O/T: NYC Net54 Dinner Thread

[Blunder19]

Barry,

I thought the ring of 50% discount might persuade a few NYC loyalists..

Theres nothing like seeing a $1,400 bill for 10 or so guys get chopped in half to $700...

well let me know where it will be ...even if not at rothmans ...and I will try to get there..

We could also try a long island dinner another night and get to rothmans that time.

[baseballart]

I will be in Cuba from January 28 to February 5. If any Net54ers want to get together for dinner in Havana that week, please let me know .

(Strangely enough, I think that might be easier to accomplish than arranging a date for a NYC dinner )

Max

[calvindog]

Long Island? We can't travel to Long Island. The first island we would have to go to would be Staten Island, I'm afraid, as Joe D is the Mayor there or something.

So is the 28th a possible date? We've got Bruce, Joe D, Barry and myself right now. Anyone else in? Should we see if we can lure Rob Lifson out of the house? We could leave a trail of Baltimore News Ruths leading from his house to Sparks -- that could work.

[Robextend]

Originally Posted by calvindog

The first island we would have to go to would be Staten Island, I'm afraid, as Joe D is the Mayor there or something.

If you are serious about Staten Island (and I know you aren't) I could lend my expertise. I know for sure we have some great Italian restaurants as well as a great Spanish restaurant called Espana. I do believe we lack in quality steakhouses...

Ultimately whatever you guys choose to do I would like to see if I could be a part of it.

[MVSNYC]

hi barry- rather then getting one phone call, i opted for internet access for one hour

i'm free most of next week. but i thought Joe D. couldn't do thursday?


my guess is that one week's notice is way too short for most people, and that we'll have to try to for early february

[Blunder19]

Dan,

Yea.. in NY .. at a nice place...its about $100 per person for all the food and alcohol you take down...


every meal is one T206 Southern leaguer I could have had....

[barrysloate]

Early February works for me, and it would give us more time.

Dan- I'm a New Yorker but I'm with you. I'm not interested in a restaurant that charges $140 a head. Even Peter Luger's is cheaper than that. Jamie, where did you get that number from?

[MVSNYC]

edited smart ass comment.

[bijoem]

Jeff jokes.... but if there was no Staten Island - his pool of potential clients would be halved. I am going to buy him an "I Love Staten Island" T-shirt one day.


Staten Island can't touch Manhattan as far as restaurants go.

Even if it was magically convenient for everyone, the restaurants just can't compare.


Jeff mentioned Sparks. I've never been there - so I say that sounds like a good one. If not that place, I would vote for Ben Bensons (better than Peter Luger's in my opinion..... thats right - I said it Barry).

January 28, correct?

[MVSNYC]

Barry- ya failed me...you're making me organize this thing from China?

oyster bay? i hate going below 40th street in manhattan... just joshin' ya Jamie...thanks for the offer, but as Barry said, he can't even get us on the A train out to Brooklyn, let alone the LIRR.

what about next wed (1/27)?

how about Merchants (they are one of the only bars in the City where you can smoke Cigars).

i'm thinking, this time, we have cigars & cognac, and order some appetizers, rather then doing a big "sit-down" dinner.

we can do a drink at my new apartment (2 blocks away), either before or after Merchants...

http://www.nyccigarbar.com/

thoughts?
MS

[barrysloate]

Hi Michael- I didn't know you could get an internet connection in a Chinese prison. As I mentioned Wednesdays are bad for me. The closest any of us have come to a consensus is Thursday the 28th. Can you do that? And you should unquestionably be handling this.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Blunder19

Barry,

I thought the ring of 50% discount might persuade a few NYC loyalists..

Theres nothing like seeing a $1,400 bill for 10 or so guys get chopped in half to $700...

well let me know where it will be ...even if not at rothmans ...and I will try to get there..

We could also try a long island dinner another night and get to rothmans that time.

Holy crap! You could feed 50 at a good steakhouse in Nebraska for $1400.

Dan

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Holy crap! You could feed 50 at a good steakhouse in Nebraska for $1400.

Dan

Yes, but the problem is you need to eat that steak in Nebraska.

[barrysloate]

Doesn't Nebraska have a lot of cows?

[calvindog]

Yes, exactly.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Yes, but the problem is you need to eat that steak in Nebraska.

Yep....and we're buried under two feet of snow and at the moment teetering on disaster as the temperature is hovering at 33F and it's raining. One degree from total doom.

[calvindog]

Seriously -- two feet of snow?

[barrysloate]

It's like early spring in New York these days. Sunny and in the 40's.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by calvindog

Seriously -- two feet of snow?

We had the worst December in my lifetime...25" combined in two knockout punch storms in back to back weeks. My kid has had SIX snow days already, add in Xmas break and he's only been to school a handful of days in the last month...it's also been as cold as I can ever remember, getting down to -20F...add on about 10 more inches of snow in two or three other minor storms and we've got a lot of snow still on the ground...fortunately the rain in the last two days has melted some of it, but it could be really bad if the temp drops down.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

We had the worst December in my lifetime...25" combined in two knockout punch storms in back to back weeks. My kid has had SIX snow days already, add in Xmas break and he's only been to school a handful of days in the last month...it's also been as cold as I can ever remember, getting down to -20F...add on about 10 more inches of snow in two or three other minor storms and we've got a lot of snow still on the ground...fortunately the rain in the last two days has melted some of it, but it could be really bad if the temp drops down.

Somewhere to the east, a little man laughs and laughs with glee.

[calvindog]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

We had the worst December in my lifetime...25" combined in two knockout punch storms in back to back weeks. My kid has had SIX snow days already, add in Xmas break and he's only been to school a handful of days in the last month...it's also been as cold as I can ever remember, getting down to -20F...add on about 10 more inches of snow in two or three other minor storms and we've got a lot of snow still on the ground...fortunately the rain in the last two days has melted some of it, but it could be really bad if the temp drops down.

That is totally insane, I don't know how you guys deal with this every year. The biggest misnomer living in NYC is that because it's in NY we get a lot of snow -- the opposite is true. We had a bizarrely huge snowstorm right before Christmas last month, about 10 inches or so; however, sometimes we go through an entire winter in NYC with no appreciable snowfall. The outer boroughs obviously get a lot though not Nebraska-like. Though if I recall, when I was a kid, I loved the snow and the snow days so your kid must be psyched. It just sucks as an adult.