HIGH STEAKS
Your friends at Sushi Samba are serving a new Wagyu-washed, Japanese whisky Old Fashioned. And the folks at Smith & Wollensky have an Old Fashioned-rubbed filet mignon finished with a whiskey gastrique. Coincidence? No time to answer. There’s steak to drink.
SHELL OR HIGH WATER
Oyster Bar is now open at the Hard Rock. We’ll take your questions.
You: So it’s an oyster bar?
Us: Pretty much. They have oysters. But they’ll also make you lobster, pan-roasted
mussels and po’ boys.
You: So it’s not an oyster bar?
Us: You lovable scamp.
BELTWAY POLITICS
Here’s what happens at Chubby Cattle. You choose your hot pot broth. Then you grab your accouterments—lamb shoulder, udon noodles, etc—from a conveyor belt, mix them in yummy sauce and dip them in said pot. After that, you eat. And repeat. Until you’re finished and go somewhere else.
ESCAPE CRUSADER
Depending on the escape room scenario you choose at Escapology, you may be a lawman in the wild west, an FBI agent in the cyber crime unit or a brilliant detective aboard the Budapest Express. Once you escape, though, you’ll just be you again. Which is oddly reassuring.
A WORK OF CART
Bazaar Meat’s new dessert cart resembles a giant golden wind-up toy, lights up, and is Bluetooth-enabled to program music. All of which is cool, but none of which should distract you from the fact that it’s primary purpose is to deliver you bonbons and ice cream.
Sam Eichner likes literature, reality television and his twin cats equally. He has consistently been told he needs a shave since he started growing facial hair.
