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Nice. Looking forward to it.

Also had Bone marrow & parsley salad, Deviled kidneys on toast and two orders of donuts. It was all fantastic!

The eyeball I ate there tonight had much the same texture and flavor of a sweetbread nugget - I was a bit surprised at how mellow it was, no big taste or texture shock at all. We had a half-head for four between two of us and ate a little more than half, and took the rest home where it will make carbonara, breakfast hash, and frise salads for the rest of the weekend. "...it seems common sense and even polite to the animal to use all of it." - Fergus Henderson

And often at Union Sq. Whole Foods

Lobster, steamed and a lobster roll at:
Day's Seafood Takeout Restaurant‎
1269 Route 1
Yarmouth, ME 04096-6964
dayscrabmeatandlobster.com‎

Rawley's Hot Dogs, Fairfield CT, for a pair of dogs with the works.

I'm having a hard time dealing with the price.

At most, I can eat what adds up to a sandwich, and maybe say three beers, given the heat. @ $65, that's really amazingly expensive! Especially with the economy in the crapper, and it not being a benefit of any sort.

A fair price would be forty, maybe 45 bucks.

You can also get frozen puff-pastry cups, bake them to puff, and fill with a smattering of escargots and a sauce you like: parsley-butter sauce, a burgundy or dry red-wine sauce perhaps with some small mushrooms, thyme, garlic and basil all compliment escargots.

Like all (without exception) of Mario's places, Eataly and its Top-Hat beer garden are an over-crowded ripoff machine.

While his marketing machine is pretty awesome, and his food often tasty, the crowds and the maximum-wallet-extraction approach makes his places un-enjoyable as a whole. Batali's business' really stay focused on food costs a lot, and are about making money from a celebrity, not about providing an enjoyable experience to regular people any more... if they ever were.

Go to his places if you want to throw a few hours of hard-earned cash in the trash. There are a lot more scrappy less-famous hard-working tasty enjoyable customer-focused higher-value places where you could be spending your money and time in NYC.

There may be no better meal than Breakfast at Brennan's in New Orleans. Sure its too expensive, but the chance to have 3-4 cocktails, a bunch of fine white Burgundy, and some trout and poached eggs with some sauces and maybe artichokes or etc. etc. and get your friends slightly loaded before noon (gotta avoid the afternoon hangover, so stay a little drunk for the rest of the day, ok?) is not to be missed.

I plotzed.

Went there last Saturday and there was a LINE TO GET IN on Broadway, about 30 people long, at 2-3 in the afternoon. So, I think they are doing pretty well! they have some good pastas.

There are some quiet times good to go, and they are not Saturday and Sunday afternoon, in fact, it can be quite unpleasantly crowded at those times.