The Bookshelf: Gastropolis
So says JBF vice president Mitchell Davis in “Eating Out, Eating American: New York Restaurant Dining and Identity,” one of the many essays in Gastropolis: Food and New York City. Davis, along with the book’s editors, Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, will be on hand for our next session of Beard on Books on Wednesday. On Thursday we’ll recap what is sure to be a fascinating discussion, but for now Mitchell suggests the ideal locales for various foodie posturings in the city that never puts down its fork. If you want to project old-school power and ambition, go to… The Four Seasons If you want to project ethnic adventurousness, go to… Golden Palace There aren’t many Dongbei cuisine restaurants in town, and the food at this out-of-the-way restaurant is delicious. If you want to project Twitter savvy, go to… The Schnitzel Truck You gotta follow them to find them. If you want to project culinary connectedness, go to… Fried Chicken Dinner at Momofuku Noodle Bar Whatever your thoughts about multiple JBF Award winner Dave Chang—and ours are his food is delicious—who doesn’t love two whole fried chickens and fixin’s? If you want to project Brooklyn gastronomic skepticism, go to… Al Di La Sure, there are all of these great new restaurants in Brooklyn, but people you know have been coming to this one since before those other chefs were born, and the Venetian trattoria food is still buonissimo. If you want to project ironic Manhattan weariness, go to… Dutch Kills Ever since the phone number for Milk & Honey got out, Manhattan’s cocktail scene has been an overcrowded zoo. But only die-hards will come out to Long Island City for a drink. Never mind everyone there with you lives in Manhattan or Brooklyn, Sasha Petrake’s cocktails couldn’t be any more delicious. If you want to project an early adopter openness, go to… Tortilleria Nixtamal What do you get when a Mexican-born man dates an Italian-American woman from Corona? Tamales with mozzarella and tomato sauce. Delicious. The straight-up Mexican tamales and tacos can’t be beat, either. If you want to project a Mittleuropean sophistication, go to… Blaue Gans Missing that American-expatriate-writer-living-in-Vienna feeling? How about a quiet lunch of goulash, schnitzel, and Esterhazy torte. If you want to project know-it-all foodie fanaticism, go to… Marlow & Sons You’ve been coming here for delicious local, seasonal food since before there was an Edible Brooklyn and a sister butcher shop. If you want to project anti-foodie sentiment, go to… Le Veau d’Or There were tournants and chefs de parties, not iron chefs and top chefs, when the city’s culinary crowd used to hang out at this frozen-in-time French bistro. A lot has changed in the food world; nothing has changed at Le Veau d’Or. If you want to project cutting-edge caffeine fiendishness, go to… Stumptown Incredible espresso and cappuccino, and the nattiest baristas at this Portland import distinguish this shrine to the roasted bean.  by JBF Editors on Nov 17, 2009 at 07:00am, under The Bookshelf |
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“Is it any wonder in a city where apartments are built without kitchens and restaurant reservationists receive extravagant gifts from strangers that dining out in New York is inextricably linked to identity? In the realm of culturally marked behaviors, eating in New York is a triple whammy: you are what you eat, you are where you eat, and you are because you eat out.”
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LIC | November 17th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
The above is so very pretentious and false it is almost comedy.
Just wondering what extravagant gifts the above mentioned establishments bestowed upon Lawson & Deutsch.
2. What’s On Your Plat&hellip | November 18th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
[...] The Bookshelf: Gastropolis The Bookshelf: Gastropolis provides a vast insight of just a few of the thousands of restaurants in New York City and what type of foods are offered there. [...]
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