Last night was our last Wednesday night off of the year at Yesodei HaTorah so to celebrate the bunch of us decided to all go out to eat together. Avishai had a coupon for %10 off at this french restaurant called La Guta that none of us had ever been to before so we decided to check it out, after all the menu on the web said entrees were only 60 shekel. We get there and walk in and I take one look at the place and I say there is no way that entrees are only 60 shekel. The place had all sorts of nice ambiance and when we asked them to bring us regular water they brought us bottled water! Well apparently they mistranslated entree. What they really meant to say was appetizers! Appetizers were 60 shekel! So after about half the group left in search of cheaper eats we settled down to figure out what to get. I ordered an entrecote (rib) steak in garlic, honey, and mustard seed sauce. It was incredible. Quite possibly the best piece of meat I have ever had in my life. It literally melted in your mouth. And it came with a shot glass of root vegetable soup and some rolls with this olive spread which were both also amazing. And it only ran me 72 shek in the end (80 shek-%10). The same steak would have definitely run at least double in the US even in a treif restaurant. So in the end I guess I got my monies worth.
Side Rants
-I've started to compile a list of T.V. shows I need to look up next time I'm at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. They have a library of every T.V. show ever made! any suggestions? so far I've thought of the pilot episode of "Sesame Street" and "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". You know weird stuff that you'll probably never see anywhere.
-Look at the spine of a Jastrow dictionary. What makes no sense about it? It says A-Z! last I checked Aramaic is listed alef to tof.
-Dani's summer job watch: still nothing.
-I'm coming home in a little more then a week. If you need anything from the holy land let me know.
-I never mentioned this before but our yeshiva has two cats Squishy and Bobo who roam the campus. before pesach squishy gave birth to four kittens and we hadn't really seen them since and assumed they died. Well today two of them surfaced and they are the most adoorable things ever. One is orange the other is gray. (tonny you have to take good care of the four of them!)
Thursday, June 09, 2005
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8 comments:
dani, dont worry about that cats, i got them covered.
Last Shabbos, I had dinner with some friends who shop at the Kosher butcher in Newton (Shafran's?).
Holy cow, that was fantastic meat. The place is incredibly clean, and the owner will gladly give you a tour of the premises. Apparently, he doesn't have anything pre-cut, just huge sides of beef, and when you make an order, he goes in back and cuts it for you right then and there.
Also, incredibly clean.
What do I want from Israel? Hm... How about a kitten? :-)
bring me bakc somehitng. hey tonny youll finally have your own ________
Forget the Sesame Street and Carmen Sandiego crap. This past season has had some surprisingly good new shows. (Lost, Veronica Mars, Medium, just to name a few). You'd be better off getting DVD of them and not live so much in the past
ari, those are my kittens!
ed, you are a sick sick dude....
First off, what kind of Yeshiva bum eats at a fancy French restaurant? Last I checked yeshiva guys are into meat and potatoes not hoytee toytee food. What else do you expect from a guy who is going to Brandeis for college (wait a minute...).
Secondly, ari b isn’t shafran's the shady meat places that may not be completely kosher? No wonder it was so clean.
lastly, dani did you ever think that the 2 missing kittens might have part of you delicious French cuisine? Nothing like veal kitten :-P
Hyim:
My bad, not Shafran's, Gordon and Alperin's.
Kitty veal? ew.
i wanna coem to the tv mueseum
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