Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Mercredi, c'est ravioli.
Meredith proves us wrong. We typically complain of her racist bias which prevents her from considering, say, a Thai or Japanese restaurant as deserving of a full review. So the Asian restaurant will get a movie retrospective for half a review, then two restaurants crammed in whatever space is left. We typically whine that she never does this trick to a French or Italian restaurant. We are wrong (or she is reading us and agrees we have a point), so instead of devoting a whole column to a Vietnamese place, she shoe-horns two French places in one review.
Still, she does not disgrace these places with an unrelated introduction about movies, despite the fact that the restaurant Garcon! is named after a French movie! What a missed opportunity! I guess it shows Miss-Know-It-All-About-Movies does not know who Yves Montand is. So here is a picture of him with a lady he had an affair with:
Yes, you are right, French boys always end up with the most beautiful girls, that's a curse we have to live with. Just the other day, Jessica Alba was begging me for a date. We are just so smooth and sexy, it's our cross to bear.
You think I'm bragging in the previous paragraph. Maybe a little, but at least I don't act like 300 millions people follow my taste, as in: Apparently America agreed with me. Meredith, you agreed with America, not the other way around.
Still, it's hard for me to complain, since she does review places, and in the Mission too, which she usually does not feel comfortable visiting. So let's end quickly with a last "what's the f*ck?"
Both places [la provence and garcon] felt sincere in their desire to please us and be authentic [Meredith just wrote last week that she did not care about authenticity, by the way], in that...French cuisine[s], provincial and as served in the capital, are not as easy to find as they once were. Duplicates of La Provence and Garçon! can be found in Marseilles, Nice, and Paris today...
I could not parse this concluding paragraph. Places are not as easy to find these days, because there are duplicates everywhere? WTF?
Still, she does not disgrace these places with an unrelated introduction about movies, despite the fact that the restaurant Garcon! is named after a French movie! What a missed opportunity! I guess it shows Miss-Know-It-All-About-Movies does not know who Yves Montand is. So here is a picture of him with a lady he had an affair with:
Yes, you are right, French boys always end up with the most beautiful girls, that's a curse we have to live with. Just the other day, Jessica Alba was begging me for a date. We are just so smooth and sexy, it's our cross to bear.
You think I'm bragging in the previous paragraph. Maybe a little, but at least I don't act like 300 millions people follow my taste, as in: Apparently America agreed with me. Meredith, you agreed with America, not the other way around.
Still, it's hard for me to complain, since she does review places, and in the Mission too, which she usually does not feel comfortable visiting. So let's end quickly with a last "what's the f*ck?"
Both places [la provence and garcon] felt sincere in their desire to please us and be authentic [Meredith just wrote last week that she did not care about authenticity, by the way], in that...French cuisine[s], provincial and as served in the capital, are not as easy to find as they once were. Duplicates of La Provence and Garçon! can be found in Marseilles, Nice, and Paris today...
I could not parse this concluding paragraph. Places are not as easy to find these days, because there are duplicates everywhere? WTF?
Comments:
But of course, Sam. I think a picture of you and Fred would have made the point as emphatically as the one I put up there.
Post a Comment
