Every time restaurant week rolls around, I get e-mails asking for advice on where to go. (Please don’t stop e-mailing me for advice. I am truly flattered.) If you didn’t see my little rant a year and a half ago, please read it. I still feel the same way. What I’m really happy about it that each season, I’ve gotten less inquiries about restaurant week, and when I put up a little warning on our facebook page, it seemed like all the readers already knew. Hooray!
Even better than any way I can put it, our friend Justin Kalifowitz wrote:
Restaurant Week done in the style of Ma Nishtana (Sung in the style of Ephraim Abileah’s 1936 rendition)
Q: “What has changed this week, from all of the other weeks?”
A: “That in all other weeks our meals are cooked to order, this week we only eat pre-cooked meals.”Q: “What has changed this week, from all of the other weeks?”
A: “That in all other weeks we have a full menu to choose from, this week we only have a limited menu.”Q: “What has changed this week, from all of the other weeks?”
A: “That in all other weeks we are not pressured to order drinks even once, this week we are pressured twice!”Q: “What has changed this week, from all of the other weeks?”
A: “That in all other weeks, some food is good, some food is bland, this week all of the food is bland.”
To that, Lon added:
Filed under Events, Restaurants. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.Q: “Why during all other weeks do we eat all kinds of food, but during this week only bitter?”
A: “Because the executive chefs have all gone on vacation leaving behind the second stringers to deal with cheap-o customers who don’t know veal from shoe leather.”
haha, thank you for posting this – i used to feel guilty for not getting all hyped up about restaurant week since some of my friends talk about it as if missing it is the WORST thing that could happen to a new yorker. lol.
Very funny.
August is the worst. Everyone is gone!
Not that I’m arguing with your points here, but . . .
I wouldn’t consider myself “cheap-o”, but I do like being able to try three courses at a restaurant I’m unsure of for the price a single entree would usually cost. And when the Restaurant Week meal is REALLY great (like at Craftbar, Park Avenue Summer, or Tocqueville), it makes it that much more impressive. Restaurant Week has made me customer for life at a lot of restaurants.
Ali, please pass this on to them!
Donuts4dinner, just curious when those really great meals happened and if it was for lunch or dinner. There was a time, way back, when restaurant week wasn’t so bad, and also you can find a few diamonds in the rough for lunch.