{"id":130,"date":"2009-11-01T18:09:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T22:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-11-09T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T00:00:45","slug":"new-york-minute-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2009\/11\/new-york-minute-8\/","title":{"rendered":"New York minute\/Early November 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good: PDT in the East Village, where a little horde of us headed after a friend\u2019s superb photography <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anastasia-photo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">opening<\/a> as guests of the gallery owner and where I could safely guess our experience was not the norm. It\u2019s secreted alongside the Crif hot dog joint on St. Marks Place, a sleek narrow room with booths, a bar and taxidermed animals (ours was an otter, teeth bared in a grin, with a lace cap on). I had an excellent St. Rita cocktail to start, with Champagne and rye as I recall, then wisely switched to wine, which the waitress would have been wise to identify as Dr. Frank riesling &#8212; she would not have needed to bring tastes of it and the Chardonnay to reassure us it would not be too fruity. Otherwise the service was superb. Dinner was a Lebanese buffet brought in from nearby Al Diwan, and everything I tasted was good enough to make me want to give it a real try someday, particularly the hummus, borek and baklava. Best of all was the noise level: Music was playing, but six of us in a booth could hear each other babble. WIGB? Not likely &#8212; I\u2019m not that cool. 212 614 0386.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good: PDT in the East Village, where a little horde of us headed after a friend\u2019s superb photography opening as guests of the gallery owner and where I could safely guess our experience was not the norm. It\u2019s secreted alongside the Crif hot dog joint on St. Marks Place, a sleek narrow room with&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/2009\/11\/new-york-minute-8\/\">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":[103,40,101,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","category-east-village","category-lebanese","category-speakeasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gastropoda.com\/trails\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}