{"id":1221,"date":"2024-01-08T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T20:16:16","slug":"hashtag-know-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2024\/01\/hashtag-know-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag Know Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How radically has the restaurant world changed since the pandemic began? We actually just had a better meal in Jersey City than we did at a NYT three-star joint in Nomad. One was early dinner, and one was brunch, but still. At the former, the very atmospheric <a href=\"https:\/\/madamejc.com\/\">Madame<\/a>, where my stomach sank when I saw the menu read like Bucks County, the kitchen split a surprisingly good kale Caesar for us, so we each got exactly half the ample portion of basil-dressed greens, avocado slices, halved green grapes, slivered fennel and generous sunflower seeds. The kale-cutting coulda been more refined, but the parts really made the whole. Then the super-tender, very flavorful hanger steak in au poivre sauce was also perfectly divided, with a little cup of truffle fries for each of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two days later we had a dainty plate of \u201clinzer\u201d beets with Little Gem lettuce and toasted hazelnuts set down between us at <a href=\"https:\/\/kolomanrestaurant.com\/\">Koloman<\/a>, and we had to ask for share plates. At least they were provided for the flavor-free pork schnitzel, which was fried to shoe leather and barely revived by the lingonberry sauce and redeemed by the (intricate) cucumber and (sloppy) potato salads.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wine presentation was much more fine-dining at Koloman, and my glass of Austrian sauvignon blanc was worth the $19 Bob paid. With two rounds of drinks, the tab was exactly $9 more at Madame. But to be fair, the cocktails in both establishments were too sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BTW: Jersey City was also vaut le PATH voyage for a huge loaf of amazingly crusty-soft sourdough bread from <a href=\"https:\/\/razzanj.com\/\">Razza<\/a> and a little shopping at <a href=\"https:\/\/coolvines-on-grove.business.site\/\">CoolVines on Grove<\/a>, where we scored some Duke&#8217;s mayonnaise plus a couple of bags of Rustichella d&#8217;Abruzzo pasta, the latter for all of $7 each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How radically has the restaurant world changed since the pandemic began? We actually just had a better meal in Jersey City than we did at a NYT three-star joint in Nomad. One was early dinner, and one was brunch, but still. At the former, the very atmospheric Madame, where my stomach sank when I saw&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2024\/01\/hashtag-know-hope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,171,161,172,170],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wigb","tag-austrian","tag-cocktails","tag-jersey-city","tag-nomad","tag-steak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}