| Author | Message | ||
     ross wieser Citizen Username: Chameleon Post Number: 1 Registered: 6-2005 |
I was told here is a 4 star chef who has an invite only dinner group at his home, twice monthly. How do you get on his list? | ||
| frannyfree Citizen Username: Frannyfree Post Number: 188 Registered: 1-2004 |
Wow..never heard of this...ME TOO | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7282 Registered: 5-2001  |
Ross, do you happen to be that chef? Drumming up business? I've generally found that the best way to get a dinner invite is to know the host. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7283 Registered: 5-2001 |
Are you that chef by any chance, Ross? | ||
| Virtual It Girl Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 4289 Registered: 5-2001 |
Oh my goodness, I swore you wrote "blow the host." That usually works too. | ||
| rw Citizen Username: Chameleon Post Number: 2 Registered: 6-2005 |
I just heard 2 women discusing it at Kings and was curious what it was about...but thanks for the idea green tree | ||
| Hank Zona Supporter Username: Hankzona Post Number: 5489 Registered: 3-2002 |
I ought to be hosting more dinner parties, obviously. | ||
| LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1530 Registered: 10-2002  |
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| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7287 Registered: 5-2001 |
Sorry - we get those first time posters who are so overcome with joy about a business (with which they have no affiliation) that they simply must join MOL and create an objective buzz. Weird; I clicked the window closed before I hit "post" and my first post still ended up on the thread. Oh well. VIG - that's funny, but I wouldn't touch that one with a ten foo... never mind. | ||
| stefano Citizen Username: Stefano Post Number: 488 Registered: 2-2002  |
It's me. Invitations are given out to winners of my Russian roulette game that runs Sunday evenings in Memorial Park. | ||
| Eats Shoots & Leaves Citizen Username: Mfpark Post Number: 3274 Registered: 9-2001  |
I, for one, am tired of having to step around dead bodies in Memorial Park--why don't you petition the Town to have a Russian Roulette park set up near the pool on that strip of open grass, near the skatepark? | ||
| lilly westbrook Citizen Username: Lilly Post Number: 1 Registered: 4-2006 |
This is the best kept secret in Maplewood....If you know the chef or his wife and express an interest in food you get a one time invitation for dinner......If you want to come back you buy a subscription to a few dinners, which are truly unbelievable tasting menus....There are only 10 people at each dinner and they are wild fun....The trick is getting an invite as most of the dinners are booked 2 years out...I went once with my Husband and twice with a girlfriend and cannot believe the incredible meals and fun we have had...The only drawback is if you miss a scheduled dinner you are still required to pay for your seat unless you sell it to someone else on the list and that gets very dicey...my friend did that and has not been invited back since....ps the subscripton is expensive, but for what you get it is cheap by NY standards. | ||
| TomD Citizen Username: Tomd Post Number: 408 Registered: 5-2005  |
sounds a little bit like this. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 9241 Registered: 4-1997  |
For purposes of disclosure, it's important for readers to know that Lilly Westbrook and Ross Weiser are the same person or posting from the same computer. Nice catch, Greenetree!! | ||
| gtonne Supporter Username: Gtonne Post Number: 98 Registered: 9-2002 |
too funny . . . . .  | ||
| Alleygater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1772 Registered: 10-2004 |
So sad. | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 546 Registered: 1-2006  |
Username: Chameleon. That's a nice touch. J.B. | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 9251 Registered: 4-1997 |
New MOL rules... you get a username... and you post once a day.... you can have someone else post for you... but if they don't post and you don't post, you lose your login (but still have to pay). Pretty dicey stuff here. The trick is getting a login and then maintaining it and paying me a lot of money every week. It becomes, you know, a regular honor to write me a check or transfer over some stocks, CDs, whatever. Optionally, you can fill up my car's gas tank and have it washed. Also, I need some lawn work done. | ||
| Alphonse Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 9252 Registered: 4-1997 |
It's the best thing! I can't wait to pay more money! Can we send you extra money Dave? Also I enjoy your avatar, is it ok for me to use? | ||
| Dave Supporter Username: Dave Post Number: 9253 Registered: 4-1997 |
Sure you can use it! Also, you can request a double membership, but will have to post 2x/day or lose the privilege. Hundreds of people are doing it! But it's a best kept secret! | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7309 Registered: 5-2001 |
How much is the double-secret membership with guest passes? | ||
| Boomie Citizen Username: Boomie Post Number: 288 Registered: 7-2005 |
LMAO, you all are sooo bad. I love Maplewoodians. I don't live there anymore but you all are so edgy you make me wanna come back. | ||
| Tinkrock Supporter Username: Tinkrock Post Number: 119 Registered: 3-2004  |
This is hilarious. But Greenetree, Dave, you've surely scared the chef off! I'm dying to know where he was going with this. | ||
| 4-starChefSearch Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22953 Registered: 6-2001  |
And I was waiting for the menu. Greenetree! Dave!!? Why'd you scare him off? | ||
| red Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 5365 Registered: 2-2003  |
