Truff, I think you just became number ONE on my "people to avoid at a restaurant" list.

Way to be an inconsiderate, self-absorbed jerk.

Herring in cream sauce. from Russ & Daughters. Frankly, I can't imagine a Sunday brunch package from them without it. Why isn't it included??

I'm not sure how you can fairly evaluate a delivery burger compared to one delivered to a table directly from the kitchen. I've gotten many a burger delivered in my day and it's virtually impossible to specify temperature, as they're always well-done by the time they arrive.

This just sounds like such a weird set-up. But I guess the name is fitting, since there's no entrance to Burger Exit.

I'm assuming the fingernails are a reflection of melting chocolate.

And thanks for the Li-Lac update! I didn't know they'd left their Christopher St location and, the last time I was in the nabe, I thought they'd closed. Yay!

Oh. My. God.

Well, I'm certainly tempted. But tell us more! Why won't it satisfy those looking for "real" ice cream? What's the difference? What is it lacking?

I worked as a bartender in NYC restaurants and hotels from 1978 to 1993, and I agree with every last one of Buschel's commandments. I don't think they're inconsistent in the least. The inclusion of the "only" in the line about the two final lobsters, for example, is what makes that a hustle rather than a piece of information.

And just because the Served blogger claims it's OK to ask what was wrong when the tip is bad doesn't mean it's right. It's far better if the manager goes over and asks if there was a problem than if the server does.

And, hey, the closest subway stop is on the G line! Perfect!!

"Hanoi hoagie"? That is a genius coinage. I'm totally ganking it.

It was really irritating, actually. The truck only comes to Columbia once a week. I had 10 minutes to run out and get a waffle for lunch, and I had to sit there while TV cameras filmed a crowd screaming outside the truck. They were giving away free mini-waffles on a stick with strawberries and banana slices, like a kebab, but it was almost impossible for me to just get my lunch. In the middle of my attempt, Bobby Flay walks up and challenges Thomas to a waffle smackdown in the World Room at the Journalism School. It was like listening to pre-bout wrestlers trash talking. The audience was eating it up, but I just wanted to get my freakin' waffle and get back to work.

Call me cranky.

Once I got the counter guy's attention, he was really sweet, and he didn't even charge me for my waffle, which was even sweeter. But I'd have been just as happy to have paid for it and gotten it without the floor show.

The current daughter of Russ and Daughters has been recorded as saying that no fresh bagel should ever be toasted: toasting is only for day-old bagels.

But that's not he point. The point is, if you ask for a toasted bagel, should there be a charge for it? And the answer, unequivocally, is NO. That is offensive to the point of insanity.

That is GORGEOUS. I would beat a path to the door of any NYC restaurant that put that on the menu.

YUM.