Sad
This has been a long time coming--and it is a shame---but true.
When you fall from grace with Pete Wells at the NYT your life is going to change.
With the reputation formally earned and widely known it will take time--and so they have a real opportunity to turn this around. If they fail to do that eventually this will catch up to them--and that is always sad to see.
For a better choice I suggest Keens Steakhouse in mid-town.
Joe---come and visit and I'll buy whatever you can eat
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis