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What's going on with burgers in the city?

Posted by robinseibe, December 1, 2006 at 9:55 PM

In my neighborhood of the Village, there are so many high end burger joints opening and in the process of opening. On 6th Ave. near 12th street the guys who own BLT Prime seemed to have opened a burger joint and

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Fred's at Barneys NYC

Posted by robinseibe, June 6, 2006 at 9:03 AM

Yesterday I made a major breakthrough in my 50 year old life. I had reserved a table for 2 at Fred's for lunch at 12:15 (because they couldn't accommodate me at 12:30 for whatever reason) and when I met my friend there she said her 15 year old daughter would be joining us shortly.

I told the hostess we would now be three, she said fine. The maitre d' with a Napoleon complex looked at me through his dark, beady eyes and salt and pepper hair and curtly said, "Where is your third?" I replied,

"She is on her way, she'll be here shortly." He gave me that sneering look and said "I will seat you when she arrives." As you can imagine at 12:15 maybe a quarter of the tables were filled. Although I've been out of the record business for 8 years, the hidden side of dealing with aberrant behavior emerged and I returned his snarly look and said "Don't do that. Don't pull that on us, just give us a table now." He was shocked, he stood there, tried to respond, and not giving him a second, I said, "Come on you're being ridiculous, seat us NOW!" He complied and wished us a good lunch. I felt I had triumphed over the imagined power that these people hold over us and my friend, her daughter and I had a most enjoyable and long lunch.

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