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Tag 54 / 2. Nov.: Last Football Sunday

Für die letzten Tage meines Trips hatte ich mir nichts mehr besonderes oder sagen wir vielmehr nichts mehr spezielles vorgenommen, sondern einfach nur nochmal die Stadt New York zu genießen und die Atmosphäre aufzusaugen. Dazu zählt in meinem Falle natürlich einen typischen Football Sonntag vollends auszukosten - und das auch noch ohne den "Stress" ein Spiel meiner Packers zu verfolgen, da die Jungs spielfrei hatten. Dank der Zeitverschiebung begannen die ersten Spiele ja erst um 13 Uhr, so dass noch ausreichend Zeit für ein Frühstück war. Allerdings hatte ich zum ersten Mal kein Glück bei der Auswahl des Cafés/Restaurants: obwohl das "Café Luluc" bei Yelp http://www.yelp.de/biz/cafe-luluc-brooklyn ziemlich gut bewertet wird, war es wie ich finde richtig schlecht - und zwar in allem. Atmosphäre, Essen, Service. Naja, man kann nicht immer Glück haben und dazu kann ich so einmal dem Eindruck entgegenwirken, dass auf Blogs, Facebook & Co immer nur geschrieben wird, wie amazing alles ist ;-).

Für meinen vorerst letzten NFL Sunday in den USA hatte ich mich an einen Tipp für Sportbars von Greg erinnert und ging ins nahegelege "Union Grounds" (http://www.union-grounds.com/). 

Back in NY for another NFL Sunday

Ein von Christian Fichter (@christian_f78) gepostetes Foto am Nov 11, 2014 at 10:04 PST

Auch auf die quasi sichere Gefahr hin (macht diese Formulierung überhaupt Sinn?), dass mich nun die meisten spätestens jetzt für völlig gestört halten werden, verbrachte ich exakt an diesem Platz an der Bar dann ca. 10 Stunden.

IMG 6082 from Christian Fichter on Vimeo.

Dazu gab insgesamt einem Shrimp Burger...

...und gefühlte 27 Bud Light...

Ich hab das Zeug nur getrunken, weil die tatsächlich an dem Abend kein anderes Bier mehr hatten. Gut ist: das Zeug trinkt sich wie Wasser und es ist unmöglich davon betrunken zu werden. Als Deutscher fragt man sich da natürlich: und warum zur Hölle sollte man dann solch ein Bier trinken??? Und wie der Ami dann für gewöhnlich sagen würde: Oh this is a great question.

Anyway. Nach also ganz schön viel Football gucken und ebenso viel über Footbal und Sport reden mit Jared  und Jenson, den zwei Barkeepern, ging es dann ziemlich müde nach Hause... 

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Among the many small cafés on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens is Café LuLuc. Their menu offers a wide selection of food, everything from pancakes to hanger steak. What caught my attention when I stepped inside wasn't their collection of wines but the neat lineup of magazines along the wall (How many cafés have you been to which have provided literature with your meal?). After dinner, head next door to Clover Club which serves fantastic cocktails. My personal favorite was the Hemingway Cobbler.

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The End of the World (2010) at Cafe LuLuc

John, Tamara and I went to Cafe LULUc for New Year's dinner before we got shitty (especially John).

We provide a poignant analysis of the meal (via GChat and iPhone photos) below. The information age right?!

Yelena:  enough about boys. let's talk about food. ok so new years 2010 dinner. pretty good dinner. is that a good review, do you think?

Tamara:  pretty descriptive, i don't think we need to say anything else

Yelena:  we always eat food that might make us puke before new years

Tamara:  it's more acceptable to have a food excuse than to admit you drank two bottles of andré alone

Yelena:  no one did that this year. not you not me.

Yelena: ok CAFE LULUC. this place is good, thanks for suggesting it john. it's on smith street, everybody go there.

Tamara:  i don't even know how you pronounce the name, so you can't really tell someone about it in person

Yelena:  it's easy. it's LOU-LUKE. but softer.

Tamara:  that's boring, french is boring

Yelena:  i thought you might hate it but i saw some cheese and pork options on the menu and realized that we might be ok.

Tamara:  yeah, the vegetable selections were sparse enough

Yelena:  we got a mussell and crab/clam (which one) soup. which was HARDLY a soup. i mean that in the best way possible. it tasted like mussels in butter sauce

Tamara:  it was literally eating mussels and calling the sauce a soup

Yelena:  but i think they were being politically correct

Tamara:  with delicious crab bits

Yelena:  CRAB. ok it was crab. i wanted to dip my bread in it but i was afraid of seeming rude

Tamara:  i was going to drink the leftovers directly from the bowl but someone told me not to. john supported me

Yelena:  sorry i thought we should start the new year off on a classier note

Tamara:  it was on their new year menu, so Y'ALL MISSED OUT

Yelena:  yeah, exactly. if you want to get the butter mussel soup. don't go to cafe luluc

Tamara:  just go to unlimited mussel night at chez oskar and take the mussels out of the shells.  boom mussel soup

so we killed that soup and john had a 7-up

i ate a piece of fruit from my sangria - it was weird, like an orange or something?

Yelena:  that sangria wasn't worth it. it was cheap but it wasn't strong enough

Tamara:  5 dollars for juice

Yelena:  because obviously when you're going to a restaurant to eat nice food you should also be getting totally fucked up.

however, on thursday nights they have half off champagne and wine

so just as a heads up, that's what we'll probably be doing on a thursday night.

Tamara: but like don't come there. i'm not trying to see the internet when i'm eating, thanks

Yelena:  haha, we want to hang out alone, don't come when we're there.

  Yelena: main course go. what'd you get bro?

