Bouillabaisse Bicyclist Restaurant Critic Rides Again

[pardes]

I've been busy writing blogs about bicycles!

Okay, picture this. I walk into a VERY upscale restaurant wearing my bicycle helmet, a battered velour vest, and dragging my loaded panniers spilling out cameras, books, and rain gear.

Was I greeted with HORROR? Find out here.

And then I tackled what it really means to give up your car and do EVERYTHING on a bicycle. Guess how many hours of planning and execution it took to attend a one hour meeting? It's astonishing!

Such things make me admire the members of Team Estrogen even more.

Now I have to get back to a search for a pilot of a tandem bicycle to take a blind cyclist out for a ride in Newark, Delaware. Won't some of you MOVE TO DELAWARE, please?

[maillotpois]

That review made me hungry!!

[Blueberry]

That review made me hungry!!

Me too! And I don't even eat beef....

[Crankin]

I love Newark! We stopped there for a night on the way home from Hilton Head one year. I wish I had eaten at this place. Maybe next time.

[SadieKate]

I do eat beef. Pass me some . . .

[PamNY]

Great review, Pardes! Have you considered not telling them you are a restaurant critic? Apparently the pros wear disguises, etc. I don't know if it's really necessary to take things that seriously -- just a thought!

[pardes]

Great review, Pardes! Have you considered not telling them you are a restaurant critic? Apparently the pros wear disguises, etc. I don't know if it's really necessary to take things that seriously -- just a thought!

No, I usually don't tell them. In this case I had already been in the restaurant for some time and was treated royally BEFORE I mentioned it.

I'm hankering for their pan seared rabbit right now.

[oxysback]

Great review! Love the sugar and tea description. Hilarious! I'm the same way with my (herbal) tea. Don't spare the sugar!!

[marni]

Great review, Pardes! Have you considered not telling them you are a restaurant critic? Apparently the pros wear disguises, etc. I don't know if it's really necessary to take things that seriously -- just a thought!

What the bike outfit and helmet aren't disguise enough?

marni

[bmccasland]

At least this time you got your steak the way you like it! Maybe you'll find bouillabaisse yet.

[crazycanuck]

Mmmmm...*drool* Looks like a good place to eat!! mmmmm..

[kacie tri-ing]

What I fun blog! I loved it! Keep on writing!

[smilingcat]

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Some said you are making me so hungry for meat. but the title said "Bouillabaisse Bicyclist Restaurant Critic Rides Again"

but Bouillabaisse is fish stew... it has no meat whatso ever.

Then I read one of the best restaurant review I've ever read. Then it made sense. I really love Pardes writing and description. I wish food critic could write like Pardes.

Such wonderful writeup and I did visit their web site and their menu. Too bad I live on the West Coast.

[ummbnb]

Butter. Poached. Beef. OH MY!!! <drool>

[pardes]

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Then I read one of the best restaurant review I've ever read. Then it made sense. I really love Pardes writing and description. I wish food critic could write like Pardes.

Such wonderful writeup and I did visit their web site and their menu. Too bad I live on the West Coast.

WOW. Thank you so much. I've been having a blast with writing articles about cycling in my own very low-key advocate way. I started the "bouillabaisse" thing on a lark to point out how few restaurants and businesses have bike racks...you know to raise the consciousness a little in Newark. Once I realized that hey, I'm combining this with "EATING" well oh my gawd, what could be better.

I'm working on a review now of an Afghan restaurant, a tiny little place, where I worked my way through their menu trying to find something that wasn't spiced too HOT. I finally stopped believing the owner when he kept pointing to a new dish on the menu and kept saying, "No hot. NO HOT. Promise."

I tell you, I have spent quite a bit of time worshiping the marble font in the bathroom over that promise. But hey, bicycle advocates have to pay the price. And plus now the owner of the Afghan restaurant and I have become friends. When I walk in he shouts back to the cook, "Chicken! No SAUCE!"

Thanks again for your kind words.

Pardes