Wealthy Kosmopolitan New Yawkers are sick of not being able to blow their dough on Broadway front row, Billy Joel at Barclay's, but mostly, EATING OUT.
New Yawkers do not COOK. People cook FOR THEM. Maybe once a week, the COOK works in their home, but the other 6 days are RESTAURANTS, RESTAURANTS, RESTAURANTS.
Michelin 1,2,3 -- doesn't matter. It's about the 6 o'clock cab/uber/walk to Le Bernardin, Masa, Per Se, 11 Madison...
Naomi is frustrated she cannot add more to her sizable girth plowing through the Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare! Perhaps we should invite her and Chatsworth to the local Golden Corral...The 2021 Buffet Summit! No masks, no distancing, just food. They can even each bring a runner to glean the steam tables for them.
Amen. Spot on.
Gotcha. I live in a completely different world.
See my #27-—as for “sizable girth” I can attest to that. While waiting for my wife and daughter to come out of a dress shop in the E. Village a few years ago Naomi almost collided with me as she came out of a drugstore. She was wearing skintight stretch jeans and was waaaaaayyyy chunkier than I would’ve imagine.She made her way to a nondescript mid-rise apartment building, which I later read somewhere was where she lived. But she did look at me and smiled warmly. “So there’s that”