sam sifton you are a treat!

from review of prime meats in brooklyn:

http://events.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/dining/reviews/26rest.html

"There are really no other downsides to eating at their newest restaurant. The staff is exceptionally well trained and efficient, a crew of handsome men and women dressed as if ready to ride horses back home to Bushwick, where they trap beaver and make their own candles. And a meal in the restaurant proceeds with all the jollity and good manners of something scripted by Laura Ingalls Wilder and scored by the Grateful Dead. It is an extremely pleasant place."

★★

465 Court Street (Luquer Street), Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn; (718) 254-0327, frankspm.com.

ATMOSPHERE F train to Terrapin Station.

haha yea he's been doing so well, i think we were talking abt it on another thread

http://ny.eater.com/uploads/siftymadlibs1.jpg

http://ny.eater.com/archives/2010/05/sam_sifton_mad_libs.php

on one hand I think this guy TRIES TOO HARD sometimes but OTOH it's good to read somebody w/strong voice throwing down in the NYT.

You can see these people standing on Court Street nightly, staring through the plate-glass windows at a dining room packed with brownstone bohemians, third novelists, people with Web sites, with good art at home. They look slightly pained, these visitors from afar wondering about the life choices they made that put them in Chelsea or Park Slope or Montclair, and not down here in Carroll Gardens, this little Italian village off New York Harbor where life is obviously perfect.

what do third novelists look like?

sifton's articles about cooking are v. readable but I haven't tried any recipes yet

on one hand I think this guy TRIES TOO HARD sometimes but OTOH it's good to read somebody w/strong voice throwing down in the NYT.

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this is what everyone said about bruni though, right? and now hes like family

The dining room is pretty enough, dark and cool, with white marble tables and a vaguely Mediterranean feel enhanced by big sprays of flowers. It is crowded nightly, first with dinner parties that seem pulled from rejected “Sex and the City” scripts and then with a late, late, late show of models and people with incredible collections of music and sneakers and phone numbers, accompanied by the people who went to college with them who now work on Wall Street.

But the food is inconsequential.

that's that thing he does.

If you happen to be looking for somewhere to sit beside sleepy-eyed models not eating their oatmeal, or to talk over hamburgers and bourbon about how, if these wave reports are correct, you are definitely going to surf Montauk tomorrow, Peels is your restaurant. Just chain your Dutch bike to a streetlamp outside and stride on in for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

describes restaurant customers as if they were interior decoration/design elements

did you read his last one??? !!!!!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/10/dining/reviews/10rest.html?_r=1&ref=dining

kreative riting klass!

this fucking guy

a cheeseburger deluxe with well-done fries, some mayonnaise on the side and a Coke. To eat this meal while wearing a good suit, with a brimmed hat sitting on the seat beside you, while thinking vaguely about the Georg Friedrich Kersting paintings you saw at the Met’s “Open Window” exhibition just a few minutes before? It is to experience precisely what makes New York the greatest city in the world.

oy vey

luv this guy, one of my current fav writers 4 sure

http://c0848462.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/783c103a9fd5e77a4af0dd381c9092b7c11634c9ae.png

guysss

sifton is the nytimes new national editor!

http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/jill-abramson-announces-new-lineup-5117522

sorry thats just a link to the rumor, but nyt journalists are confirming on twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/brianstelter/statuses/113681055013273600

i wonder if this is because i follow him on twitter

its because he quoted me on twitter is why https://twitter.com/#!/SamSifton/status/107556410891579392

heavy positive karma

btw p upset no one reacted when i posted the screenshot a couple weeks ago

all of a sudden you seem so much more legitimate

mb you could edit the style section

totes

replace the thursday style section w/ twitter links, preteen bloggers

u can be my deputy in charge of millennial ennui and mens hem length reportage

lol joe

why didnt he just retweet u

well because i didnt say it on twitter i said it on... facebook*

*disclaimer: i am not facebook friends w/nyt national editor sam sifton