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...liquor “because it has the best apple flavor” as well as “a very nice color.” The drinks at Grafton are garnished with cherries or festive apple peel, but a sugar-rimmed glass can detract a little from the tartness. Bartenders at Grafton opt for a strong sour mix, making their drinks quite tart. The effect creates a taste reminiscent of bright green blowpops. Barry thinks the drink makes a particularly good aperitif—or after-dinner drink—as well as a good accompaniment to dessert...
...This old crow said I looked like a tart, and I told her she looked like the Kaiser's mother...
Dinner in Dublin is no longer the tragedy it used to be. Sleek, glass-walled restaurants are sprouting throughout the Temple Bar neighborhood. Here you'll find updated Irish cuisine such as Bruno's haunch of venison with celeriac mousseline and Eliza Blues' beautiful gooseberry tart. (The prices are updated too. Dinner at a top restaurant costs $60 a person, including wine...
...niece (Maxime Foerste) and a lavishly charming Italian sous-chef (Sergio Castellitto). The setup and payoff of this German export couldn't be more conventional, but Nettelbeck is a sharp observer of life's surprises, and Gedeck has an appraising, intelligent beauty. Her Martha is like the film: tart on the outside, sweet on the inside, with a delectable aftertaste. --By Richard Corliss
...plot is complexity itself. It's Friday in L.A., and tart-tongued management type Lee (Catherine Keener) is ready to walk out on mousy Carl (David Hyde Pierce), a magazine writer who moonlights with plays and film scripts. His Hitler play opens tonight. His movie is being shot right now with movie star Francesca (Julia Roberts) and rising TV actor Calvin (Blair Underwood). The film's producer, Gus (David Duchovny), turns 40 today and is expected at a birthday party a few hours after he gets a massage from Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack). Everyone collides, sexually or emotionally...