

I would like to see cooking, and learn about why things work the way they do in the kitchen, not learn how to set a pretty table or entertain my guests. It seems to me that would be better suited to a different channel. Now I watch America’s Test Kitchen on PBS, and that replaces the *entire* Food Network for me.

"Expresso" is a mispronunciation of "espresso." There's not really room for debate in the right or wrong department. However, I can certainly understand the tendancy for non-native speakers of a foreign language to mispronounce borrowed words that are phonetically unfamiliar (same with "bruschetta" or "gyro"). It doesn't make the speaker a bad person or even less intelligent. I second I_destouches -- other lanugages borrow plenty of English words that end up horribly butchered on the other end. That's just how it goes.

Sandra Lee is the George W. Bush of the Food Network - 'nuff said.

Hey guys, with all this in-fighting, how about this one? Tyler, Paula, Guy, & Michael Chiarello all say...............MAR-SCA-PONE instead of the correct MAS-CAR-PONE. Now I could understand Sandra & Paula.........but Chiarello & Fieri [yes, for all of us Food Channel alumni, his name used to be pronounced Fieri, not Fieti]........hmmmmmmm wonder why that change???
And yes, total agreement with the masses.....it is indeed ESPRESSO!

Two comments - people who axe a question instead of ask..(AUGGHH!!)

Sandra Lee makes me ill - how she got a show and calls herself a chef when all she does is by pre-packaged stuff, add some lame ingredient(s) to it and then pass it off as something she actually prepared from scratch...PULEEASE! Get out of the kitchen Sandra. Put the spatula down and just leave. I beg you.