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Originally Posted by Hitch
Honestly, I'm dithering back and forth on which one of these is my fave....but "vodka is strong but the meat is raw" has gotta be right up there.
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Which is why they
had strong vodka. Many things were raw, but after a few shots you ceased to care...
I had dinner a few years back in a place in "Little Russia" in Brooklyn, NY. I posted elsewhere that when opening an ethnic restaurant, you probably
didn't want to accurately reproduce the
service levels in restaurants back home. It took something like half an hour to get a server, he spoke no English, so we pointed at the dishes in the menu to indicate what we wanted, it took another half hour or so to get our dishes, which were at best mediocre, and paying for the meal had me wandering back looking for someone to take our payment, and passing a kitchen with a guy smoking like a chimney while preparing dishes.
A table full of locals across the room from us where knocking back vodka and having a fine old time. I guess for them the place
did reproduce life back in the old country. We weren't vodka drinkers (my tipple is malt whiskey), so that wasn't an option for us.
That place no longer exists, and in its most recent life was trying to be a high end steak house. Failing at that, too, though I suspect different owners also lacking clues.
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Dennis