Tabla, NY
started by RS-K 2 mnths agoReplies
If so, it's very expensive (3 course dinner costs over $65).. More jazz.. pretty ordinary food.
I have been there only for lunch once. Don't know about dinner. Seafood is the speciality there.
why did you went to the men's room? wait. that is right. you replaced "m" with a "b" and you thought it is ben's room. i get it.
My dining companion described his confusion when, upon entering the men’s room, he encountered a large, chest-height metal cube resting on the floor with a pipe that extends from the top and disappears into the ceiling. There are recesses on two adjoining sides of the cube; one side opens into two large metal basins and spigots and a handle hang above each basin, while the other contains a long tray of ice. Yes, ice. Water streams down inside the recess when one moves away from the ice. Our server confirmed that this is indeed the urinal. She couldn’t explain the reasoning behind it and offered that “maybe it’s refreshing.” Her surprise that we’d figured it out ourselves, since “no one ever seems to figure it out,” was slightly disconcerting. In fact, I have to digress here to relate my friend’s experience on his return trip to the men’s room.
My friend -- for ease of storytelling, I’ll just call him Bob -- enters the restroom at the same time as another restaurant patron, and both approach different sides of the cube. Bob does his business at the tray of ice, while the other guy stands at the sinks for a long time. Guy steps away and notices the ice; looks between ice and sinks in momentary confusion. Bob asks, “What did you just do?” Guy looks down and mumbles, “Oh, shit. I just pissed in the sink.” By this time, three other men have entered, also scratching their heads in confusion at what looks like an ice machine in the men’s room. The guy shrugs and says, “Oh well, guess I’ll just wash my hands in the other sink.” Bob replies, “You could do that -- if it weren’t broken.” All in the restroom cringe inwardly. One wonders how often this sort of thing occurs and why management doesn’t clarify matters. One also hopes that visitors to the restroom don’t consider the ice consumptive refreshment.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V121/N57/Mantra.57a.html
When one can get good food at homes why go to these shops to get into unnecessary troubles.
Some restaurants are passable...but nothing to gloat over.
The mutter paneer, naan, Chole, etc..etc.. and the usual rub of the mill items are so so fed up why one needs to drive 10 miles or more to sit in a dungeon and eat THAT - God only knows.
I will settle for Chimmi Changa anyday for those items.
you must have forgotten what it means to be single. there is a HUGE difference in being a single person who rarely cooks something special at home vs having a woman in the house who likes to cook. ever since my house guest, who is a great cook, came here, I have had a lot of good food at home. I have myself resumed cooking good stuff more often. outside restaurants have become irrelevant to me now. it's a difference of day and night. I could not imagine this state of being just two weeks ago when I lived alone and constantly scanned online for restaurant reviews.
for example, in all my years of living in the US, my only choice for eating idli or dosa was to go to the restaurant and endure that bad stuff. I have eaten in restaurants where the vada was unbreakable even after soaking in the sambhar for several minutes. but within days of coming to my house, my guest made hot idli and chutney at home. it was fabulous. I did not even know I had all the ingredients and tools necessary to make idlis right here in my house! same thing for desserts and evening snacks. when I go home tired, I want to do nothing more than veg on the couch with the laptop or the tv or a book. she finds the energy to quickly whip up great stuff. there is something good to be said about some women, after all...
When one puts too much emphasis on food or anything they are making themselves vulnerable and desperate.
I am a lover of most foods - hot, sweet, and anything in between. But, the world would not end if I didnot eat half-baked lousy food in the restaurant. That is why there are temples everywhere and get religious on those days of special pooja.
P.S. I did not even have that option in those days... But, my friends were always furious bcz I (one of a very few select singlers) got friday and sat dinner invites from maamis... so I never really missed quality Indian food...
We went for the 3 course dinner. They serve nice naan with chutney as the 'bread basket'. We went for the veggie appetizers. You can pick anything from the veggie dinner menu, and the chef can make it appetizer size for you. I ordered The Johnny Cake thingie. It was awesome. Tasted kinda like our bhajia's but with a great sauce to go with it. For the main meal, I ordered Rice Flake Halibut. The dressing/sauce/topping that came with it was awesome to eat it with, and the watermelon tasted great. I don't remember what we ordered for dessert, but I finished it, even when I was full till full.
It was expensive for sure. Next time, we will try the downstairs room.
Johnny cakes are made with cornmeal, so it def sounds like you had the fusion flavor!
I've never been there, but I remember on TV for budget diners, they recommended Table. However, go for lunch menu ;-)
So Yada-yada-yada yesterday. You are too tired today?
Well. I walked close to 5 miles y'day.
To work, afternoon walk, to tabla, from tabla. Each almost 1.5 miles, on top of all the public x-port that I use.
Tired? No.
can you elaborate? did any of the following transpire: hot carl, cleveland steamer, tony danza, cincinatti bowtie, spider-man, blumpkin or hoagie shack?
Are these from Howard Stern or something??
## eww. height of perverism.