Reader and NewCity: Reviews Vs. The Superbowl

Our apologies to Mike Sula, Anne Spiselman, and Michael Nagrant, who are the authors of the three restaurant reviews and one pre-Superbowl catering option roundup that this post recaps. Why apologies? Because it is almost going-home time on Friday and we are not, as Ice Cube would like us to do, putting our back into it. Don’t click that link if you’re at work and your speakers are on. Do click it if you like late 90’s hip hop that doesn’t stint on the dancing=sex innuendo.

• The Reader has mini-reviews of three restaurants that are each, in their way, new. Trader Vic’s has newly reopened (Sula can’t help but love it, even though the menu’s inconsistent); La Trattoria del Merlo is just flat-out new (Sula enjoys the food, but the portion/price ratio’s hard to swallow); and Farmerie 58 has a new chef (Spiselman hits high highs and low lows on the menu, but desserts are solid).

• Over in NewCity, if you haven’t made your Superbowl plans and don’t want to pull the rug out of your guests with yet another year of mediocre guacamole and whatever off-brand tortilla chips are left at the grocery store, Mike Nagrant is ready and waiting with a half-dozen takeout options for the discerning host or hostess, from Take Me Out’s seemingly made-for-the-Superbowl Little Hotties to sugarbombs from Old Fashioned Donuts, it’s an easy road to a memorable spread. Speaking from personal experience here, sometimes there’s more glory in catering with style than there is in cooking with crappitude.

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Reader and NewCity: Reviews Vs. The Superbowl