Bar food: the new three-course meal
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran a story called "Bar Wars" about fancy New York restaurants turning their upscale dining rooms into lounges and glorified bars.
"While consumer spending at restaurants is falling precipitously, drink orders, particularly for cheaper drinks like beer, are barely dropping off," the story says. "For restaurants, it's now proving more cost-effective to serve lower-priced dishes that diners can munch on as they buy drinks." ...
I can't think of any examples of that in Baltimore yet; but, of course, we don't have many restaurants like Thomas Keller's Per Se in Manhattan, which until recently served only a nine-course prix fixe menu for $275 at dinnertime.
(Algerina Perna/Sun photographer)
Comments
There is the TV dinner at Henninger's Tavern. Includes a cupcake for desert.
Posted by: Joel | April 4, 2009 9:01 AM
How about a seven-course meal: A hot dog and a six-pack.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | April 4, 2009 9:11 AM
For all bacon lovers, and especially Bacon Girl, this is a link to Squeeze Bacon, a product from Sweden.
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | April 4, 2009 1:28 PM
cosmo girls: you're 3 days late with that link....(try buying it).
that said, great vid on that link.
while we don't have perse in bmore, we do have timothy dean turning theirs into a lounge from a restaurant.
Posted by: attgig | April 5, 2009 12:02 AM
If not Squeeze Bacon, how about Baconhenge.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | April 5, 2009 3:48 PM