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Big Apple BBQ
Posted: 3:54 pm, June 13th, 2009 in Eating in Other Areas of NYC
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haha... isn't the base charge for the buffet $50? Obviously with drinks, tax and tip it ends up being a lot more...
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Ahh, gotcha. I haven't been there in about almost 2 years. My bills tend to be less than 50% food related costs :)
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I will see what I can do Zach and Adam. I will be breaking new ground when this goes down. Obviously, I can't publicize it until after. And I'm not sure I can get 50 bucks of meat out, but rest assured i will do my damndest!
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I would love to be there as well... I've never been to Plataforma, only been to Greenfield and Master Grill, both in Queens (think Master Grill is defunct now? Goats, you been there? lol), and Rodizio in Buenos Aires, for that style of food/service.
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What I wanna know is what's gonna keep Goats from jacking you guys once you leave?
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I know kung fu.
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@ D: Hey now! Best beware of Goats, who often crosses over into the thuglife with his badass G Unit Gansta coat....
I wish that were true. Sadly, I am my own victim of extremely poor fashion/modern rap music sense, mixed with a cheap cheap demenor when it comes to buying winter coats (the coat was 75 bucks at Burlington, and it was REALLY REALLY warm!) I only learned later what G-Unit represented...@ Yvo----Been to the NYC plataformas at least 10-15 times over the years, but never to queens. In fact, I've only eaten in Queens maybe 3 times in my life, and that was 10 yrs ago when we went and had amazing Korean Food before my friends moved back to Cali to take the Bar exam.
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Okay, I can sympathise with the dearth of "real barbecue" in nyc. So an event like the Big Aple BBQ festival sounds like blessing no?
Normally I'd be asking "what idiot would stand on line forever for a small plate of barbecue"?
*raises hand*
"Fortunately" my wife and I planned to meet up with some friends who had a fastpass (hi scott! I owe you 18 bucks!) So I was able to get on the "fastpass" line, and I proceeded to wait 45 minutes on a line that was a city block long so I could get two pulled pork sandwiches... When I got to the end of the line I heard my name called out to me and it was a friend I hadn't seen in like a decade. He was on the regular line and waited 40 minutes...
Okay, I admit that this was probably the best pulled pork (good mix of shreds and chunks of smokey pink pork, not even sauced, kept moist from it's own succulence). I probably won't have pulled pork as good as that ever again. I couldn't enjoy it because of the insanity of the event.
So I'll revise my original question. Who goes to these events and actually enjoys waiting an hour or more for a small plate of food? Personally, I'll stick to proper restaurants. I'll take Dallas BBQ over waiting for that event. We have some ribs in the fridge that we're going to oven bbq for dinner tonight.
Zach, please tell me you had a press pass and didn't wait on the fastpass lines...