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12/23/09
Lacking Resolve
Introducing Your Anti-Resolutions
Soon it'll be a new year, but what hasn't changed is the fact that you live in a city of excess. A city of temptations. A city of two-gallon cocktails. Here are a few suggestions to help you kick off your season of indulgence, before the nagging desire for improvement creeps in. You must resist it…
Buy the Farm
The Junior Breakfast Plate at Shopsin's
This "junior" breakfast plate puts barbeque pork, mac 'n' cheese, eggs and toast on a plate. Together. It's
an unprecedentedly decadent pile of deliciousness, not tethered to the normal rules of food logic, and in
blatant defiance of at least four international laws (by our count).
- 411:
- Shopsin's General Store, 120 Essex St, 212-924-5160
Solitary Confinement
Mehanata's Vodka Room
Unless the house you grew up in had a freezing glass-walled icebox where your parents sent you to do shots,
nothing can prepare you for Mehanata's vodka room. They'll drape you with Russian military coats and furry
hats, so you'll feel authentic and tipsy. Which is much better than feeling just tipsy.
- 411:
- Mehanata Bulgarian Bar, 113 Ludlow St, 212-625-0981
Sticky Ribs
Thai-Spiced Chocolate Baby Back Ribs
Picture Simon without Garfunkel. Cher without Sonny. You can't do it. Okay, you can. Those were bad
examples. Likewise, you can picture baby back ribs without chocolate. But you no longer have to, thanks to
the experimental wizards at Kittichai. We only pray this combination will not be revealed as dangerous. For
it cannot be undone.
- 411:
- Kittichai, 60 Thompson St, 212-219-2000
Curtain Call
The Confession Booth at Coco de Mer
When you think of the land of forbidden pleasures, England doesn't exactly spring to mind. But this
tastefully risqué British-themed sex shop, with its confession booth-style dressing rooms where
customers can email steamy photos, changed that for all time. Designed for ogling, it gives you your first
glimpse of the impending romp. Like a really, really sexy version of "Print Preview."
- 411:
- Coco de Mer, 236 Elizabeth St (btwn E. Houston and Prince), 212-966-9069
Tanked
The Dunk Tank at Carnival
Some ideas so blatantly fly in the face of common sense and accumulated wisdom that we just have to raise
our glass. Introducing Carnival's two-gallon, aquarium-like "dunk tank," filled with vodka, rum, gin and
fruit juice. Perfect for the drowning of industrial-size sorrows, or for sharing. Because let's face it, you
tend to start feeling it after one gallon.
- 411:
- Carnival, 110 University Pl (btwn 12th and 13th St), 212-255-8188
Rice-Capades
White Truffle Fried Rice at Bar Masa
There are plenty of ways to drop serious money on dinner in New York, but there's something particularly
unnecessary about hitting three figures for a bowl of rice. Of course, Bar Masa also throws in some wild
mushrooms and sautéed black truffles, before topping it with white truffle shavings (the unquestioned
king of all shavings).
- 411:
- Bar Masa, 10 Columbus Circle, Time Warner Center, 4th Floor, 212-823-9800
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