Pita bread that looks (and tastes) like a slightly stale pancake (no pocket or fluffiness allowed). A salad unfettered by a surfeit of feckless feta, garlanded with grotesque, grainy tomatoes, atop loads of stale lettuce and disgusting gyro meat with a cheap vinaigrette plastered atop it — yeah, we at ELV were right at home at lunch today.
Ban Tomatoes In January!
When our staff asked uber-restaurateur Mario Maccioni the other day why he was putting pinkish tomatoes on his pizzas at the otherwise fabulous Sirio, his answer was: “Because people want them.”
Anatomy of a Wine List
Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Mariani.
Are you, like uber-critic John Mariani, wondering what a contemporary wine list in one Aria’s hot new restaurants looks like? Continue reading “Anatomy of a Wine List”