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TUJAGUE’S New Orleans
Painting of TAJAGUE’S by artist Mary DeSilva
Taujague’s is one of New orleans Great Grand Old Restaurants, is one of the Oldest still operating restaurants in America an is second oldest in New Orleans only to Antoine’s .. Opened before the Civil War in 1856, Tufague’s has been feeding New Orlian’s and visitors (Millions) to The Cresent City ever since. Did you know that the Grasshopper Cocktail was “Invented” here? Know I didn’t think you did. Neither did the people at the Stand-Up Bar at Tujague’s did when I was in there on Lundi Day 2007 and ordered one. Everyone was curious as I drank mine. I told them it was invented here and everyone got one. We had a grand time there that day where I stopped in for a couple Grasshoppers after having an
awesome lunch of a Muffuletta at Central Grocery a few doors down on Decator Street. I then walked up the block to Cafe Du Monde for Beignets and Cafe au Lait before heading over to Tujague’s for the Grasshoppers and merriment at the famed Stand-Up Bar (No Seats) …
Drinking “GRASSHOPPERS” with A Friend I Met at TAJAGUE’S Stand-Up Bar
Cafe Du Monde … New Orleans “Americas Greatest Cafe”
America’s Greatest Cafe? What and where is it? Where? First thoughts might run to the culinary capital of America, New York .. You’d be wrong. Though we have many fine cafes in New York and probably the city with more great cafes than most of America, when it comes to AMerica’s number 1, single best, undisputed champ, America’s Greatest Cafe, one stands alone, with whoever number two is, it’s a distant second, America’s Greatest Cafe is without a doubt Cafe Du Monde in The French Quarter of New Orleans .. Wow, was that a mouthful or what ..
Cafe du Monde is America’s best cafe on two fronts. Number one being that they serve this World’s Best Beignets (French Donuts “No Hole”), and the World’s Best Chicory Coffee “Cafe au Lait” … Second the ambiance and physical of the place is wonderful. Number 3, the customers, the people and amount of people that go there, and that just about everyone who goes there (about 99%) makes at least one stop at Cafe du Monde on their trip .. There are no statistics on it, but I’m pretty sure that more people have had coffee at Cafe du Monde than any other Cafe in the World, including cafes that are older .. Speaking of old as far as cafes or any restaurant or any business goes, Cafe du Monde has been around serving happy customers Cafe Lait and Beignets for more than 150 years .. They have been in continuous operation since 1862 … And there serve thousands of people each and every day 365 days a year, year-after-year … There is no restaurant that comes close in raw numbers … They serve about 35,000 people a week, or 1 Million + 638,000 people a year ..
But, the fact that Cafe Du Monde is thee number 1 place that everyone, whether tourists or locals has to go to … I love Napoleon House, Galatoire’s, and Tujague’s but great as they are, not everyone goes to them. “Everyone goes to Cafe Du Monde.” It’s a meeting place where you get a tasty cup of Cafe au Lait and 3 Beignets for a mere $4.50 … You will see everyone there, and you always have a great time. Cafe Du Monde, one of the World’s greatest and without a doubt AMerica’s Greatest Cafe ..
Beignets and Cafe au Lait
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REMEMBERING AMY “WINEHOUSE”
AMY WINEHOUSE PERFORMS “VALERIE” With Mark Ronson
What a shame. We Lost one of the “Few Great” Musical Artist of the current day .. “God The Music is So Dam Awful These Days” !!! Other the the late great Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys, Ceelo Green and just a “Handful” of other, “The Music These Days Is Total CRAP” !!!! What The Hell Happened to the Music World, Musical Artists, and People Taste? All turned to Crap I guess?
That’s why we have to hang on to the great musicians of days past. people like Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones (still current), Marvin Gaye, and on and on .. Thank God for Records and Recordings and the Great Musical Artists of The 5os, 60s, 70, and even 80s or if we had to depend on current “Shitty Musicians Like The Likes of Today.” Thank Goodness for “Amy” Janis, Jimi, Marvin, all the Great R&B of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Gar Rock, Classic Rock, Rock N Roll and all the Great Music of The Past .. We certainly have next to nothing today, “Nothing But Crap” I see Bands on all the 3 Late Shows on every night that are “Absolutely Horrible” devoid of talent, or any life, melody, and rhythm in their SHITTY MUSIC, “Just a Bunch of Crap.” 90% of The Musical Artist that I see on Letterman, Leno, and Jimmy Fallon’s shows would have been “laughed off the stage” back in the 60’s and 70’s …. They wouldn’t even make it to the stage as bookers would ask them “Are you out of you mind? You’re Terrible! What makes you think you could ever possibly play on the Tonight Show?” OR any other TV Show back then. Back then you had to have talent, their was quite a lot of Talent back then. Now their is such “Shit” and nothing else, that shows like Letterman, The Tonight Show and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon are forced to put on Shit. There’s nothing else. No alternative. Thank God for old R&B, Rock-N-Roll, Pop, and AMerican Standards. We have something to listen to .. Great Things !
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
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AMY WINEHOUSE
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AMY WINEHOUSE
“LOVE is a LOSING GAME”
Listen to this soulful performance by Amy Winehouse, singing Love is a Losing Game at the Brit Awards. She’s pouring her heart out over her low-life husband Blake, who it is widely believed was the person who got her onto hard drugs and a path towards a downward spiral of ill health.
