Thursday, Mar. 13, 2003 - 11:43 am
if you guys (yes now i am addressing "you" out there) get the magazine "international gourmet", there will be an article in it about a veggie/organic place called "Counter"- if its a good review- don't believe it. (just go there for the organic wines and beers)
i am sad to say it- its a veggie place, new ( we like to give a new place a chance..), beautiful and well designed, waitress nice and friendly etc- across from McDonalds, which is funny, but, if you are hungry i'd say go down the block to Kates.
i hate when food is political. when you need to have some kind of "knowledge" into the food world to be able to convice yourself why you should swallow what you just chewed... "Hey this tastes awful", "well if you knew the value of cooking lentils this way you'd know that blah blah", "well this is awful too and its a carrot" "you have to accent the carrot taste with a hint of blah blah" they have things there you'd recognize- chocolate cake for example-
in name only though (imagine the good ol' child days eating crunchy dark rich MUD and add the texture of grains of sand, and then put a not so bad coating of chocolate on top and there you have it)..
i am sure there are explanations behind every dish, some belief system behind every choice of ingredient and cooking them together- but grainy bland, soggy dull, and "okay this was 'ok'", and just plain bad- is what comes out.
rick liked his dish, but then it was covered in red peppers, he likes red peppers, but from what i can see and for what they charge there should have been more than red peppers making it okay.
its sad because being across the street from McD's is actually great for food-style politicians. someone might wander over thinking "hey i know greasy burgers will kill me one day- let me just see what all the hype is about- veggie food and "health stuff""... they will run screaming back to the ol' clown and beg for a cheeseburger.
Kates on the other hand is the kind of food that could change a meaty eatin' person into a veggie. but i am sure the people at "Counter" would look down their nose at Kates, you could just taste the emporer's new clothes. concept in the bland food- if you don't like it sweetie then you just aren't knowledgable and cool.
okay fine.
i also got the impression later that we weren't what they wanted there as the cameras were taking pix for the article. everyone there but the waitress looked like alterna martha stewarts in horn rimmed glasses. rick who is a fun and wonderful person made a joke with one of the owners (she brought the organic wine menu over and he joked something like why bother to not put alcohol in a drink?) and she actually didn't even pretend to smile but rolled her eyes and made a huff sound.
you think they made the food suck so we wouldn't come back? well it worked :)
they must have a fear of anyone with really long shiny hair, maybe it was what rick calls my "John cassavetes" jacket the color of mac n' cheese and nicely aged and shredded, maybe it was my black velvet top shirt and gauzy long black dress and his cute smile and black leather coat in a sea of pale blue denims- who knows.
i would love if all the world would hold hands and live in peace and eat spicy tofu (but please keep the sinful evil diet coke mm mm mm
) but this place is the kind to make you want to stand there in their big front window eating something red and drippy.
its just sad when something comes a long i'd like to support, want to see more of in this neighborhood- but goes out of their way to be... not good at all, and seemingly with a purpose. sorry but i was always the kid who would have pointed at the "emporer" and said "hey that man is naked!"
hey that food sucked, sorry to say.
eat a veggie burger at 7A, eat fake fried chicken at Kates, eat veggie Pad Thai at KaiKai's and tofu hot dogs you'll be just fine here :)
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