The Bronx is up/aka Where have you gone Rich Garces, our Nation turns its lonely eyes to you

Experiments in the unfamiliar challenge of being gracious in victory to follow, please read with caution.

A lean DI/DO, by the Cod's lights. Disappointing that the calls to edit Bruni appear to have been heeded, and Bmuse chimed in below to indicate that his review  was on the money. However, the tour de Bronx put a shiver in these fins. Astute readers of the Cod may have noted an enthusiasm for the World Champion Boston Red Sox expressed from time to time here.. Leaving aside the will success spoil questions for the moment, just now, it seems as if the Bronx would be a much better place to go to a game if you were hungry before or after. With the very notable exception of El Pelon, eating options in the Fens have been going backwards for many years. (Their signature "El Guapo" burrito is a rite of passage.) Sure as Sherman, Silber's gang of gentrifiers has laid waste to a once vibrant neighborhood, replacing a textbook stoop culture, Jane Jacobs stizz, with gleaming airconditioned nightmares of Durstosity it would take Mike Davis to explain.  And now, next door, this, submitted by the ever-vigilant Rose's Lime, who calls it a "kofta in sheep's clothing." I remain profoundly unconvinced by the Burgerdog, though I fear that the ever upwardly mobile Fenway fan base might, you know, eat them up. Rich Garces, where are you?
In any case, all you homeboys out in the Bronx, (who were remarkably classy on  opening day, I meant to mention) this one's for you. 

Comments

[max]

Was there ever anything good to eat in Kenmore? Not coming up with anything here... Wait, there was something on the sub-ground floor a few doors down from the Rat... a deli? pancakes? I can't remember.

Also, Garces's real nickname, if I recall, was "pote de talco", based on visual similarities. Where is he now?

[Rose's Lime]

I can also recall patronizing the Deli Haus and Capt Nemo's Pizza. Also the dirt cheap pizza place next to McDonalds with pitchers even more watery than inside.

For those heading Fenward, I can recommend The Sausage Guy. Rightly well regarded and unspoiled by success.

[JL]

Was there ever anything good to eat in Kenmore?

Not exactly fine dining, but Charlie's was fun. My memory's not so good about what the food was actually like, to tell the truth.

[Fesser]

Not so much that there was ever in my recall great food in Kenmore, but that there were different kinds of bad food--Pizza Pad, Nemos, Deli Haus, so forth, rather than these assy chains serving nasty ribs.* The Burgerdog is just another indication that the Man is taking over, for a change. Also, JL--do you mean Charlie's in Harvard Square?

[JL]

No, I mean the Charlie's Cafeteria, which was in Kenmore. Pretty much right where the hotel is now. Last time I went there was maybe 1986; I don't recall when it disappeared.

[New Orleans]

I wrote a lot of good poetry while drinking OK coffee in Charlie's. I really miss the place still. Probably disappeared around '88 or so. Also, the Pizza Pad and the other pizza place was great. Wasn't someone planning on getting married there one day? I guess the church off Harvard Square did the trick all right, but I did leave a libation in front of where the P.P. was on that weekend in 2002.