Hotel Chelsea Blog
For those of you who didn’t guess the answer to our quiz question on Wednesday here is another hint. The gentrified and suburbanized Chelsea neighborhood already has an Olive Garden and an Outback Steakhouse. It’s high time we had a Benihana’s as well. And maybe we’ll get a Red Lobster in the El Quixote space. Viva Suburbia!
I’m certain Manny at El Q would have a field day with Marlene’s lawyers if ‘Edamame Elder’ or ‘Spicy Tuna Tamasar’ were on the menu for the Chelsea’s immediate future. Try in another fifty years or so, when their lease runs out.
The Bard Bashers oughta stick to their exploitative ‘Legends Cafe’ concept — remember that? — tho for the moment the steam seems to have gone out of that particularly bold attempt to cheapen the Chelsea’s image.
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This brings me back to the freedom from the Oppression of the Mediocre that I felt when I finally left my hometown suburbia for the urbanified East Coast. When I would return for the holidays or visits or whatever, I felt almost assaulted by the crapola design of these big box chains of pap. They make their moolah on pushing a cozy comfort, so suburbanites never have to go out of their recliner boundaries. God help Chelsea, NYC, and all of us if their mindless mediocrity ever takes over. Give me the rundown, the tattered, and the stained–give me places like the Chelsea Hotel!
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You know that the Outback Steakhouse is about as representative of the real Australia as Marlene Krauss is representative of the Chelsea spirit, I hope?
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Carrie Bedsore how right you are.
Outback is “throw another shrimp on the barby” while Marlene and David are like “toss another tenant on the sidewalk.”
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A Benihana? Really? How boring. That used to be the most interesting stretch of commercial real estate in Manhattan. God forbid it ends up looking like a generic strip mall. I hope El Q’s lease has a clause that precludes this.
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And Benihana is authentic Japanese the way David Elder is an authetic Hotelier. What a sad joke. Hope they don’t get any permits.
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