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Love RVR, for the food more than the vodka
Same, although they do make an excellent bloody mary (it’s called something else). The eel salad and the smelt sandwich are favorites of mine.
It is a place would jump on! I didn’t see the planning post for that latest excursion - sorry I missed it.
Eater used to have a great feature ‘Who Goes There?’ You know those places you walk by and wonder “Who actually dines there?”
I miss Brooks of Sheffield desperately.
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After our son’s improv show we walked over to ktown for kfc at turntable lp and karaoke. Thankfully we far too early for karaoke and coincidentally arrived at the tail end of happy hour.
Ordered 20 wings, half spicy, half soy/garlic and an order of handcut fries. Fries were fantastic, the wings good not great as we prefer the drier style found at places like mad for chicken and bon chon.
Very cool room with 1000s of lps, rock posters and old stereo equipment. We probably won’t be back but one could do a lot worse in ktown and happy hour pricing made it a great deal.
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Second trip to Cadence, with the same friend (who keeps kosher, so we always go to vegan places). There are some winners and losers on that menu. We had the fried lasagna last time, which was very good. As was this nice palm cake, over spicy slaw.
You could pass it off as a crab cake to someone who’s not paying close attention.
The mac and cheese was not as successful, not least because it was served lukewarm. The vegan cheese wasn’t bad, but the dish was overall kind of dull, despite its smokiness and jerk seasoning. My friend (who is kind of an asshole, if you must know) told the server- unnecessarily! - that we didn’t like it, and they took it off the check. We also had the biscuits with gravy, which took forEVER to arrive, and by that time I was just carbed out.
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Ha. I am notorious for sending back lukewarm dishes at restaurants. My friends have a stock imitation of me saying “Ice. Cold.” while I hand the dish back.
Ya think? More or less than Krab?
(My grandmother swore I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between jackfruit curry and chicken curry, but I’ve actually eaten chicken, sooooooo 
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Do you actually speak that way to the servers or your friends are giving you a good ribbing?
Less. But it’s crispy and bread-y, and the palm shreds like crabmeat. So a reasonable facsimile of, say, the crab cake you’d get over spaghetti in a diner.
I am reminded of our favorite thai restaurant near our place in florida, one evening we opened the menu to find they’d crossed out the “C” in Crabmeat and hand-written “K” for about ten menu entries 
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First time at Wayla, which vies with Cadence for the worst lighting in a restaurant.
Papaya salad, pretty standard, but solid. Spicy as advertised.
Crab fried rice was excellent, and so crabby that my non-seafood-loving friend couldn’t deal with it. Long beans with tofu and galangal was more pedestrian, as was the vegetable curry, which did have the advantage of a very nice array - brussels sprouts, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, etc.
The fancydrinks were better than expected, by which I mean that of the three I tried, none of them was a sugar bomb. I kind of loved the subterranean space, but a little more light would be welcome for this old half blind lady.
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This was a one and done for us years back, but the crab fried rice I remember was good.
I like the food there, but have only eaten there in good weather, when the garden is open.
I read your account. I wouldn’t rush back, but I also wouldn’t refuse an invitation there. The only Manhattan Thai places that ever really impressed me were Zaab on Second Avenue when it first opened, and Pam Real.
That crab fried rice looks fab.
It was not quite as good as Uncle Boon’s, but almost.