   Tamara:  i'm trying to start 2011 on a real fat note so i got the tortellini

 Yelena:  with mushroom truffle cream sauce and shaved asiago cheese

Tamara:  yeah except the sauce was basically cheese sauce which was AMAZING. cause i'd like all 3 components of my dish to be cheese

Yelena:  it reminded me of my mom's mushroom soup. it was basically like eating butter.

Tamara:  yo for real, yesterday i discovered what mushrooms taste like. i didn't know before but that was mushrooms

Yelena:  the mushrooms were definitely really good and earthy. but i don't think i could eat a whole dish of that

Tamara: i didn't finish it, i was comatose around halfway through

Yelena:  it was kinda one-note, if you know what i mean. not to say that i wasn't picking off melted asiago bits.

Tamara:  you had your hands all up in that business well after i mentally fell asleep

Tamara:  you ordered something way better than i did

Yelena:  i had the crab burger with fennel and a shaved apple mesclun salad on top

Tamara:  should we talk about it?  i still taste it (brushed my teeth today)

Yelena:  that's not on the menu either! i tried to look it up to see what the exactly components were and it wasn't on the menu. maybe they just added it

but jesus christ, that was basically one of the best things i ate this year.

Tamara:  i had a bite of it, the crab was so flavorful

Yelena:  I KNOW. it was fennel. the french fries were basically a waste of space. they should've made more of that salad on top

Tamara:  there was some delicious acidity to it, probably from the salad

Yelena:  that was the apple

i usually hate fennel

but it seasoned the burger perfectly

it was on a loser bun

they dropped the ball on that, i didn't eat the bun

Tamara: that bun was seriously some america's choice white rose sesame seed garbage

Yelena:  heads up, cafe luluc, put your crab burger on a brioche bun or some shit

Tamara:  you advertised this place to me with brioche.i was disappointed, lou-luke.

Yelena:  that's what they said, buttered brioche. there was no brioche

Yelena:  if i ate the crab burger with the sesame bun it would've tasted like a baloney sandwich

just eat it like a piece of fish with salad fuck the bun.

Yelena:  i'd just like to take this moment to say that this place had ricard pastis (you know the drink) ads ALL OVER IT

and once again, i was so tempted to get it

if you just see a picture of it, it looks like lemonade beer

but that's a trick. it's anise flavored

Tamara:  you're blowing my mind, i don't even know what this is

Tamara:  oh it's like a liqueur or whatever

Yelena:  yes. anthony bourdain (who i'm obviously obsessed with) drinks it when he goes to the south of france.

  Yelena:   one time i ordered it when i went to bar tabac. i got a tiny glass for probably $7.00

Tamara:  you fancy arrigh

Yelena:  no, i couldn't finish it. i took one sip and almost puked  it was like drinking black licorice juice

Tamara:  you say lemonade beer and i'm like yo, estrella with lemonade in spain

Yelena:  THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I THINK OF. the moral of the story is please don't get the ricard even if the ads look really tempting. you'll puke.

  Yelena: ok WHAT DID JOHN GET

Tamara:  PORK

Yelena:  i wish john was here to talk about it aol chatroom style

Yelena: i think i liked john's food more than he liked his food

Tamara: let's just hype it! cause i thought it was wild.  john really makes the best food choices

Yelena:  he got a pressed pulled pork sandwich with fontina cheese and garlic aoili

Yelena: someone asked me yesterday if the pulled pork was in like a bbq sauce of a vinegar sauce. it definitely wasn't bbq, but was it vinegar?

Tamara:  it wasn't spicy

Yelena:  see john got the brioche. pressed brioche

Tamara:  too bad for them we're outing their bullshit. i think it was vinegar more than bbq, i have no idea, but there was a kick to it that wasn't spicy

  Yelena: i was obssessed with the texture of the sandwich. it was like hard and crunchy and soft and gooey and stringy

Tamara:  the bread was the perfect mix of soft and crunchy

Tamara: yo exactly

john said something like

how the sandwich just molded together to make one delicious thing and it was hard to taste the separate parts

i don't know if he liked that but that was my favorite part

fontina and pork and brioche welded together with aoili

Yelena:  i tasted everything because i am a smoker and have an excellent palate.

no but really, i did taste everything because the textures distinguished the flavors

Tamara:  bourdain smokes yeaaah

Yelena:  i love eating with john because he always lets me eat his food. i usually like his food more than my own. this year was a tie

Tamara:  it was a toss up, yeah. the salad had some mesclun in it

Yelena:  yeah i don't know what that was about, i didn't try it. was it good? you're not really a fair judge of salad 

Tamara:  actually i'm a huge fan of salad

you don't know me at all

i like salad-related vegetables

Yelena:  ok ms. salad, so how was the salad?

Tamara:  it was similar to yours in terms of flavor

Yelena:  so just delicious.

Tamara:  really acidic, nice kick, and the greens were crunchy as hayull

  Yelena:  i think that's all of it. i think we did a good job with new years dinner.

we were wearing dresses and shit, like adults

we didn't puke on ourselves

the food was delicious.

  Tamara:  i even had my dress zipped up all the way finally

i had on some shoes

   Yelena:  yeah, i was wearing one shoe. big pat on the back guys

 Tamara:  good job to us

 Yelena:  thank you and happy new year read our blog, right?

 Tamara:  just don't come find us

 Yelena:  just please leave us alone but read our blog.

John's addendum: These girls talk a lot, right?. I only sorta half read whatever this was.  Maybe this is why i can't get a date. Um, the pulled pork sandwich was great but i think they said that, and in true french style was dry rubbed with herbs with NO sauce (no vinegar OR bbq sauce... you think we in carolina?) just the garlic aioli. I just told yelena i canceled my email address and now only want to be contacted via self adressed stamped envelopes. 2011, what.