Beyond Flavortown - Mefites review Guy's American Kitchen & Bar

December 10, 2012 1:57 PM

Beyond Flavortown - Mefites review Guy's American Kitchen & Bar
Beyond Flavortown - When the users of Metafilter found their website bombarded with negative reviews of the new Times Square eatery, they decided to shuffle on over and see for themselves what the fuss was about. We recorded their reactions.

Role: Editor/Idea Haver/Tomfoolery Instigator

posted by The Whelk (19 comments total)

co. of mintcake!:

Behind the Scenes, pt. 1

Behind the Scenes, pt. 2
posted by griphus at 2:13 PM on December 10, 2012

I enjoyed this very much. Something about hearing MeFites talk makes me really happy.
posted by jessamyn at 4:00 PM on December 10, 2012 [4 favorites]

By no means was I the most interesting person there. Kind of the opposite actually.

I did get to do the "2001 monkey" pose though
posted by Rory Marinich at 8:14 PM on December 10, 2012 [1 favorite]

You made a very good monkey Rory.
posted by The Whelk at 9:30 PM on December 10, 2012 [3 favorites]

Lovely.
posted by cthuljew at 10:45 PM on December 10, 2012

AUGH RORY MARINICH SAID 'BURST IN THE MOUTH'
posted by carsonb at 11:43 PM on December 10, 2012

Well, the hell with you people!!! And the hell with the non-cool midwest I live in... I think the Ann Arbor mefite cohort should get their asses to Zingerman's and make your "Guy whatever whatever" meetup look lame....

yeah, that's what we should do, damn it...

And, who knew you people could actually talk, or left your keyboards and went out into the world for that matter.... nerds....

no, I'm not jealous, not a bit...well, maybe a little...
posted by HuronBob at 3:37 AM on December 11, 2012 [4 favorites]

This was like the best wedding video ever.

Almost a month ago, I wrote this:

The only bad thing about the NY Times review is that I love the way it is written so much, I want to eat at the restaurant so that I can also enjoy it if it is accurate. I have the same reaction to Roger Ebert's 0-star reviews.

If this doesn't happen, I would like to request the NY Mefites have a meetup there and live tweet it.


And this turned out better than I could have ever imagined. (And I never have to eat there.)

Thanks.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 8:39 AM on December 11, 2012 [1 favorite]

Ironic Dining Mecca
posted by melt away at 1:23 PM on December 11, 2012

Whhhyyyy did I turn off my meet-up notifications?!
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 4:06 PM on December 11, 2012

The tap water was honestly really good.
posted by davidjmcgee at 10:51 PM on December 11, 2012 [3 favorites]

[by the way, pretty much everybody there offered to either buy me stuff or let me share stuff; it was not for lack of MeFite generosity that I played it spare. thanks everyone for being awesome. you are all cool.]
posted by davidjmcgee at 10:52 PM on December 11, 2012

This was like the best wedding video ever.

We need to start vlogging the Chicago meetups.
posted by phunniemee at 10:44 AM on December 13, 2012 [3 favorites]

you need someone crazy enough to devote an entire day to editing it at the expense of human interaction or hygiene
posted by The Whelk at 10:50 AM on December 13, 2012 [3 favorites]

We need to make this happen. Our awesomeness needs to be inflicted upon the world.
posted by phunniemee at 11:08 AM on December 13, 2012

you need someone crazy enough to devote an entire day to editing it at the expense of human interaction or hygiene

But I already know you, Whelk.
posted by shakespeherian at 9:17 AM on December 15, 2012 [2 favorites]

God I'm so sorry I missed this one.
posted by Ragged Richard at 10:05 AM on December 15, 2012

Was this shot on iPhone/smartphone? Nice work!
posted by gen at 12:35 AM on January 4, 2013

All of this was shot on griphus, rory, and I's smartphones. The realization that I can shoot Internet decent video on my phone ( MY PHONE ) has opened up a new world of stupid media possibilities.
posted by The Whelk at 2:04 AM on January 4, 2013 [3 favorites]