yah so. this new joint is opening soon

i have refrained from saying anything about it all simply because i didn't want to pollute my bandwidth with this nonsense. cuz i can't stand this Dorkass. never liked him. never will.

i'm not into schadenfreude. i'm REALLY not into wishing ill on others.

but now i hear this Dorkass is going around telling peoples he is going to "steal customers" and "bury" mutherfukkers. as in: he's such hot shit, he's going to "shut" other places "down." (mhmmp. even though he has ONE place on his resumé and everybody knows that company's a joke.)



whatever. douchebag
the only reason i am mentioning CafeDorkass now is: when all his bad karma comes knocking (funny... Opening is just around the corner and i aint heard any hype ANYWHERES about his sorry ass yet. not even Eater gives a shit ? that's pretty sad) i just want to be the one to say: YAH. I KNEW IT ALL ALONG.

go ahead-- wager some guesses. PLEASE.

hm.........................newjack???????????????? many have failed...........................even with years of experience................................

i must admit i am curious to see how it all develops

it's a rather nice space actually. decent location. can't remember who the chef is but i vaguely recall something about a semi impressive stint at one joint somewheres (as a sous).

it seems no PR so far.

if Dorkass is acting as managing partner or GM-- well. that will be really interesting

if the place doesn't cut it, no big shocker there.

if it DOES make it, ohmylord the universe is fucked.




at least it's a great Restaurant101 case study

indeed..................................

B.R. Guest?

If I figure out the riddle, do I get a prize?

You're not talking about this guy, are you?

Good one. I also thought of Lebenthal's Pop Empire.

Have you been to Forum (the former Pop on 4th Ave.)? Oh, God...

Is Forum part of the Pop Empire? What is going on there? menu etc?

Bobo? So, everyone who calls information trying to get reservations or directions to Babbo, is going to reach Bobo instead? That's brilliant.

Well, I heard they were serving Pop burgers, so I went to check it out. But, as soon as I got there, I wanted to leave right away.

I can't even describe it; you probably have to see/experience it yourself.

I thought the name Carlos Suarez sounds familiar!

oh brother

isn't it great how i ask for GUESSES and eater.com goes ahead and prints their assumption as though it's fact, without so much as bothering to try and confirm with me exactly to whom i am referring ?


okay so. let's say (hypothetically of course) this carlos-suarez IS the owner/operator of "CafeDorkass"--

if he goes around saying he will "steal customers" from his neighbors and "shut" places "down" and "bury" mutherfukkers...

well let's see now

this Bobo is located "four blocks north" from Centro, according to Eater, yes ?

why, that must mean it's located TWO blocks from theWaverlyInn and ONE AND ONE-HALF blocks from Morandi

and yet
Eater brings up Centro of all places.

hmmmmm

perhaps Eater should amend their link title to something FAR MORE APPROPRIATE like:

"Carlos Suarez vs. Graydon Carter, Keith McNally, and Sasha Muniak"
which would make much more sense. seeing as hypothetically, carlos-suarez would have been the one who started all this, yes ? and abbe-diaz never once mentioned the name carlos-suarez OR Bobo. so how did my name get involved in this exactly ?







oh but then again-- i guess none of those mutherfukkers are NEARLY as interesting as moi. hence all the "attention."

genius.

: I know who Carlos Saurez is!!!!! He has a restaurant!?!?! This should be ineresting!!!!

Diaz vs. Suarez, huh? Sounds pretty good. Too bad it's already a TKO.

LOL.

That is real case study in stupidity !! Love it...

I guess he didn't like the other choices they had: Casa Momo or Del Pissto.

LOL.

"So, if it's a place that Eater has been sweating for months and you don't like it, Eater will ban you. But if it's Centro Vinoteca or Sam Talbot in a tank top, you can hate all you want? I am confused about the policy.
By mmwhat? at September 17, 2007 5:48 PM"
http://eater.com/archives/2007/09/banned_o...h_12.php#505592

Oy, after talking to a friend of mine about it, now I know who he is.

So, basically, his place might be a big success, because he's just as obnoxious and inexperienced as Graydon Carter, an even bigger ass than Keith McNally, and his Daddy has as much money as Sasha Muniak?

LOL.

But, the McNally brothers had no competition in the 80's and rent was cheaper, Carter draws movie stars (Period.) and apparently, the staff members really like working for Muniak.

AHEM hem hmm mm ahem hem hm mm mmh

that muhfuh has waaaaay more going for him than just THAT thank you very much.

Oh yeah, and he's got that Iron Chef chick cooking for him, too.

plus they will have all babbo's customers that called 411 and got lost..................................

