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You Gonna Eat That Fried Chicken Claw?
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 11, 2011
Modified Feb 11, 2011
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Metromix's Alexis L. Loinaz ordered the Fried Chicken Bowl at the charming new West Village restaurant Fedora last night, and it kind of freaked him out. The dish consists of a quarter piece of fried chicken served on a bed of rice with garlic chips, arugula and cucumbers. But what the menu doesn't tell you is that it's plated, in Loinaz's words, "with the claw still attached to the leg joint, hanging off the bowl and waving a cucumber at you." Loinaz did not wave back.
"Frankly this was way over the top, gimmicky and not the most appetizing scenario," says Loinaz, who promptly hacked off the offending appendage. "We’ve heard of nose-to-tail dining, but jeez! At Fedora, it’s friggin’ beak-to-claw." Hey-o! Of course, nobody would blink an eye if this landed on a table at a dim sum joint in Chinatown, but in the West Village not everyone wants to see extraneous parts of the animal that died for their dinners. Oh well, Loinaz's loss is City Harvest's gain!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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