Comments on: Eat Me – Shameless Family Promotion

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:59:56 +0000

Becky, that’s really a neat coincidence. Things like this are what make life fun.

Now I’m sorry I never went to Shopsin’s. I lived in NJ till 1979; now I’m at the left edge of the country, right at the Pacific…

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:58:11 +0000

Oh, my. Not only have I eaten at Shopsin’s many times over the years when I’ve gone back to NYC, but I have seen you there years ago, as a kid, studying! Little did I know that THAT Charlie and THIS Charlie are one and the same. Two great tastes taste great together!

Fabulous, and I shall buy a book post haste, though I don’t know if I could replicate my fave soups half as well.

– BEcky

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:06:46 +0000

Awesome menu! I don’t know what a lot of the things on there are but I’d love to try some of them.

I’m hungry now.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:28:27 +0000

Thanks for warning me about the allergy stuff, Rick. (sigh)

By: MooPig

MooPig — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:48:33 +0000

That’s Eat Up.

By: mc

mc — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:04:36 +0000

The name “white trash chicken hash” involves more of an insult (or racial epithet) than you might realize. Please change it.

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:43:33 +0000

That menu is pretty darn scary! And I’m kinda scared by the thought of mac & cheese pancakes… But the Gallant sandwich sounds good.

It says something about the restaurant, though, that it doesn’t need the most well designed menu to keep people coming back.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:35:48 +0000

I’ve seen “I like killing flies” and loved it. Your Dad is a national treasure.

By: Jake H

Jake H — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:23:36 +0000

Yes…I think data implosion is immanent on your dad’s menu, but it does sort of match the delightfully hodgepodge nature of the restaurant. Oh, how I’d love to dine there some day!

Also, your sister’s splendid book design more than makes up for the menu.

By: JM

JM — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:23:02 +0000

I like the menu design but, even I searched the menu’s offered drinks, I can’t find the Guarana Antarctica (my favorite drink, since I taste it when I was visiting Brazil first time) whose ‘can’ appears next to the Big Johns sandwiches in the menu… lol.. i assume your dad just find the Guarana’s can weird enough to be included in the menu

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:58:10 +0000

I love the menu, despite the fact that your dad should definitely be hauled away by the design police.

But descriptors like “southernish,” “little fried things,” and the pun of “Thai Cobb” vs. “Ty Cobb” are wonderful. And fourteen ways to order a side of grits? In New York, no less!

Unable to accommodate severe food allergies? Heck, with all those items, folks with allergies shouldn’t even get within 100 feet!

One thing missing: “Slow readers risk being ridiculed and banished.”

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:57:43 +0000

Can I order a book and send it to you to have it autographed? My partner is a serious cookbook collector and lover of iconic restaurants and would flip out. Email me if you get the chance! Thanks!

By: fisheatingbagel

fisheatingbagel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:37:07 +0000

I’ve looked at the menu before, and it makes me really sad I don’t live in New York; I would love to visit the restaurant sometime.
How is your move to NY going?