@Peter
That chef guy Anthony Bourdain just went to the taco stand outside the Tortilleria on Starr St. (Jeff stop in Bushwick) on his show. If you haven't been you should go it's amazing. The one with the big mural of mary on the factory door.
I used to eat there all the time it was right outside my doorstep. Never thought I'd see it on TV.
ha!
i was home at my parent's house watching their cable this weekend and saw this episode at the same time you did (3am)... i have been to that taco joint, damn good... tho, at this point, there are dozens of amazing taco spots in NYC... he hit up the flushing mall food courts for chinese, which was cool... the bronx and staten island got a little shorted, but PUNK ROCKER bourdain (nice thumb ring, dude) got to kiss David Johanson's ass, so all is well...
bourdain lost me when he started jizzing over Diner... it actually made me angry when the geek he was eating with said Diner's burger was his fav in the city... Diner used to be my only food option w/n 5 blocks and i grew to loathe the place, but the burger is specifically TOTALLY OVERRATED... a very mediocre meatball of a burger served on a (YUCK) brioche... brioche is such a shit option for hamburger buns... and w/ those meatball burgers, it means the first two and last two bites are nothing but bun... LAME! the burger at Corner Bistro destroys the one at Diner... shit, they should have tooken that spindley geek to Donovan's Pub in Woodside, Queens... that's a proper burger (order w/ cheddar and grilled onions)...
anyways, i still like bourdain, but sometimes i think is he is an ass... the whole pretense of "WOW, I AM GOING TO LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND AND MOVE HERE" whenever he is in rural asia really starts to play on my nerves...