TN: 4 Years of Bliss, One Good Meal at Montrachet

I have totally lost the thread on this one. Is this in Japan?

No, Manhattan.

Mark Lipton

Dale, I assume that you've seen the article in the NYT regarding the "five who changed NY dining." I took Jean to Montrachet in '90 when we were visiting and had a great meal there (great wine list, too). I'm pleased to say that, of the five chefs cited, I've eaten at restaurants run by 3 of them (Meyer, Nieporent and Vongerichten). Glad to see that you had another good experience there.

Mark Lipton

I would have thought that by now senator Clinton had changed the name to "Womanhattan." ;-)

Godzilla

Excuse der foreign gentleman - but it should be Personhattan, withut a doubt.

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

Pretty good for someone who doesn't live around here! Just to be technical, neither Drew Nieporent nor Danny Meyers are chefs. I've still never eaten at a Bouley restaurant, but hope to soon. I have eaten at : Gotham under Portale Vong (Vongerichten) Montrachet, Nobu, the late Layla , though not Tribeca Grill (may do an offline there soon) (Nieporent) Union Square, Gramercy, 11 Mad, Tabla (Meyer) Living in region makes it easier.

Dale,

Congrats to you and Betsy on your aniversary.

Not with "son" in the middle!

It's DeNiro land. And the name of his film studio.

Isn't Tribeca's name something to do with Triboro?

I finally got to see Sideways last night. I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would. Although Church slays me no matter what he is in.

Being a liker of but no expert on, was the wine trivia well researched and accurate?

mk5000

"I don't believe anyone for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I could not have believed it myself"--Joseph Smith

No. Tribeca stands for "triangle below Canal (Street)" Soho stands for "South of Houston (Street)". I think both names also take some of their cachet from other places - I think there's a Soho in England for example.

Triboro is the area (and bridge) that encompases Manhattan, Bronx, and Queens (three of the five boros of New York City, which is (nearly?) unique in being politically divided in boroughs, which are somewhat different from other kinds of divisions (but the difference escapes me). Rumor has it that this division, which occured hundreds of years ago, is actually illegal. I wouldn't be surprised.

Jose

Oh, DUH thanks

Incidentally, have you seen this week's Newsweek (with the Mormons on the cover), p 53 Lifestyles section.

First article is about marketing wine with cool labels. I have to admit that I tend to buy experimetnally the bottles that have brighter labels, but not necessarily weird names.

The second article is "The Day California Won First Prize"

mk5000

"You're so lucky Oh lucky lucky You're so lucky Yeah"--franz Ferdinand, do you want to

Yeah, I was having problems finding the right term for them: restaurateurs, I suppose is what I should have said.

No joke! Of the various one's I've tried, Montrachet and Union Sq. get my votes for the most interesting food (perhaps if I'd tried Vong in an earlier time it might have seemed more innovative, but then again the Asia-Europe cooking nexus had been done to death on the West Coast before Vong ever opened its doors).

Mark Lipton

Salut/Hi marika,

le/on 16 Oct 2005 21:50:25 -0700, tu disais/you said:-

Interesting! Might be quite useful in a country where meam living room temperatures are too hot for serving wine. What technology do they use to cool the labels.

It's no use to cryo-ver spilled wine... no use to cruover either.

You could actually do that, if you metallise the bottle by epositing Titanium Indium Oxide, and use some suitable other metal for the label, attach a battery and you get cooling by Pelletier effect.

;-)