The previous went up in haste, as I had pressing forelock-tugging business in the real world. If I'd spent longer, I might have dialed back the Cheesecake Factory rhetoric, though the larger question seems to be why a paper like the NYDN needs to have its critic review a place like Tailor. Not to say that RG should confine herself to restos with a Giants in HD on demand and without apology policy,* but to drop a bad review on a spot like this on the grounds that the food was not normal enough seems as if it must be a way to respond to the (perceived) tastes of NYDN readers.
But I digress -- far beefier is the big old brisket the lads at Eater and Bun publicist Steven Hall are batting back and forth. First the lads drop seven tips for having a party (like the one at Bun last night) not suck, then Hall comes through with a point-by-point rejoinder.** Scholars of the Reformation might recall that the Catholic Church did not
come back with interpolated responses to Martin Luther's 95 theses -- they stat back to let the whole thing blow over, and if it were not for that pesky invention of printing, it might have. By way of analogy, probably a better bet to let the conversation drift on to Momofuku 3: Reloaded, or whatever Chang has up his sleeve this week, than to keep the thing in the air. As Juvenal once observed, "who handles PR for the PR guys?"
*Never fear -- such a spot exists not far from Tailor. You need look no further than Ludlow Street for safe space to watch the antics of the younger Manning, in an environment free of miso butterscotch and cider braised artichokes.
**Don't miss the comments, either, where the c-word is used. Zomg!
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