What Exactly Does BLT Stand For?
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- May
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Why, I thought it stood for bacon, lettuce and tomato. Well, excuuuuuuse me!
In White Plains, which was once an aluminum-plated city of dollar stores, BLT means Bistro Laurent Tourondel, a ritzy, 102-seat, steak restaurant which will open in the fall at—gee, where else—the Ritz-Carlton, Westchester hotel. The bistro will take up to floors of the looming high-rise and will be called the “Winter Garden,” according to an announcement made by developer Lou Cappelli.
The baby of restaurateur and chef Laurent Tourondel, the BLT is oh so French in finesse and culinary training, but other than that, it’s red-blooded American. Hey waiter, does that come with Freedom Fries?
The first BLT was opened in 2004 in Manhattan, and then a couple more were opened in Washington, D,C. and San Juan Puerto Rico.
Cappelli’s press statement said that another restaurant will be put on 42nd floor of the 44-story Tower I…An announcement about that joint is forthcoming. They should call it “Windows On The Burbs.”
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Because my wife is a world-class chef, I don’t often require glitzy nites out, to dine really well. (I offered to send her thru the Culinary Institute & she told me: “they have nothing to teach me”)
We are doing a bit better than just OK right now, but I look around and begin thinking about the French revolution, when I see “White Plains Syndrome” in full flower. Some people have families where two or three or more breadwinners each work 2 1/2 jobs, on , off, and in between the books.
The gap is widening. Attitudes are hardening. The Glitz, the Ritz & the Fitz are showing off par excellence, and roundly disgusting the other 3/4 of the populace. (yes, they exist, just outside the gates of Versailles…er… White Plains).
I know, I know, you don’t give a damn, your bread’s buttered on another side complete, I understand. That doesn’t change the garish inappropriateness of the entire USA “Growing Up Gotti”.
And maybe it ought to be called “Windows on the Homeless Shelter” You think?
Big, I didn’t know you cared…How’s this for a new rule for alll high-rise condo towers: Two floors must be set aside for affordable housing.
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very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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