sarahisafoodie
"Veggie Buns for life :)"
Gender: Female
Hometown: New York, NY, US
Food Stamps: 21550
Posts: 59 / Comments: 79
Member since: 02/01/07
Last login: 09/29/08
About Me
About Me
I live with my best friend, a culinary goddess, in the heart of the West Village in NYC. I am in love with food and love exploring the culinary world, primarily through all of the awesome restaurants in this city!
Interests
With regards to food: Fatty Crab. the Little Owl. (my two NYC favorites) along with sushi which is more of an addiction than a favorite. Overall I enjoy continuing to find new restaurants to explore + experience.
I get excited by innovative food, cozy, unpretentious environments, and by anyone following a dream (be it culinary or not) who is willing to go out on a limb and take a chance.
What I'm Listening to
I love music, even more than food...so this is tough. Favorites include: Ray LaMontagne, Z Trip, Robin Thicke, old school rap, JT, John Mayer, Matisyahu, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, the Fray, Snoop Dogg...
Favorite Foods
see above. The veggie buns & duck @ Fatty Crab are to die for. Other favorites: brunch @ Little Owl, hamburger at Lure fishbar, tapas at Boqueria, sandwiches from Columbine, dates at La Esquina, sushi @ hmmm...no true NYC favorites that beat Uchi in Austin which still is my #1 (although trying sushi in LA is on the horizon)...and the list goes on and on and on.
What I'm Watching
the Aleeza Gordon show on Food Network, it will be there one day :) On the negative side--I HATE everything that has to do with Rachael Ray. Outside food world: Prison Break, Rome, Entourage, Weeds, Dexter, the Hills (yep I'm a fan), Sportscenter, Jon Stewart.
Tastiest Libations
Employee's Only---everything there is amazing.
Always enjoy a good glass of red wine (and learning about wine).
Old standby drink: vodka + soda (zero calories, you can't go wrong.)
Favorite Restaurants
The best dining experiences have been mostly to do with the company. The other standouts all happen at Fatty Crab on Friday or Saturday sometime between 3:30 and 4:00 a.m.
Favorite Website Online
myspace.com, tmz.com, shopbop.com (the best fashion site---ever!), blog.ruhlman.com -- he's the best, and of course EATER.com--who could survive without eater?
Most coveted item
Hard to Get Reservation....come on now, this is nyc! (Still hoping for Per Se this spring...)
Wii Mii
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My Tags
- Batali Roasts Bloggers
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Directly from the gospel according to food, www.eater.com, Mr. Batali weighs in:
Take the following quote from yesterday's summation of the battle between landlord and tenant, our restaurant Del Posto, at 85 10th avenue. I quote:
Since we've haven't mentioned this story in a while, let's review: In January of 2006 it became clear that Del Posto had violated their lease agreement by building in spaces not expressly listed in their least agreement (the extent of these violations wasn't clear) and that Somerset Partners intended to use these violations to get rid of the Batali/Bastianich restaurant and the sweetheart lease they'd negotiated on the space...
It became clear that Del Posto had violated their lease? To whom?? If you follow the blue bold link, it takes you to the original piece driven by a factoid written by the hapless NY Post real estate/food hack Braden Keil who has hated me for as long as I can remember, not that he has any value to journalism anyway. That's who. The perception of the reader will be that, as any idiot can see, these greedy fools have swashbuckled their poor landlord and stolen property and only God knows how they will pay for such a scam.Even a cursory examination of the facts would have landed anyone -- such as all of the courts who ruled in our favor -- with the conclusion that it was nothing more than a classic shakedown. The Somerset Partners, after spending more than $1.3 million of their principals' cash unanswered and unsupported by even a morsel of gain, backed way down and off of the field to lick their wounds in their $40 million townhouses. What you did not read yesterday is that they sold the building 14 months later for something like a hundred million smackers in profit. So the reader has no option to assemble a version of the story that includes the Somerset partners' gain. Nobody is served in the end.
My broader point is that the casual and serious reader alike cannot possibly hold the anonymous blogosphere accountable. I think, in fact, many of the readers know this and enjoy the fun. But the blog is now a new partner, and this bit of shoddy journalism will be picked up and promulgated by the rest of the gray zone and march its merry way toward the center of the road. Eventually these blog posts become factual information lost in the sauce.But, in the end, I do not hate the blogger. I just expect, and want, more from many of them.
—Mario Batali
Thoughts?
- Posted Jun 14, 2007 by sarahisafoodie | 1 Comment | Share It
- Filed under: Mario Batali
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Comments:
Good for Mario
By
madrico on June 14, 2007 at 06:22:40 PM
I know Mario and I know Mark Ladner, personally. Both, I can say are great stand up people. Mario is a very intelligent person as well as a knowlegable chef. He's well versed, traveled and likes to surround himself with similar people. Mark, I've known for years and though I haven't been to Del Posto, I know that it's well deserved of 3 stars (N.Y. Times) . This because I had a 7 course tasting menu at Babbo, when Mark was the Executive Sous Chef, long before Lupa and Otto opened, and it was AMAZING. I believe they set out to do similar faire at Del Posto and according to Frank Bruni, they've succeeded. In my opinion and from what I know from discussions with Mark prior to the opening of Del Posto, the space was empty and there were no high caliber restaurants to be found. In my opinion, now that the area is hopping and becoming more and more trendy, the space is way more valuable than when they first acquired the lease. It's simple math people, if the space was valuable before the restaurant was built, then why let it go for so cheap unless now you're looking for a loop hole to evict your current tentants in order to get proper value for the space, which was fully renovated/gutted by Mario and crew. In my opinion the landlord is being really really shady in bringing this to court. But I guess justice was served and the buiding got bought by owners who don't want to pursue the eviction.
Kudos Mario, Mark and Related Partners!!!