Sushi Smackdown: Shitake can’t hold a candle to JPAN

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I love it when I get new takeout menus in the mail—the creepy, cryptic return addresses written in scary handwriting. I think, this is it—the mob has finally tracked me down and is sending me this letter to let me know that they’re going to kill me for my indiscretions (read: my big, fat mouth). My adrenaline kicks in as I rip open the envelope to see yet another take-out menu. Ah, safe for another day.

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ZuZu Ramen Open In 3..2..1...[NOW]

There's already mad chatter about this mofo on Brooklynian. And a review on ChowHound.

Anyone been to Zuzu yet? Cause despite the Moutarde smackdown, all this talk is making me v. fucking hungry...

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Eff You, Moutarde

I’m always up for trying new restaurants in the neighborhood, so I was excited to go to Moutarde (239 5th Ave, on the corner of Carroll St.) on Valentine’s Day.

The long and short of it was that our food was mediocre and the service absolutely sucked. The fifteen-year-old waitress couldn’t tell us the specials because “they were still figuring them out” despite the fact that it was 6pm.

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HOLY SHIT, You Guys: Diddy did A Food off! Popeyes vs. KFC.

Now, I'm not much of a chicken person myself, but the biscuits at Popeyes produce a feeling in me that is similar to what I imagine shooting up heroin would feel like. Though KFC does have lots of good sauce choices. Eh, fuck it...based on the biscuit sitch alone, I think I'd have to go with Popeyes

Needless to say, we're chomping at the bit to hear who, ultimately, came out victorious in Diddy's eyes.

Which one do you dig?

Chipshop Scandal: Teenagers Are Bad Tippers?!

Apparently so.

And the Chip Shop ain't havin it:

"Today at lunch I witnessed a small group of young guys - three or four, who all looked about 16 years old - get refused service at Chip Shop for being under 18. They were turned away before they could even sit down."

"The waiter told the guys it was "policy." Afterwards some other patrons questioned the waiter & the thrust of the waiter's explanation was that young people are bad tippers."

What the???

I thought since teenagers were spending mommy and daddy's money, they'd be killer tippers? Anyway, the Chip Shop *is* the one place in town that serves fried candy bars...and teenagers are mostly pretty fucking annoying...so I don't really give a rat's ass that they are busting em out of there.

Do you?

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