Wednesday, October 21, 2009
National Skyline / Whatevs Pitchfork Restaurant: The New Tastemakers (Literally)
Posted by Steve Haruch on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:04 AM
So there's a new restaurant opening in Chicago called Pitchfork. I know, right? I know. The jokes practically write themselves--actually, they don't, which is why Idolator sent out the call on Twitter for jokes that combine gustatory wit with music dork knowledge. The result: "9.4 Best New Jokes About Pitchfork." Some of them are pretty good, like No. 3, by @timoni, "The daily specials are a sly nod to the chef's early menus, hearkening back to his pre-1986 seminal street food work." But check out who clocked in at No. 1--Nashville's own Dave Paulson with a Music City-centric entry: "I hear the new Lambchop is good. And it comes with 2 sides!"
We were in the middle of a moderately hectic production day here at the Scene, and I didn't get around to playing. So here's my belated Pitchfork the Restaurant Not the Website entry:
"The dinner special is basically Animal Collective meets The Knife."
Thanks, I'll be here all week!
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the first time i ordered the 'clap your hands and say yeah' it was great but the second time? AWFUL
Why is there 51% water in every recipe?
And if it's just a cheeseburger, why do they call it a "triumph of modern classical composition"?
you're gonna tell me this grilled cheese costs 4000 euros because Kim Gordon made it?
Today's special is a quarter order of dirty French fries (no one buys the full order anymore) served cold with jangly ketchup or grungy mayonnaise on a bed organic GIY--grow it yourself--lettuce that absolutely never loses its pop sensibility and was grown in a pot on Broadway... So you KNOW it's local.
*All our meals are served by rude waiters who work in a different restaurant and hate food.
**The food was made to pay a 100% gratuity to be eaten by you.
Why is everyone coming in, reading the menu, then leaving and denying that they were ever in the restaurant?
Why'd they open this place in Chicago when all the food they recommend you is from Brooklyn?
Anyone remember this?
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/pitchfork_gives_music_6_8
I ordered the jalapeno poppers and one of those big fried onions, but they just made me watch a video of a chimp pissing in its own mouth.
If you thought the bathroom attendants at the Exit/In were awkward you're not gonna dig Wolves in the "Throne" Room...
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