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Tom Glasgow
Thomas W Glasgow
What happened to 3 Cups? It seemed like they had a good selection.
Nice article, despite the expected puffery and hyperbole.
I particularly like this quote "would be right at home in Brooklyn..." because that's exactly how I felt the other week in Pizzeria Toro. And there does seem to be a quality core consumer base.
But, that core may dissipate a bit more quickly than in a place like Nyc. I was reading online reviews of Toro and was shocked to see locals writing things like "excellent pizza but not what you expect: it's thin and they don't have mozzarella sticks."
Anyway, such is life. Nice work.
I particularly like this quote "would be right at home in Brooklyn..." because that's exactly how I felt the other week in Pizzeria Toro. And there does seem to be a quality core consumer base.
But, that core may dissipate a bit more quickly than in a place like Nyc. I was reading online reviews of Toro and was shocked to see locals writing things like "excellent pizza but not what you expect: it's thin and they don't have mozzarella sticks."
Anyway, such is life. Nice work.
I always laugh when Big City Guy finds culture and, ahem, substance in backwoods America and reports back "It's A-Live!" What is surprising? You have a metro area that has money, brains, and yound'uns and a place where people are not paying through the nose for living there. Why Wouldn't there be a thriving food/wine scene there?
originally posted by MarkS:
You have a metro area that has money, brains, and yound'uns and a place where people are not paying through the nose for living there. Why Wouldn't there be a thriving food/wine scene there?
I'm not a gastronomic historian, but I think most of the places he cited were fairly/really new. And while the area had (some) money, brains, and young'uns twenty/thirty years ago, the food/wine scene was not at all thriving in the way it is today.
You aren't going to shatter my faith in Yelp, are you?originally posted by Rahsaan:
online reviews
originally posted by SFJoe:
And it is not hard at all to think of counterexamples.
*cough* Indeed.
M'k L'n
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
originally posted by SFJoe:
And it is not hard at all to think of counterexamples.
Way too many.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by Rahsaan:
Online reviews are definitely a mixed and warped bag, but I've never seen anyone writing about mozzarella sticks when commenting on the better NYC pizza restaurants.
A reviewer on Yelp of my favorite taco place here in Jersey City complained that they put a whole lime wedge on her fish taco. She tried eating the taco and couldn't bit through it because of the lime...
originally posted by MLipton:
BTW, fantastic publicity, VLM. How much did you have to pay Asimov to lay such heavy praise on you (not to mention Rue Cler)?
M'k L'n
My name doesn't appear anywhere in that piece.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Teh inner toobz are full of whiners. Personally, I don't take that much fish taco with my lime wedges. But you don't see me complaining about it.originally posted by Jay Miller:
A reviewer on Yelp of my favorite taco place here in Jersey City complained that they put a whole lime wedge on her fish taco. She tried eating the taco and couldn't bit through it because of the lime...
originally posted by VLM:
originally posted by MLipton:
BTW, fantastic publicity, VLM. How much did you have to pay Asimov to lay such heavy praise on you (not to mention Rue Cler)?
M'k L'n
My name doesn't appear anywhere in that piece.
I was using you in the plural to refer to Cave Taureau, though one could find your surname in that piece.
M'k L'n
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
What happened to 3 Cups? It seemed like they had a good selection.
They went out of business. The mall location evidently didn't work out too well.
originally posted by mark e:
originally posted by Tom Glasgow:
What happened to 3 Cups? It seemed like they had a good selection.
They went out of business. The mall location evidently didn't work out too well.
There were other issues, like expensive build out and high fixed costs, business model and strategic errors, staff turnover.