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I agree..call them what you want, grandmas or simply squares, they are heavenly!

you can pick healthy choices... i can get crunchy tacos with carnitas, fajita veggies, lettuce, and medium salsa. all stuff that I know won't add a lot of calories (like rice, beans). My total for that is 410 calories.

bad service. bad attitude. mediocre pizza. when i complained about the long waits before ordering, before receiving our (uncooked) antipasti, and before receiving our pizza, manager carlo responded by telling me how many minutes i'd waited. (He was wrong: He told me how long I'd waited before inquiring, not the much longer I waited before actually getting food.) "You can run your business with a stopwatch," i told him, "but i'm never coming back here." His response? "That's perfectly understandable." So i guess we have a meeting of the minds!

Not being a disciple of Brother Reinhart or Donald Altman I've never tasted it !

There is soul in pizza- especially at Sal & Carmines!

Oh, man, Sandro. I think I would have been plotting routes to Patsy's the minute I moved to wherever it is you live on the UWS. Glad you found the M116!

I'm going to have to disagree - went there last night, and had one of the worst burgers I've had in a long time. The bun was too soft and shiny, like brioche, and the meat was broken, like it had been ground at too warm a temperature and ended up with that cottony, fall-apart texture that you get when all the fat leaks out because its improperly emulsified. Combined with the dry texture of the bun, the whole thing was like eating a ball of cotton.

It was well-seasoned, but the beef itself also had minimal flavor, and no fat remaining in it to speak of (doesn't help that they brought it out med-well). And that red house sauce is really nasty - tastes like a dried spice rack.

All-in-all, a pretentious very "NY" place that would be forgivable if they produced a decent product, but I wouldn't wish that burger on Wimpy.

Did I just go there on a bad day? My friends took me there and insist that it's always been good, but then again, they also said they liked their burgers yesterday, so maybe I just can't trust them...

(Good side note though: they do offer American now).

I will give the ABSOLUTE greatest crock pot chili recipe EVER!!!!!

Ingredients:
-3 lbs. Lean Groud Beef---
-2(28 oz.) cans of Chunky Crushed Tomatoes---
-1(28 oz.) can Peeled Tomatoes----
-2 (12 oz., give or take) cans Red Kidney Beans
-3 Green Bell Pepers (abaout 2 lbs.)---
-1 Red Bell Pepers (about 3/4 of a lb.)---
-1 large Onion---
-2 Jalapeno Peppers (about 1 1/4 lbs.)---
-2 cups Rice(any style)
-2 large Tomatoes--
-8 table spns. Chili powder--
-3 table spns. Flour--
-3 table spns. Salt--
-5 table spns. Crushed Red Peppers--
-2 table spns. Pepper--
-3 table spns. Basil--
-3 table spns. Oregeno--
-1 table spns. Sugar--
- 5 table spns. Extra Virgin Olive Oil---
-8 table spns. of finely Chopped Garlic(sorry i don't know how many cloves exactly, but $1 worth of garlic is plenty---

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:

-1. Fist put the two cans Crushed Tomatoes and 1 can Peeled in the crock pot on HIGH. Just let it cook.

-2. Cook the Ground Beef on a medium high flame until browned, add 2 table spns. of Chil Powder to the meat as it cooks. When ground beef is fully cooked DRAIN it and add it to the crock pot that already has the cans of Crushed + can of Peeled Tomatoes already cooking.

-3. Cook the Onion(Chopped), Green Bell Peppers(chopped), Red Bell Pepper(chopped), 8 chopped tblspns. chopped Garlic, Jalapeno Peppers, and 5 table spns. Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Cook until ALL ingredients are glazed/tender/slightly browned.-------and add it to the crock pot that already has the cans of Crushed + can of Peeled Tomatoes, and ground beef already cooking

-4. mix 6 tblspns. Chili Powder with 3 tblspns. Flour with *about* 5 tblspns. water. thouroghly mix the Chili Powder + Flour + water ( it should be a little thinner than a tooth past consistancy) ADD that mixture(RUE) to the crock pot.

--5. Add Basil, Crushed Red Pepper, Oregenp, Salt, Pepper, Sugar, to the Crock Pot.

--6. Chop the 2 Tomatoes into fairly large pieces. Add the chopped Tomatoes to the Crock Pot.

--7. *DRAIN* the 2 cans Red Kidney Beans

scallops. or serrano ham.

a lifetime supply of filet mignon would be the greatest. perfect for BBQ's. cooked medium rare. best cut of meat there is, no question.

The mexican (non-HFCS) coke is VASTLY better than the cheap American made crap.

In fact, I was recently in London and the McDonalds there is edible, organic and much better tasting. Americans in general seem to like eating Sheisse.

I'm drinking a Mexico coke from a GLASS bottle (Glass doesn't have Bisphenol-A in it like cans.).

Also, recently, in the USA, it was discovered that there is MERCURY in High Fructose Corn Syrup - cheap, bad tasting and TOXIC.

A big fat F**K YOU to Coca Cola in Atlanta, I hope the current CEO and all executives die of prostate cancer for this.

See here for the mercury in US corn syrup:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKTRE50Q5IA20090127

Studies find mercury in much U.S. corn syrup
Tue Jan 27, 2009 6:15pm GMT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many common foods made using commercial high fructose corn syrup contain mercury as well, researchers reported on Tuesday, while another study suggested the corn syrup itself is contaminated.

In one study, published in the journal Environmental Health, former Food and Drug Administration scientist Renee Dufault and colleagues tested 20 samples of high fructose corn syrup and found detectable mercury in nine of the 20 samples.

Dufault said in a statement that she told the FDA about her findings but the agency did not follow up.

scalloped potatoes or eggs over easy with buttered toast.

Not comfort food for me but I second the Simon Hopkinson recommendation! Mark Bittman has a similar pasta w/ pesto and potatoes - they're both good.