god closes door/opens window
Zen Palate in Union Square is closing today. NM-L and I once had a conversation about how we both thought it was the most overrated restaurant in New York City. But still, something about its closing is weird to me, and maybe even a little sad? Is this because I had dinner there once with my dad? Because I (barely) have more kindness in my heart toward vegetarians? Am I becoming sentimental? Ugghh [dread rattle].
Anyway, other roomie LT and I also got on the subject of restaurants that have closed in W’burg since we’ve lived nearby — Bean, Oznot’s, the L Cafe, Union Picnic, Sparky’s, the Read, Taco Bite — and that, too, was a little sad in its way, even though all of those places were a little wonky in one way or another, and also when I applied for a job at L Cafe — the first job I applied for when I moved to New York — the manager quizzed me on art history and I felt like hating him was mandatory.
