At a recent meeting of the circulation department - (which typically meets when I am wedged into a corner of a downtown rush hour express train, sweating like a pig and unable to open my newspaper) it was decided that to get my blog readership up from its current circulation - estimated at somewhere between 3-4 people to whom I am related - it was time to add a useful feature from someone who actually knows something -my wife Lori who reads the entertainment and weekend section and actually remembers things she reads, as well as what we ordered and how it was- has reluctantly agreed to being draqooned into letting me stick in her suggestions as long as I dont get too annoying - then she left for work.
this weeks restaurant tip
Camino Sur
336 W 37th St (Cross Street: Between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue)
New York, NY 10018
(212) 695-4600
Great south american food
We enjoyed the duck arepa appetizer (arepa is a corn based south american polenta) - delicious lamb shank entree and the lobster stew was rich and interesting and although listed as an appetizer was big enuf for an entree (note to self - read some real restaurant reviews to steal some better adjectives) - cool looking interior - as you walk west on 37th you will wonder if you are on the wrong block in the garment district until just before 9th Avenue -right next to the Zipper theatre with Jacques Brel is Alive and Well etc The waiter was nice enuf to accomodate our group of pregeezers by turning down the blaring music so we could hear each other. In a few years I will be one of those old jews in a Jackie Mason routine switching tables and complaining about how drafty it is. At this point you're saying "Hey what the hell is going on here? It thought this was a restaurant review" - well so did I - who knew?
By the way and unfortunately the bread basket had these warm, thickly cut squares of fresh bread, deliciously seasoned and served with some kind of olive mush dip on the side.
Update
To quote the late great philosopher Allen Sherman's letter from camp - "mudda fadda kindly disregard this letta"
We recently went back (Nov 14, 2006) this time the food was disappointingly mediocre - those seasoned bread squares were gone - the lobster stew mostly potatoes -
