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Hipsters and being heavy into food seem mutually exclusive. Shouldn't hipsters be emaciated? Plus, an appreciation of the finer points of gastronomy usually conjures a constellation of bourgeois values inherently at odds with the reduced-class-consciousness of your average boho. Of course, if they wanted, they could apportion a small amount of their allowance on eating out as opposed to buying $250 Acne Jeans. Thankfully, due to a recent surge of affordable and hip options, that choice never needs must be made.
Whisk and Ladle, as chronicled in these pages, is a $40 underground dinner club in Williamsburg with good food and little to no epicene pretension and San Francisco's Chowdown combines a disc jockey, a club popular with the kiddos and one of New York's top chefs.
The Chowdown is monthly part radio show, part dinner party. The inaugural New York event on April 10th, features Joey Campanaro, the chef behind The Little Owl, taking over the perennially hip club APT. Music is courtesy of Brennan Green and tix, available through the website, are $40. Attend if you dare.
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Can we remember for a second that central to the hipster ethos is free shit a la, "Sheena, that boy last night totally invited me to some dinner party at APT .... what... I don't know he's like pr or something... well he dressed pr... at his place? No girl, I dragged myself onto the L at 7am.... what? the thing at APT? I know, crazy right... look, no I don't remember his name, but we're totally getting in. Shit, I got class now - later bitch"
That was supposed to be hipster speak?
Well, now we know where all the chubbos in the Last Night's Party pics are getting their grub. BTW, what graphic design genius came up with that logo? Get these hiptards a rendering of a snail on a Vespa ASAP.
@brief: I mean, I guess. Other than rampant name dropping I think it's a reasonable. Remember, you can't slur your words in type.
i have been in the mouths of several hipsters and that is not what it's like.
little to no epicene pretension
It is good to hear that this dinner club does not feign androgyny. So what is our Josh trying to tell us: a) Whisk and Ladle's indeterminate gender is genuine, no pose, or b) the place is so overwhelmingly masculine (or feminine?) that one could never mistake it for a restaurant of the other sex?
Don't get La Cieca wrong: she thinks Josh is just about the cutest thing she's seen since this guy. But maybe he could stop trying quite so hard with the big words?
@La Cieca: ah shit, that's why i got a 790 my SAT verbal!
that's not what hipsters sound like. "no girl"? no, girl.
That's like "Romy and Michelle" hipsters.
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