SYMPATHY 4 THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY, http://sympathyfortherestaurantindustry.blogspot.com Options

[abbe]

If you miss following Sam Mason’s quixotic adventures now that the Launch is kaput, fear not — an anonymous blog Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry is offering “meta-fictional restaurant drama set in present day New York City, served in a convenient serial� and the first story details, in rather purple prose, the agonies of Sean Kasen (sounds kind of like Sam Mason if you mumble it, no?), a young, media-plagued chef opening his first restaurant who is up against “the punishment that comes when you attempt to create something perfect but fail� and also the fact that “being handsome and very talented when you are a chef is a burden.� Oh, the humanity!

The giveaway that the character, whose GM in the story is named Ian (just like at Tailor!) might just be based on our favorite blunderkind? “They were 4 months behind schedule, according to New York magazine, which had been documenting the progress of the project in its pages.� And then there’s Kasen’s rival Tommy Habana, who we can only assume is based on fellow pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini given this description of his Web page: “‘They said today on Eater that at least Tommy Habana has his website up,’ Julia the bar manager pointed out. ‘It’s just a bunch of sexy pictures of him and some bullshit bio. He's playing Mission to Mars.’�

How will young Sean Kasen cope with it all? And what will happen first, the conclusion of this story or the opening of Tailor? Meta indeed!

No Ticky, No Laundry [Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry]

http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/08/what_t...ou_wait_fo.html

welcome to the hottest new mutherfukking bitch on the block





(eehee heeee víva la revolucíon !!)

[Dick Johnson]

Ohhhhhh, Luuuuuuucy......

LOL.

[Dick Johnson]

[That's hott.]

[Ferret-n-Chicken...]

Is this blogger one of us????

[mss]

snax, are you back? we missed you...

[snax]

[abbe]

http://sympathyfortherestaurantindustry.bl...onsultants.html



OH
MY
FUCKING
GAWD



ah ha

ha
ha ha

hahahahahahahahahaa

oh

my

lord.

[abbe]

Chef Roman à Clef: "I'm Not Abbe"

Yesterday we speculated that Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry, a new site that is fictionalizing restaurant-industry players, was the work of PXThis blogger Abbe Diaz. The pillorying of Sam Mason, Keith McNally, et al sounded pretty much like e-mails from Abbe. But the author insists to us: "Im not Abbe. She's the original, the godmother of restaurant blogs and general awesomeness. I'm not worthy." Hmm, suspiciously high praise.

We can also now tell you that the character of Heloise Friedman isn't Morandi's Jody Williams, as we initially speculated. (Jody is instead depicted in the form of Cory Smith, the new chef who acts like a nervous Nelly when interviewing with George Wentworth, a.k.a. Keith McNally) Rather, Heloise is derived from Jean-Georges Vongerichten's right-hand-woman Lois Friedman. Annotate your margins accordingly and prepare for more.

Sympathy for the Restaurant Industry
http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/08/chef_r...abbe.html#gs-hp

how could i possibly be Sympathy4RI ??

"That motherfucker is standing right behind me, isn't he?"

hahhahahhahahaa i wish i could write shit that good

[mss]

oh, this is so much fun. can't wait for more

[ChefWife]

i'm loving all this nonsense about the new blog-anon on the net. oh who is she? oh i wonder. its so *fun*.

but really, i dont get it?? should i care?
b/c i do.

no sympathy here for the industry-just loathsome love and tears. they pay my bills and got me screaming for more.

DesperateChefsWives
-H-

[abbe]

....sounded pretty much like e-mails from Abbe.

http://nymag.com/daily/food/2007/08/chef_r...abbe.html#gs-hp

have i ever e-mailed them ?? i don't think i have.

eater, yes. gawker, yes. even defamer, yes. but the Grubsters ?? i don't remember that at all. maybe i'm going senile
ha ha ha oh shit maybe i AM S4RI !! ee heee

[abbe]

no sympathy here for the industry-just loathsome love and tears.

sweetie, if you're married to it

you ARE it too, honeypie

[ChefWife]

sweetie, if you're married to it

you ARE it too, honeypie

NOOOOOO. But I'm good.
Denial.

[abbe]

oh, this is so much fun. can't wait for more

i can't BELIEVE that bitch gets more press than i, by maybe-being-me

-THE FUCK ???

[mss]

oh, it's not really important who writes it, the stories are great. i want more!

and gabby abbe, it's obviously an homage you inspire stuff like this all the time

[Dick Johnson]

http://sympathyfortherestaurantindustry.bl...onsultants.html



OH
MY
FUCKING
GAWD



ah ha

ha
ha ha

hahahahahahahahahaa

oh

my

lord.

That was awesome.

Aw, I wanna maybe-be S4RI!

Oh, and then I'd have to maybe-be Abbe, too!

But then, would I have to give up maybe-being the real Richard Johnson?



This is fun!

[Jason Has-Binn]

we are all abbe

none of this is real

i love it

pass the popcorn please

[abbe]

oh, it's not really important who writes it, the stories are great. i want more!

ohhh i'm pretty sure there's more coming

and gabby abbe, it's obviously an homage you inspire stuff like this all the time

aha ha ha haa yah right

too bad it's mostly acerbic derisive malicious shit though

[abbe]

we are all abbe

none of this is real

i really have GOT to learn to keep all of my multiple personalities in check.

some of them talk way too fucking much

[snax]

ohhh i'm pretty sure there's more coming
aha ha ha haa yah right

too bad it's mostly acerbic derisive malicious shit though

aw....come on.....

But the author insists to us: "No, I'm not Abbe. She's the original, the godmother of restaurant blogs and general awesomeness. I'm not worthy."€�

i think gabby is a rock star

This post has been edited by snax: Aug 25 2007, 07:26 AM