Dining Descriptor Gifts

"We add an eighteen percent gratuity for parties of six or more."

'I sent out for everything.'

"Your food didn't melt, young man... this is the soup course."

Come dine with me!

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

"M'lady, we’ve reached peak Brooklyn."

Grace For Flies

Sloaney Pony.

"The menu just says fried fish, but may I give you a more compelling, surprisingly lyrical description?"

LAY ZEE FUK

"Stephen and I are today's special."

"I love this place—its food, its ambience, and its political goals."

"Waitress, have you smoked salmon..?"

'You wanna play another round?' 'Sure....tender, another round!'

"Just bring me something that's going to look good on social media."

Life is for the birds.

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

"Behold! As I transform this family size frozen lasagna into a meal for one."

"And the cheese in your omelette? Cheddar, Brie, aged Gouda, Morbier, Torta del Casar, Double Gloucester, Époisses, Shropshire blue, or American?"

"And I'll also take my steak raw thank you."

"I know you didn't order the snails, sir. They're complimentary with the salad."

'I'll have the crab cake, and he'll have the crabby cake.'

"Cheers! Well, this is exciting. I've never had a dinner date with a duck before." "Relax, honey. I'm just here for the bread."

Cutaway view of Ocean liner.

"You do like octopus?"

"Even the waiters here are organic."

Diner.

T"ruly, Susan, I envy no man."

"Vintage? What would you like it to be?"

'A cheeky red?'

"And which regional cuisine would you be interested in this evening—Northwester, Southwestern, Southeastern, or Northeastern?"

"The chef is going to need more than just your ‘compliments’ tonight … he’s in one of his moods."

The wonderful world of cheese.

"You'll love this. It's swarthy yet munificent, didactic and gregarious with hints of dogma."

"This place is one of New York's best-kept secrets."