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A new BYOB "Twelves" just opened in an old bank building in West Grove of all places. We've been turned away for lack of reservations a couple times, but made it in last Thurs night when it was half empty.
The menu is bistro-oid... crab mac and cheese...steak frites... seared scallops all well executed and presented nicey.
Chef previously was at the Back Burner in Hockessin, Farmhouse in Avondale ( a favorite of mine), and Dilworthtown Inn.
Service was a little slow and the plates had odd design that made it hard to cut meat without tipping the plate. Three dined for about $100 without dessert.
All-in-all a good new place worthy of a visit.
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The "fun facts" about each were incredibly stupid/lame. Too lame to have been a joke. A PR moron with no supervision at work here.
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Mario on the show in the 9/21 NY Magazine:
"The central implicit conceit of the program, in a way, is that the idea of Batali and Gwyneth’s touring the Prado with Ferran Adrià isn’t a trumped-up, made-for-TV fiction: It’s a kind of a vérité window into how he really lives.
Batali knows that the show, for this reason and others, isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea. That his critics will find it infuriating, and that others may see the spectacle as meandering, pointless, painfully self-indulgent. “My worry is, how many times can you watch me eating something and saying, ‘Boy, that’s good,’ before you say, ‘Fuck you! I’m not tasting the shit!,’ ” he frets. “That there’s no real payoff for the customer other than saying, ‘Hey, they’re having a great time, this is a great show.’ The blogs that hate it are gonna be like, ‘Who the fuck cares that he’s eating with Gwyneth Paltrow, she’s a vegan anyway,’ or whatever.”"
So Mario gets it. It'd be better with him and Bourdain.
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Good points, doc.
I'd add that losing some of the nutrition in a food is not the biggest crime in the world. And side dishes, which presumably wouldn't be slow-cooked too would compensate.
Most of us are overnourished anyway.
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Woof!
I think I'd smoke a tenderloin. Slice it thin and serve it as a cold app with a rosemary port reduction and fresh basil garnish and a few sliced cherry tomatoes.
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where does one get pork tenderloins 4 for $2?
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What stupidity! A lawsuit waiting to happen. A public health menace. It would never pass muster with the FDA. Probably a law that covers it already.
Oy!
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OK, I just learned what bibimbop is and I find it even more amazing that it would be the customer's choice over more usual stuff. I'm sure that yours is delicious, even transporting in its wonderfulness, but the description at various websites is not very impressive and this adventurous eater would choose a reubin over bibimbob every time.
So why was it the leader? Maybe it looked really pretty on the table. Perhaps the prettiest people had ordered it and looked great eating it.
Or maybe there was a Korean convention in town.
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but .pdf doesn't work on all handhelds.
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I intellectually understand the motivations for using pdfs for menus, but like Holly, I just have a visceral aversion to them. It does indeed interrupt the flow of the web browsing experience, and the pdfs very often don't display as well as a web page does. When I'm clicking through a restaurant's website, I want information to come up quickly and smoothly. If I just want to take a quick look at a menu and my browser starts opening Acrobat, I tend to close the window and move on, and the odds of my going to that restaurant just went down.
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I agree with you. What a pain it is to have an acrobat attack. I blow it away most of the time.
This is another version of the Open Table debate. Will a restaurant lose business if it doesn't cater to the convenience of prospective diners?
Yes it will.
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I'm not sure I could handle anything more fabulous.
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I tried to read it today and was given a log-in request as though it is now a limited access site.
That would be a sad thing. Shola's site was fabulous.
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Several years ago it occurred to me that there are enough serious cooking amateurs to rent out a restaurant for a night to cook for their friends in a "pro" setting.
It could be a charity deal, where the friend/patrons pay and the "profit" would go to a worthy cause.
Lots of bugs in this idea, but perhaps the seed of something do-able.
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Perhaps the next wing bowl will feature Chef Georges' wing of the chicken a la Buffalo.
Or entrecote avec fromage "wit"
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Good grief. LBF is advertising on WIP sports radio.
I think there'll be TVs and a shuffleboard game in there soon. Perrier's Sports Bar?
Hootier's perhaps?
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Sandra Lee for sure if cooking is the area of hopelessness.
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I've had a digital taylor pocket probe thermometer that was labeled as a "pro model" of some sort that reads well into deep fry temps. About $25. It hasn't failed in >1 year and I just love the thing.
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Bernz-o-matic torch at any hardware store.
Re burning bugs- when I was a kid our crazed neighbor set his house on fire using a torch to burn the cobwebs out of his cellar ceiling. I insisted then, as I do now, that I had nothing to do with it. I'm sticking to this story.
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We are occasionally in Park City and wonder what's good there. I've eaten at The Tree Room in Sundance which was great once and just OK once. Shabu was pretty good; a lively place with an asian oriented menu. What have we missed?
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So what did you think, Rich? Any good places?
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Freezing flour is the key to be moth-free. We had big problems for a while and now none in years. After a few days freezing we put flour into a tight latched container or one with a heavy pottery lid.
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I've read too many remarks she' s made about how Euros are soooo much more civilized and cool than Americans. I'd watch only if I could photoshop her FOS presence out of the picture.
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The Good--Seingarten, Ruhlman, that ditzy actress in her 40s, The PR woman (Bakhoom?), Allen
The bad-Katayama, & assorted nobodies whose PR person got them the gig
The Ugly- Knowlton
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Pizza or chinese
Twelves in West Grove
in Pennsylvania: Dining
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Sounds like we got luckier with our meals than you did.
You are right about not being up to Philly standards. In fact it isn't even up to local standards (Farmhouse, Katherine's, Fair Hill Inn (very very good BTW)).
But, it is better than the Perkins in Avondale (which I'm told is the busiest Perkin's in the world...go figure) :-)