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...furniture with plants and Chinese paintings. Also, lots of hand-painted signs. Krinkle-cut fries on a styrofoam plate and a small ginger ale. Apparently, this place is extremely popular with motorcycle cops and women on their coffee breaks. Also, there was a scruffy-looking guy eating a big roast beef sandwich which looked even better than the turkey sandwich that woman had in Leo's Place. The fries weren't bad. It lacks that special sort of character which helped launch Elsie's and the late Tommy's Lunch into fame. Namely, people who are mean to you when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobody Knows the Tostadas He's Seen Lunch | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...turkey drumsticks? There isn't much you can do with turkey drumsticks, except maybe marinate and roast them, which it appears the chefs at HDS tried to do yesterday. I'm not sure what the marinade consisted of, exactly, but I'm not sure it matters, either. Somewhere along the line, it appears the ill-fated legs were popped into a vacuum pump for freeze-drying...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: These Wings Don't Fly | 9/23/1993 | See Source »

...They spun a fully functional, non-ironic disco ball. The dance floor, smaller than a New-bury Street cafe, collected tank-topped citizens of every neighborhood in Eastern Massachusetts. You could warm up here for an evening spent strolling along Revere Beach, hunting for your perfect Kelly's-roast-beef-eating, IROC-Z driving soul mate...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Narcissus Fuit, Or the Death of a Real Club | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

When only a handful of tutors attended the annual Dunster goat roast, Power said the tutors were "running scared...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, | Title: Dunster Tutors Call Free Speech a Risky Business | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

George Wendt describes his stage role -- as an alcoholic commodities trader who has gambled away his marriage, career and net worth -- as "Norm's evil twin." There isn't even that much difference between Wendt's characters. The guys gathered to roast in the tribal sweat lodge and discover the "wild men" within are losers, not predators, full of thwarted yearning and silly sweetness. One moment rises to real wit: a dream sequence in which a neglected son of a rich man summons his father, only to find the old man is as usual too busy and has sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring The Norm | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

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