Maybe it’s not the freshest fish, but the format is fun. Watching plates of sushi go past on a conveyor belt is like playing with your food. If you can’t identify what’s going past or want or order something something else, there’s also a menu.
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Conveyor belt sushi
March 20, 2013Pomegranates are in season
January 17, 2013
In the Northern Hemisphere, that is… after February, you’ll have to take yourself down to the southern part of the globe for a fresh pomegranate. Who would have predicted that these unusual fruits would have become so popular?
Joy with sprinkles
December 25, 2012
The holidays have been reduced to donuts, sprinkles, hot coffee, and the equation that extreme happiness is possible with these things.
You can’t catch us
December 20, 2012
These cookies weren’t quite right. They needed more ginger, less frosting and plastic wrap. Their heads were too big, also, like huge smiley faces. We’ll keep looking for tasty gingerbread.
Gingerbread sphinx
December 2, 2012
The mysteries of the ancient cookie-sculpture… how did those gingerbread men of yore construct this engineering marvel? And the hat? What the… ? Go see this and other creations at the Parker Meridien. They were made for a good cause; cast your vote!
This way to the Rainbow Room
November 13, 2012
But keep on walking… the famed, landmarked restaurant 0n the 65th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza was open from 1934 until 2009 and is currently awaiting a new operator. It won’t be empty forever – the ground-floor neon signs aren’t coming down.
City distractions
October 9, 2012
The man in the black shirt tries a 2-arm method to protect the woman from the excesses of the city: the food! the shopping! the smells! the sights! the sounds! For the rest of us, there are simple pleasures, like the Nuts 4 Nuts vendor. The name is perfect and the nuts smell so good I don’t feel compelled to buy any.
Coney Island Gourmet hunk
September 18, 2012
I was touching the big meat on the spit because it looked fake (it was) and this guy hurried over with his pan of chicken samples. He wouldn’t leave me alone until I took some pictures or ate some food. Pictures seemed the better option.
Folded pizza slice technique
August 27, 2012
One of the favorite methods of eating a plain slice is to fold it in half, and consume it sort of like a greasy sandwich. Eating the last bit of crust is always optional. Some view it as a handle and nothing more.
Meet me @ Tad’s
August 19, 2012
Del Frisco’s it ain’t. If you need a laugh, Google “Tad’s Steaks NYC” and read how people went to this chain in the 1970′s and then felt a pull to return decades later. They had high expectations, and some of the diners are genuinely surprised: “What happened?”
