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This place is more confused
than Jamie Lee Curtis' first gynecologist. Is it a restaurant or a
bar? Is it hip, or is it a cast-off of a bygone era of kitschy Jetson-like
nostalgia? Okay the Jetsons isn't really a good benchmark;
more like Japanese Hello Kitty, Target pastiche. What the hell do
I know about interior design, anyway? It's less the decor than the
set up of the space. It's basically an open space with a few tables
stuffed in the back on a platform. When I first walked in with our
group of about seven, I honestly had no idea where we were going to
sit. And then I realized tat there was no air conditioning and I decided
the best place might be in a movie theater somewhere. We were there
relatively early, and NYU was out for the summer, so the patronage
was pretty weak. Speaking of weak, let me tell you to stay the hell
away from Brahma
beer. It tasted something like I imagine a melted penny in rusty-piped
Mexican tap water would. The small plates of were, as they usually
are with tapas-like grub, hit or miss--and not terribly varied or
abundant. People seemed to like their funky cocktails, which is apparently
one of Askew's draws, and I eventually ordered something that didn't
burn my esophagus. I can't imagine coming here as a bar, and honestly
can't see it making it as a restaurant, so your guess is as good as
mine... [MF]
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