............... And then they'll build their next restaurant - Casa Momo.

LOL.

I've worked with the Chef, Nicolas Cantrel. I don't know about this Carlos person (but if he worked for Hanson..well....whatever), but Nicolas was always pretty solid and very kind to me (one of the few Chefs in my experience to be cool, anyway.) He's talented and knows how to run a kitchen.........

run far run fast?

Huh?

Ok, but THIS quote from Andrea Strong about Carlos just about made me fall over:

"Well, he's got a good story. Carlos went to Wharton, did the MBA thing, got into finance and then changed careers and pursued a passion for the restaurant business. He worked for Steve Hanson in various capacities to get some training and build the skills he'd need to one day open have his own place. "

Work for Hanson to get some training and build skills? The only thing you get from Hanson is either a bad drinking problem or the promise of a lifetime prescription of Zoloft.

http://thestrongbuzz.com/index.php

LOL.

Well, she did say he'd have a good story. She didn't say he'd have a good restaurant.

As in, "If I had to work for/with that guy, I'd....", I think he means.

LOL.

Bobo, slated to open today in the West Village, is Carlos Suarez's long-time-coming dream of opening a European-style neighborhood place with a bit of polish, not roughness, around the edges. The kitchen work, thus far, is by chef Nicolas Cantrel, but for the early moving eaters the real attraction is a design by Caroline Grant and Dolores Suarez (relation; cousins), who design residences, mostly, but have really come to play here. Details are smart (check out the coasters) and all of the rooms -- there is a bar with tables and a rear cafe downstairs; upstairs is the proper dining room, another bar and a large rear patio -- feel authentically and uniquely clubby, not derivative of, say, the Waverly Inn. Time will tell how much lasting power Bobo has, but it certainly looks the part at the outset. What we have here, above, is downstairs barroom; below, the main dining room.
http://eater.com/archives/2007/09/eater_inside_bo_4.php

eehheeheeheeee hahhahahahaa

hey did i ever mentioned i worked for Hanson once ? for like 6 hours. at Isabella's

i trained one full day and they all fell in love with me no joke they called me three times over the next two days. cuz i turned the positon down and never went back after that first day training of course.

i was lucky i got Hanson101 right away (cuz he was at Isabella's full time back then, this was waaaay before all the BRGuests started popping up like mushrooms).

wooooo child i can tell you first hand that man is a FUCKING FREAK.

I remember you talked about it in the book!!!

I know way more about SH than I want to going back to 1981.
And if he is the mentor of this Carlos Suarez dude, I agree RUN FAST

1981?? Holy Christ, that must have been back before he got those veneers!

if by 'good' she means 'cliche'

Hahahaha, oh this is too good. Please you're killing me with this, hahaha "... did the MBA thing...and than changed careers...pursued a passion" Hahahaha I love that he learned to "build skills" with BR Guest. OMG, what a sick, sick business we are in...

That's why I think it's so funny that anyone would call it a 'good story'. 'Old, lame, tired, boring' story is more like it.

then we should start eating in furniture stores and not restaurants................................................

resyfeed
bobo -- 212 488 2626 -- 1 ring, tonight?, [audible scoff], i’m afraid we’re fully committed and no we don’t take walk ins.
http://resy.eater.com/

ee heeee

that's funny.

I wouldn't knock the audible scoff if I were you. Even though this guy acts like a douche, you have to admit, the audible-scoff-as-PR-tool has worked wonders for alot of places in this town. There's no shortage of gluttons for punishment around here.

In the 80's, maybe.

As far as I can tell, the 'audible-scoff-as-PR-tool' hasn't been working that well, lately.

Not even for The Waverly Inn.

Yeah, speaking of 'Cafe Dorkass', what's Waverly Inn like these days? I heard it's been slow, and they lost a Manager to Centro.

Wow, they really do think they're Babbo!

A friend of mine had dinner at Bobo last week and she siad she thought the space is nice but the food was awful.

oh ! that reminds me

somebody told me kinda the exact same thing, the space is nice but the food was "inedible." and she's a member here so i had asked: "and will we be seeing this tomorrow on the forum?"

and she'd replied: "i think we pretty much have to."
this was like sometime last week so evidently the bitch LIED. damn her !

oh well anyways. she said she saw ben-leventhal there too, apparently he was "on a date."
come to think of it, funny we haven't heard a single peep on Eater about ben-leventhal's Bobo dining experience. so i guess we can assume his rating would fall somewheres between "epic shitshow" and uhhh "the bestest restaurant in the whole wide world!"

bully for Bobo.