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once a week i have been eating where ever i want but with some reserved approach, one week 360 was fantastic, last week was Rose Water which can be very good and both places are fantastic folks, this saturday i will do the two new dishes at wd~50 (6;00 at the bar if anyone is free, followed by an app at Wash Park and one other place, 4 app's at 3 spots)....
Diet is going, I believe I have lost 5 pounds, I feel no healthier, but I hope my cholesterol is down......I have been going out a bit more than I should, but no desserts, not butter, etc....friend was in town last night so we did El Cid, tasty, lots of protein for Linda......
had not been to Green Market in a while, the great grape team was there, its one of the season's treats to eat a 1/2 dozen types of just harvested grapes, yahoo to fall......
zen palate ok
goga cafe much more fun
thomas keller interviewed in nyo
broke down from my dinner of apple juice with ginger to eat a small plate of linda's chicken curry and rice, both from the curry source shop was tasty and not that unhealty, still I dreamt of bacon, crunchy slices smokie and juicy (i blame it on the ginger and spice).....
Diet:
Breakfast is one juiced grapefruit added to 2 liters of water.
Lunch is Irish Oats slow cooked, adding 2 oz of yogurt, 1/2 banana, few raisons and some fiber (omega 3/6/9 tablets and also a tab of folic acid)
Dinner is beans, grain, tofu, rice, greens, hummus, etc (good old hippie food)
Exersize: I get burned out kwik so I am easing in, riding bike (stationary)15 minutes in the morning and 10 min's at nite....6.5 miles.....hope to get to 30 morning and 15 nite (12 miles)....
Detox: I didnt think that it would be this hard, cranky yes but not the deep cold inside from lacking the fuel of pig fat and the gigantic waves of acid, reservoirs built strong for the 4000+ calorie daily desolve routine........
The Diet Begin's......
Ten Sustenance Food Awards 2003
#1 NYC Meal and Best New Restaurant.....wd~50
#1 Meal for 2003....Passadis Del Pep
#1 Lunch Spot and Place Most Likely to get a
Free Glass of Coche Dury.....Washington Park
#1 Japanese.....Kai
#1 Italian.....Al Di La
#1 Fried Food......Uglesich's
#1 Chinese....TIE (GSIM and 66)
#1 Viet Food NYC.....Bao Noodles
#1 Viet Food Outside of Vietnam....Slanted Door
#1 Place to get badly talked about behind my back
by the chef but still keep going back.....Wallse
Globe All
Passadis Del Pep (Barcelona) 4*
Varoulko (Athens) 4*
Slanted Door (SF) 3*
Carballeira (Lleida, Spain) 3*
Uglesich's (New Orleans) 3*
#9 Park (Boston) 3*
El Torreone (Torrisellas, Spain) 2*
Asados Nazareno (Roa, Spain) 2*
Frankie & Johnny's (New Orleans) 2*
O Loutros Fish Taverna (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2*
Botafumeiro (Barcelona) 2*
Loc All Top 12
wd50 4*
Kai 4*
Wallse 4*
Jean George 4*
Al Di La 3*
Locanda Vini Olii 3*
Fleur de Sel 3*
66 3*
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 3*
Gramercy Tavern 3*
Bao Noodles 3*
Tasting Room 2*
66 for Sunday lunch, no crowds, no slinky models so I could focus on the food, and they could focus on me, yahoo again!!
so happy the end is near, for i was near the end....
NYTimes 3* tonight and it was my #1 dis(h)apointment for 2003,
service the pits, i cant even say how much i am unhappy with the food....
diet begin's at the end of a 66 lunch, sunday 9/28....
SFA Wards Soon....
360 in redhook
Bao Noodles on 391 2nd Ave was fantastic, tried 12 dishes inc a free fresh shrimp dish, all very authentic, all clean, best Viet food NYC has ever had IMHO....3*.....cold has won but strangly its not effecting my taste, just my energy....
this is supposed to me my last week pre diet. tonight at Kai was super again, the crew left with huge smiles, i fought the cold till the end, but I bet it wins tommorow.....action packed week may have to be cut back....
so la cote basque is closing next year. i've never eaten there. worth a trip just to see how the old school did it?