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"The restaurant’s steaks are taken off grass-fed cattle, and butchered to the thickness of a Frisbee. This is a grim combination, leading to giant flaps of crust-free, overly chewy meat the flavor of nickels. Most people cut bits off, then push the rest around the plate as if it were a pile of napkins. At $45 for a rib-eye, this is a nasty business."
—Sam Sifton gives the very attractive new East Village restaurant Peels a nice kiss at the start of his review in today'sTimes. But then he slaps it across the face! But then he gives it a kiss again at the end, saying of their breakfasts, "It is for this feeling that we go to restaurants." It is for this feeling that couples go into couples therapy.
I wondered WTF is up with that place. Now I don't have to go!
I wonder if Diane Sawyer likes the flavor.
When considering the thickness of a Frisbee, are we only thinking of the plastic, or the airspace framed by its concave edges? I find this a confusing analogy, and would prefer to compare cuts of meat with simpler matches, like wood shop tools, or sweat shirt sizes.
I am glad I was not the only person wondering this!
Did he regularly switch which hand the fork was in? Sambidextrous.
He didn't eat a lot, but he sure wrote a lot. Samphetamines.
The frog legs reminded him too much of his family. Samphibian.
Afterwards, he went for a little walk. Persambulation.
If he'd broken his leg during his walk, he'd need a sambulance.
The richness of the meal knocked him out but he went for a walk anyway. Samnambulism.
"Taken off"? Oh, for the love of Pete. He was a pathetic hack when he wrote for the NY Press, and he's still awful.
Right? It sounds as if the cow remains living, producing new steaks every couple of days.
@CF: You have seen the future, and it is deliciously guilt-free!
Another alternative: the cows were dressed like Lady Gaga.
Other writers get paid by the word. Sam Sifton gets paid by the adjective/adverb.
I hope he writes more about servers' nail polish in the future, chipped or not.
He really had to conserve characters when he tweeted about it. Sampersamd.
a Vampire Weekend house sound abominable
IT'S A SAMBOMINATION!!
"Montauk Squid," is that a thing?