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  • #2247708
    lakewhut
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    In the age where everything has to look good for Instagram even a burger has to be complex. Does anyone else miss the old days of kosher delight or Dougie’s before it got way expensive to go to a restaurant?

    #2247876
    SACT5
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    I don’t use Instagram and am often amazed by the useless artistry that goes into food these days. It looks amazing but it tastes mediocre. If they want a repeat customer in me I’d prefer the opposite. I buy food to eat it not to catalog it.

    #2247894
    Gadolhadorah
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    Adding that small sprig of parsley to a mediocre burger raises it to lofty gourmet levels that an unadorned burger could never aspire to….like everything else in life, its form over substance….b’tavon!!

    #2247895
    Sam Klein
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    I’m honestly embarrassed to be a member of the generation we are all living in today called the generation of instant gratification and self-centeredness where everything is ME, ME & ONLY ME and if I have a chance maybe I’ll think about my neighbor or friend to help etc …… Did you ever hear of the America of today that we are all living in as being called living in Sedom?

    Hoping our middos change quickly so we can show Hashem that we are deserving and ready for the coming of Mashiach already bkarov

    #2247976
    yechiell
    Participant

    As one comedian put it: even the bathrooms now have signs like Romeo and Juliet, instead of Men and Ladies. One now needs a good education in Shakespeare to know what to do in these fancy restaurants !

    #2248103
    Gadolhadorah
    Participant

    “One now needs a good education in Shakespeare to know what to do in these fancy restaurants”
    The same thing you would do in the lav in a non-fancy restaurant. If still in doubt, use the gender neutral facilities many restaurants have now adopted

    #2248120
    Kuvult
    Participant

    Sam Klein,
    Speak for yourself. In the large community I’m from there is a Chesed league for boys & also for girls. They spend their free time doing various Chesed projects to help out the community.

    #2248156
    commonsaychel
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    @ Sam klein, are you seriously out of your mind?? Never in the history of the Jews has there been more chesed, starting with free meals for women postpartum and heavily subsidized kimperturim heims, to volunteer homework help, to keren chasinim and hacnosas kallahs to gemachs, hatzaolah, chavarim, shomrim, bikur cholim, chesed shel emes, this list goes on and on,
    I don’t know what planet your living on but it sure is not mine.

    #2248169
    Gadolhadorah
    Participant

    “I don’t know what planet your living on but it sure is not mine….”

    I think you are being a bit harsh. SK is the CR’s resident “sky is falling” trollster who is incredibly able to hijack just about any post or topic and turn it into a clarion call for us to do Tshuvah because we are no better than dor h’mabul and we are about to get another wake up call from the Ebeshter ch”v

    #2248496
    Yserbius123
    Participant

    Give me a Dougies beehive any day. A blooming onion topped with chopped brisket, fries, and honey barbeque sauce. It’s perhaps the least Instagrammable food imaginable outside of cholent.

    #2248498
    Yserbius123
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    I want all my restaurant food served to me Israeli style. I have to walk up to a counter and wait for the attention of an extremely irate looking man who acts like he is doing my THE BIGGEST FAVOR even though I’m the only one there. Then I place my order (obviously without bothering him to ask what’s on the menu) to have him shout back at me “WHAT TO PUT IN?”. Then one to fifteen minutes later hear my name shouted where I grab some mess of bread, vegetables and grilled turkey wrapped in wax paper served on a plastic disposable plate.

    #2248572
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    Yserbius,

    😂😂

    That’s the best way to be served!

    #2248844
    Kuvult
    Participant

    Yserbius,
    Very funny (& true)😂😂😂

    #2249267
    DontMindMe
    Participant

    How about the days when you could order a steak in an expensive restaurant for $50? Now a steak in freakin China Glatt is $50!
    Or remember when there were still restaurants in which you could actually decide if and how much you wanted to tip? Now a small meal in a decent restaurant will cost you a $30-$40 tip, no matter how your service was.

    #2249351
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    How cheap is your small meal, don’t mind me?

    $150?

    #2249399
    anonymous Jew
    Participant

    Remember when we had to walk to school uphill, both ways?

    #2249408
    Gadolhadorah
    Participant

    It is not unreasonable to charge $100/person for a fine-dining steak dinner in a restaurant with good service (inclusive of a glass of vintage wine, appetizer tax and tip). With the cost of kosher meat, hashgacha, commercial rents and labor costs, thats actually a relatively modest charge. Obviously, for most of us, its not a regular weekly indulgence but certainly a fair price for special occasions. There are still plenty of lower cost fast-food places where you can still feed a family of 4 for $100-$150.

    #2249412
    ☕️coffee addict
    Participant

    GH he said

    “Now a small meal in a decent restaurant will cost you a $30-$40 tip, no matter how your service was.“

    He didn’t say fine dining

    #2249715

    > when we had to walk to school uphill, both ways?

    you had to actually get out of the house to log into a class, grandpa?

    #2249903
    Gadolhadorah
    Participant

    A parve x/large “pizza’ topped with chulent, pineapple and veggie cheese will feed a family of 4 economically and would be a special treat for a Thursday night change from the usual gourmet fare

    #2249955
    SQUARE_ROOT
    Participant

    Over the past 20 years, I almost-never eat in restaurants.
    Not even pizza.

    But I do miss something from the kosher restaurants
    of the 1980s and 1990s: Kosher after-dinner mints.

    They tasted great, and now they are almost-impossible to find.

    #2257537
    leiby
    Participant

    Mosey Kosher Castle and Mcfleishigs on 16th in boro park
    are both simpler and old school and both are GREAT.

    #2257675
    usvidacapcbd
    Participant

    Kosher Castle and Mcfleishigs on 16th in boro park
    are both simpler and old school and both

    #2257852
    Gadolhadorah
    Participant

    Simpler and “old school” doesn’t necessarily mean better. There are lots of “new” restaurants in the NY metro area and other larger cities around the country with both good hashgacha, good food, and reasonable prices. Several months ago I had dinner at a well known kosher restaurant near the U.N where a burger was $55 and the schnitzel was $88. The quality was OK but you can get the same at half the price elsewhere if you don’t expense the tab. My point being that too many “old school” venues are simply tired, not well-maintained, haven’t updated their menus with healthier options and make you feel like they are doing you a favor for serving you.

    #2257855
    lakewhut
    Participant

    Big Fleishigs is very good.

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