El Gaffney

Happy 30th Anniversary, Mom and Dad

Last night my beyoncé, sister and her new husband took my parents out for dinner to celebrate their 30th anniversary. We hit up Plein Sud, which was on the radar since it’s pretty new to our neighborhood and Ed from Top Chef D.C. runs the kitchen. The meal was quite tasty. You can’t go wrong with flatbreads, mac and cheese and ham, skirt steak and souffle, though, can you? I guess if Tom C. is tasting you can. But our amateur palettes were “more than satisfied.” (Yes, that’s a My Cousin Vinny reference. By the way, IMDB lists the tagline for that movie as “Rambo. Terminator. Indiana Jones. Vinny Gambini.” Really?)

I didn’t open this new post window to talk food or film; I did so to (more publicly) recognize and congratulate my parents on this amazing milestone in their (our) lives. They’re an example in so many ways – one of which is their love for and commitment to each other. Thank you both, for everything.

This seemed like a much more important story today than “What your brand can learn from Kanye Tweets as New Yorker cartoons.” But, if you’re into that, friend me on Facebook.

Tags: family, food

Schiller’s Tonight

Schiller’s Liquor Bar on Rivington that is. Not to be confused with Schiller Visions. Hopefully no one will be drinking coffee.

Have a fireworks-filled Fourth.

Tags: bars, food, nyc, snl

Inbox of Immaturity

First installment from the new digs. And it comes with an observation. The Gen GuYs have FOOD on the mind. For a sports-fanatical group like my friends, neither baseball nor the NBA Finals made a dent in the inbox nor became the focal point of our conversations.

Perhaps Independence Day plans are being made (last minute obviously) and summer’s finally kicked into gear – get your BBQ on people.

Here we go:

This is not too funny, but this was the hot topic of discussions: A burger eating competition at Fatburger in Jersey City coming up on the 28th. If you eat a whole, fully loaded Triple Kingburger (we’re talking 1.5 lbs of meat alone here) you win a undisclosed prize, a fatburger gift certificate, tshirt and picture on the wall. My friend Cox is training: “I think I’m ready – i want to be imortalized in Fatburger history. 4 yrs ago I did eat a 40oz burrito and washed it down with a 21 oz iced tea so hopefully this should be a walk in the park.”

The secret to Chipotle’s success has been identified not by accident, rather by planned marketing. I’m curious to hear how everyone feels about this move?

The hot dog eating record was broken by Joey Chestnut of California. Take that Kobayashi.

Otherwise, there’s been some heated Sopranos debate, which Tim Goodman
recaps and offers his opinion. Solid stuff.

And lastly, an MTV Cribs parody you may actually find novel and comical by Michael Gondry.

Please submit link to comments if you think people are missing out on immaturity from the week! Thanks.

Tags: food, ioi, mtv

Reason #76646

They don’t dominate the all-you-can-eat “Brazilian steakhouses” like we do. I may not have posted the 11 lb. weight gain from my previous dining experience at Churrascaria Plataforma (thanks, Katz for bringing a scale to the restaurant), but when you look around and see you’re the only one who is still “green-buttoned” it says something. And that something is: “You are a fat American pig.” (See the name of the restaurant, and its classy logo, above.) I’ve been washing all dinners down with their infamous (like El Guapo) Caipirinhas. They have all the bob flavors.

Tags: brazil, food, restaurants, steakhouse