"You want it your f*ckng way?!"

In today's Sunday NYT, the magazine is featuring their annual Food Issue, a must buy/read for any die-hard food obsessive. Among the articles is a piece by Christine Muhlke on the one-of-a-kind NY restaurant Shopsin's General Store, where owner Kenny Shopsin is almost as likely to throw you out as to throw you down a plate of his macaroni-and-cheese pancakes (there's a recipe attached for this unholy marriage of breakfast and dinner, and if you think I'm not making them ASAP you would be sadly mistaken!), with no extra charge for a side of expletives. But my favorite part of the article is the opening paragraph, where I LOVE this quote:

AS THE LEGENDARY bon vivant Ludwig Bemelmans once noted of restaurateurs: “The most strenuous customer-versus-proprietor battles occur in the smart restaurants of Paris and New York. This kind of restaurant, as a rule, is small. It is benefited by a certain type of guest and injured by another, and the latter must be discouraged from coming. In a man confronted daily with the task of separating the wanted from the unwanted, a degree of arrogance is indispensable.”
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"Um, do you have something, oh, I don't know...a ittle less depressing?"

So very sad! Is this the worst restaurant table in New York? According to the voters at eater.com it is. Check out the other candidates on this blog post. Too funny!