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Written on Restaurant review: Authentic Jewish deli offerings shine at Toojay's :

in response to vblg:

As a native of NYC, and a much decorated veteran of the pastrami wars, I have much to disagree with you about.

First, although a Rachel is OK, no self respecting connoisseur of pastrami eats it with cheese. Rye bread and mustard. Period.

You reference Katz's - have you been to The Carnagie, The Second Ave, or the Stage? I was at Katz's a few weeks ago and the midtown/uptown places are now better.

I guess that since most of the Miami places such as Rascal House and Wolfies are either closed or too far away, Too Jays can make do.

Please, there is no comparison with the above mentioned places. TooJays' pastrami should not be mentioned in the same "garlicky" breath as Katz's.

Thank you. It amazes me that the food reviewers in this paper don't have the palate or the food expertise anywhere close to what is needed to actually review the retaurants they do. Considering this is such a small area and the readers actually take heed to what is written in here, people's reputations and income are in the balance. All helped or hindered by someone who wouldn't know a poached egg from a coddled one.


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Written on Restaurant Critic Review: Lunch at West End Grill always satisfies:

If your wish is for the critics to review only inexpensive restaurants you'll run out of fast food places in about four months and then start over again. You obviously are unaware of the margins in running a restaurant. If you want to present to the guest a quality meal with high level of fresh ingredients instead of the low quality mostly frozen garbage the majority of the places around here serve, it's going to cost. Places like this may not be for you but if you care what you put in your body as fuel, and you want to go to a restaurant, you should pay more for it. If you don't care, it will cost you less, but the doctor bills will be higher. Simple as that.

Written on State bill could mean more Martin County restaurants can sell liquor :

These liquor licenses are what are called 4COP SRX licenses. These licenses are totally different from the 4COP version, which are for bars only that are not required to sell food. In the old law you needed 200 seats, 200 table settings and had to show at least a 51 percentage of food sales. There were also square foot restrictions for the size of the restaurant. This law shrinks the seating and table settings to 150, as well as the size of the footprint of the restaurant. The 51 percent food stays the same. The original law was put in throughout the state for chains and large independent restauranteurs with large buildings so they didn't have to "buy" a liquor license but could acquire one to sell liquor to complement their food. Each county has different requirements. Now that everything is smaller as far as size and and seating, more people thinking about opening a restaurant can make their margins better because they have less seating to worry about and will pay less rent because they will be operating a smaller building. It will also bring in a much more diverse series of restaurants that couldn't sell full liquor before but rather only beer and wine. Which in turn will make Martin Counties restaurant industry much more viable. This has nothing to do with drunk drivers nor the bar industry but rather effects the restaurant industry much more and for the better.

Written on Jensen Beach's Jan's Place moving again, Pineapple Republic Grill taking that spot:

The proprietors have basically taken a beautiful 250 seat restaurant with a full service bar and patio, then pretty much closed it for dinner and bar service at night and turned it into a mom and pop coffee shop. There's a term in real estate called "highest and best use." The people running this establishment certainly haven't heard nor lived by anything that remotely resembles that in their daily business practices. And some people in prior posts have said that the landlord is the problem. What a joke that is.

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