Thursday, October 10, 2013

"New York restaurant has no-talking menu"

"The latest in New York City dining? Eating in silence."
                  
A restaurant in Brooklyn's trendy Greenpoint neighborhood is serving up a four-course meal of organic, locally-sourced food, but isn't allowing any chit-chat.
 
Epicurious.com Editor-in-Chief Tanya Steel says the silent eating experience sounds like yet another facet of the sensory-dining eating out fad. Some restaurants offer diners the chance to consume in the dark. Other gastronomical joints feature the ability to consume not just the food - but the menu on which it is described.
 
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After having discussions with president Obama regarding the government shutdown and the raising of the national debt ceiling, the republicans quietly slipped out of the white house a short time ago.
 

16 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

If this catches on...Where's Weiner going to eat? He can't shut up.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Trooper is banned from there.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I just sort of assumed that the Senate commissary had been shut down.

bagoh20 said...

Is this where Obama eats his waffles now?

Revenant said...

New York has a lot of restaurants. How jaded does a person have to be with the available options to try this place?

ricpic said...

The restaurant employs specially trained progressive bouncers to throw out anyone caught eye talking.

Lipperman said...

I wonder if you can text the waitstaff for another round of drinks, or if sign language is okay. You know, the 'old raised hand with circular motion on the downward pointing index finger'? I bet they LOVE that in NY city.

Chip Ahoy said...

Go with your deaf friends and talk all you want. Even "Nanner nanner boo boo stick your head in doo doo."

I was doing a Giada De Laurentis imitation, involving two oranges, yanking my t-shirt down so the oranges pop out together in front, and using four fingers to stretch my lips around my teeth, and push my whole grill out, that precludes cooking something because both hands are widening my mouth, and the whole time I'm thinking, "Jesus Christ, how does she do this unassisted?" You'd have to wear a mechanical mouth stretcher that rips your mouth for a year to stretch it like that. "The butter is soft" *crush crush * and the pecans are crunchy *crush crush * and the brown sugar is yummy *crush crush*
and the whipped eggs are fluffy *crush crush* and the coating is crisp *crush crush*, she has one sign, and for an Italian especially that's bad, her hands should be waving all over the place naturally expressive, but she's not so she relies on her teeth and her tits instead. And that suites me just fine. But. All that goes into imitating her.

Michael Haz said...

Giada cooks on her show???

I'll need to watch even more closely.

Palladian said...

I cannot bear the sound of people chewing food or gulping drinks. I have to have music playing during dinner if there isn't enough ambient sound to cover up the eating noises.

Imagine the chewing sounds in a whole restaurant full of non-talking people. Revolting.

bagoh20 said...

It's really good to hear from you Palladian.

Stop being so meager, occasional, sparse, sporadic, uncommon, few and far between, isolated, limited, scant, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional spasmodic, unusual,

recherché.

Michael Haz said...

I can't stand being in a noisy restaurant. Hate it. Restaurants have become noisier, it seems, with the patrons yelling, laughing, arguing and so on. The din makes having a normal conversation impossible. And there is no reason for it, other than lack of manners.

I'd patronize a no- talking restaurant. Heck, I'd become a regular if the food was good.

ampersand said...
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Palladian said...

It's really good to hear from you Palladian.

Stop being so meager, occasional, sparse, sporadic, uncommon, few and far between, isolated, limited, scant, scarce, scattered, seldom, semioccasional spasmodic, unusual...


I can't make any promises, but I shall do my best.

Palladian said...

What exactly is food locally sourced in Greenpoint?

There are a lot of urban beekeepers and artisanal mayonnaise emporia in the vicinity.

Known Unknown said...

Do you order your food via sign language?