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Oslo Zeimantz

what a laugh..... I'm new here... be gentle.

Benjamin Terpstra

I'll have the smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, please.

Rena

Whoa, those prices! 😂

Mickey Rock

“When you order for me, you’re really ordering for yourself, dude.”

Matthew D Specktor

In my mind I'm having the cornmeal cakes with chicken and clams (wtf?), but in reality it was probably the scallops or the swordfish.

David Schur

what a shitty menu. is that real? there's nothing I'd order there

Fan

Wow. How did you get the menu?!

Todd Longwell

That article find is very significant, because it reveals Ellis' game in "The Shards." Almost every detail outside of the conversation and the look of the individual employees comes from that article, from the food they order to the guests at the restaurant. So he's not working from his touted excellent memory of that day. He's doing research and passing it off as memory. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. It's what writers do. And he's tipping his hand as an unreliable narrator, repeatedly telling us that his friends are always getting on his case for embellishing his stories. "The Shards" is a campfire story Bret is telling us. But I'm like a 7-year-old who just stopped believing in Santa Claus who knows he'd enjoy Christmas more if the lie were real.

Dean Lowenstein

I see they've omitted the pork loin with lime Jell-O.

Mark DeCaro

$16 in 1981, damn, that’s steep!!

Keith campbell

Valium sorbet as a palate cleanser not shown.

Emil Ahmad

Todd..you have it spot on. Sharp work chief. But this shift is seductive, draws you in, makes one embrace the literary inconsistencies rather than questioning things... it is convenient to accept it, believe it. It all washes over you. As Bret Ellis used to say, 'We only slide down the surface of things.'

Rebecca Luxton

Tag yourselves — I’m the $5 mixed greens 🔥