The official coroners report stated that Amy died of Alcohol Toxicity from consuming a too much alcohol and too short a time, in affect poisoning her body and bloodstream. The autopsy confirmed that Winehouse had 350mg of alcohol in her bloodstream causing her death.
Amy had many daemons, so they say, she struggle with Drug Addiction, Alcohol addiction and Bulimia. Sadly Amy didn’t make it. She was unable to overcome her daemons before she died. There have been many Rock Stars who have had huge drug problems and still made it. They abused drugs, but didn’t die and cleaned up their acts in time to prevent dying. Case in point Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, and most famous of all Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Amy and others, such as; Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Jim Morrison of The Doors. Sadly, unlike others who made it, these artists were unable to get clean before their apparent deaths including Amy Winehouse. Amy Winehouse was a great talent. It would have been wonderful if she made it past that critical point that took her bright life.
We remember Amy Winehouse, by listening to her music, and soulful recordings as we pray for her soul, and lament her not making it. God Bless Amy.
Sadly for Amy Winehouse
Love was a Losing Game
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ROCK STARS Who Died at the Age of 27
Jim Morrison
Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Brian Jones
Amy Winehouse
The 27 Club
PULP FICTION
A Masterpiece by Quentin Tarantino
Minetta Tavern
TONY JANIRO With EDDIE MINETTA …
Possibly at Training Camp in New Jersey .. Tony Preparing for With Jake La Motta “The Raging Bull” From The BRONX,
NEW YORK …. Eddie Owner of Famed Greenwich Village Restaurant MINETTA TAVERN on Macdougal Street in The Village, a spot were Prize Fighter, Musicians, and Movie Stars congregated, drinking, eating, socializing and having a grand time, including the likes of Ernest Hemingway, and …
Havana Cuba
Old American Car Driving The Malecon during Hurricane Sandy …
Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food
CELEBRITIES SPOTTED At CARBONE
CARBONE SIGN When It Was Still ROCCO RESTAURANT “Prior To CARBONE Being Superimposed In NEON Over ROCCO ... Photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
Remembering back to My Days at DaSilvano .. I was the Maitre’d and DaSilvano was Thee # 1 Single Hottest Celebrity Spotting Restaurant of All .. No Place could touch it. “And I mean Nobody.” Back then and up to Silvano’s Drop from New York’s Hot Celebrity Spot was back in 2008 when Vanity Fair Magazine Editor In Cheif Graydon Carter opened his restaurant The Waverly Inn with Hotel and Night Club Impresario Eric Goode … The Waverly Inn Instantly Became Thee Celebrity Restaurant to Be Seen and Seen At … Carter Stole Silvano’s Thiunder and Has not been the same since.
When I was Manager / Maitre’d at Da Silvano from 1998 – 2001 Da Silvano was the place for the “Movers And Shakers” in the Movie, Record and Music, Publishing, and Fashion Worlds. Da Silvano saw at it’s tables Movie Stars, Rock Stars, Famous Writers and Everyone Who Was Anyone as they say. Over my years there, I schmoozed with and took care of the likes of regulras; Gwyneth Palthrow, Richard Gere, Paul McCarteny, David Bowie, Calvin Klein, Ethan Hawke, Keith Richards, Nick Tosches, Dominic Dunne, Griffin Dunne, Francesco Clemente, Madonna, and-on-and-on … The list is too long to name everyone … There was a lot of Energy in The Joint, and I for One Just Loved it. As did all the Celebs that packed in to Da Silvano each and every night.
Da Silvano was on Top. But No More. Now it’s places like Minetta Tavern and Carbone, both just two short blocks from the once “capital of New York Celebritydom” These two restaurants have taken over were DaSilvano left off. Wait a minute now. I almost left out BAR PITTI, of which Silvano Marchetto once owned 50% of before the famous feud with ex-partner and fellow Florentine Giovanni Tognozzi .. Bar Pitti is 3 in The Triangle of Celebrity Hot Spots in Greenwich Village, all 3 places just 2 blocks from one another. And Bar Pitti is directly next door to “Arch Enemy” DaSilvano ..
SPOTTED at CARBONE
Beyonce
Jay Z
Sara Jessica Parker
Matthew Broderick
Jake Gyllenhaal
George Stephanopoulos
Jerry Seinfeild
NOT QUITE AS IMPRESSIVE as The CELEBS We Had at Da SIvano One Upon a Time …
But Then Again “Nothing Is As Good as It Used to Be” Especialy Music and Cars “Both AWFUL”
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
RICHARD GERE and GWYNETH PALTHROW Former REGULARS at DaSILVANO RESTORANTE, GREEWNICH VILLAGE .. NEW YORK
Italian-American New Yorkers and Their Food
UNAMI BURGER HITS NEW YORK
The Hugely Successful LA Unami Burger Opens in New York .. Owned and Created by Adam Fleishman
BURGERS $10 – $15, Including; Duck Burger, Truffle Burger, and French Dip Sandwich …
UNAMI BURGER, 432 6th Avenue (near West 10th Street, NY NY) (212) 677-8626
NY TIMES DEMOTES DANIEL 3 STARS
RESTAURANT DANIEL DOWN To 3 STARS as PETE WELLS STEALS STARS
Pete Wells has taken Restaurant Daniel “Down A Notch” and it seems the main reason to be un-democratic service. Restaurant Staff notices Wells and he gets extra pampering while his friends sitting at another table have the same exact meal, excellent service but not pampered as much as Wells which starts the moment when he leaves the restaurant and a staffer offers to get him a cab. Wells loved the food but not being overly coddled, “Picky Picky Picky Peter.”
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