bets, I think you have signed your fate. Now you must be the chef and invite us all for dinner. When should we be there? | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7317 Registered: 5-2001 |
I apologize, all. But, I did receive the following mysterious PL from someone calling themselves "Sandra Lee": Dear Greenetree, OK, so I was engaging in a thinly-veiled, not-so-clever-act of self promotion. Irregardlessly, I am the World's Most Magnificent Chef (with the help of a few prepackaged items). You have caused your compatriots to miss out on the following: To start: porcs dans une couverture served with a delicately spiced reduction du Hellman's Accompanying wine: Boone's Farm raspberry, 1998 First course: soupe de nouilles de poulet Accompanying wine: Ruinite on ice (tastes nice) Second course: bātons de mozzarella drizzled in essence of marinara Accompanying wine: Beer goes best with this dish; either Genny Cream Ale or Rolling Rock, depending on the season. Main course: bātons de poissons avec le cassarole vert d'haricot Accompanying wine: Renault 2005 white zinfandel Salad Course: laitue d'iceberg avec le dressage russe Accompanying wine: Cold Duck sparkling wine Dessert: les twinkies avec le choclate arrose Dessert liquor: Unicum All for the low, low price of $74.95 per person. Perhaps I shall try to strike again with a more clever approach. If you see a thread in Please Help by a new poster named Rachel Ray, entitled "lost my ticket to secret chef dinner; $25 reward" I suggest that you bite. Sincerely yours, etc. etc. So, my fellow MOLers, I deeply, truly apologize for blowing this opportunity for you. | ||
| Hank Zona Supporter Username: Hankzona Post Number: 5501 Registered: 3-2002 |
I was at least hoping you'd serve Mateus so we could use the empty bottles for those cool melted candle crafts. | ||
| gtonne Supporter Username: Gtonne Post Number: 99 Registered: 9-2002 |
I hope someone is standing by in front of this persons house with a large net. | ||
| Mayor McCheese Supporter Username: Mayor_mccheese Post Number: 1189 Registered: 7-2004  |
"Perhaps I shall try to strike again with a more clever approach." Or perhaps you should try and just be truthful so that people on this board don't hate you for being sneakier than a sleazy car salesman trying to sell 3 layers of undercoat paint. You may already be too late. | ||
| red Citizen Username: Redy67 Post Number: 5372 Registered: 2-2003 |
Greentree, thanks a lot, boy I could have had a bottle of Riunite.... | ||
| JMF Citizen Username: Jmf Post Number: 258 Registered: 9-2004 |
I love this thread. Honestly, it could have worked if this person just started posting for a couple weeks about unrelated topics... Nice job by greentree by calling this one right away. The Lilly Westbrook reply is the best part though. The only other person who has heard of this just happens to be new to this board as well? come on! Think before you market yourself like that. Build a relationship with the people on this board, and most likely they would have been happy to support such a venture. Now you ruined it. | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7323 Registered: 5-2001 |
The power of MOL is a funny thing. I've heard many anecdotal stories about businesses getting more business than they can sometimes handle from MOL word of mouth. And it's true, people who join up and become "known" seem to do well. It's just a matter of waiting to get that break from a trusted MOLer who patronizes the new business and then publicizes it. And we are a prickly bunch; we don't like being manipulated or being treated like we are stupid. Be up front, be helpful. Ask people like George Berkley, Master Plumber, Mike McKell, Sherri de Rose and Millie A. And no, I am not trying to say that without MOL, these people would not have successful businesses. | ||
| Rick B Citizen Username: Ruck1977 Post Number: 1080 Registered: 8-2003  |
greenetree wrote: "And we are a prickly bunch; we don't like being manipulated or being treated like we are stupid. " and then we come to find out that Notehead and Straw are actually posting from the same computer as well... oooooh....  | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7326 Registered: 5-2001 |
So, does that mean it's really Noteberry or Strawhead? Come to think of it, I've been at parties with both of them. But never at the same time...... | ||
| bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22962 Registered: 6-2001 |
Only Pippi and Algebra2 know for sure... | ||
| lilly westbrook Citizen Username: Lilly Post Number: 3 Registered: 4-2006 |
i was only joking..i was reading over rw shoulder at the internet cafe on 23rd and thought he was cute..i was eliciting a response from him...i guess that backfired...you people need a life | ||
| Jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 552 Registered: 1-2006 |
That fake menu is great. Whoever Sandra Lee is, "Bon voyage!" for a job well done. J.B. | ||
| kmk Supporter Username: Kmk Post Number: 1186 Registered: 5-2001  |
Greenetree - You said what I was thinking all along: "The only drawback is if you miss a scheduled dinner you are still required to pay for your seat" and "ps the subscripton is expensive, but for what you get it is cheap by NY standards." Only a promoter would jump right to the $$$ Get real! (Real foodies don't care about money...  ) | ||
| greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7334 Registered: 5-2001 |
JB - thank you. Oh, Google "sandra lee". So, Lily, did you get your date with this complete and utter stranger? It must have been pretty stressful, lurking over his shoulder, getting a brand-new MOL ID and hitting on him all before he left the cafe. | ||
| wbwallflower Citizen Username: Wbwallflower Post Number: 254 Registered: 7-2005 |
This keeps getting better and better.. |
