The Eating Adventures of a Checker Cabbie
Today’s Gothamist column is devoted to my friend Mark’s album about apples. The record is called The Apple EP. The band is called Sono Oto. The cd release party/ concert is TONIGHT at 10:30 at Mercury Lounge on Houston Street (only $10 and you get a free cd with that). The music will make you smile. The apples will make you pucker. Bjork will make you angry:
BayGulls. Get it? Bay-Gulls:
Famous Fat Dave gets it and so could you on a five borough eating tour
Today’s Gothamist column is the first time I’ve acknowledged that the Yankees did indeed lose to the Red Sox a couple of years back. I also acknowledge that I’ve been known to drop a couple of bucks on the horses at the OTB:
Visit the official Famous Fat Dave website for a laugh and to book an eating tour
As far back as I remember, I’ve always wanted to eat a lobster:
Jordan’s Lobster Dock Clam Bar
(from goodfellas.martin-scorsese.net)
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One decade ago, a New York City yellow cab driver named Brent Owens filmed, what some consider, a landmark documentary for HBO. Hookers At The Point is about rampant prostitution, drugs, and despair in a rough, isolated Bronx neighborhood called Hunt’s Point.
Two days ago, a New York City yellow cab driver named Dave Freedenberg wrote, what he considers, a landmark column for Gothamist. The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Fratelli’s Pizza Cafe is about delicious broccoli rabe, sausage and rabe Sicilian slices, and rabe heroes in that very same rough, isolated Bronx neighborhood.
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. ” Those fateful words changed my life. They were spoken by Clemenza in The Gothfather. Bruno Kirby played the young Clemenza in The Gotfather Part II. Find out how to get from Bruno Kirby to heirloom tomatoes without going through Kevin Bacon in today’s Gothamist column:
Turn the speakers up and visit www.famousfatdave.com
As if you needed another excuse to go for that heavenly slice of sausage pizza in The Bronx at Louie and Ernie’s. Next door, Teresa’s sells great homemade ices:
www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/08/20/the_hungry_cabb_22.php
Visit www.famousfatdave.com to see what we each between palate cleansers on a five borough eating tour
Ladies Love Cool James. The Hungry Cabbie Loves Ox Tail:
www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/08/17/the_hungry_cabb_21.php
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