Journalist reviews 8 uptown French onion soups.
A dream job that I didn't know existed.
Good morning everyone.
I hope you figured out a bundling protocol and left the house this weekend. Despite the cold, it was very sunny. I sat at the 12-seat bar at Stars on Friday night. They have this little ham plate that comes with maple butter and blinis, which, when eaten together, taste like the fanciest diner breakfast you could imagine. Because the room is so small, it takes on this fishbowl quality. Excited groups of girls in tights and boots rubbing shoulders with men discussing work and ski trips. You don’t have to try too hard to eavesdrop (although they have an impressive Tom Bloxam speaker situation) or see what anyone is ordering.
Everyone on the subway this weekend looked like an extra in The Revenant — really spectacular furs on men and women. I watched two Upper East Side high school girls drinking Natalie’s Lemonade and tiny bottles of 1800 tequila on their way to a Galentine’s Day party. The older women around them rolled their eyes, but instinctively kept an eye on them between 14th Street and 86th street. Yesterday, I felt cozy in train cars full of tin foil-wrapped trays of wings and other mysterious Super Bowl snacks. Men kept six packs safe and secured between their sneakers on the dirty train floor.
Today’s newsletter includes: We’re getting a Clavicular profile in The New York Times, The New Yorker hired a laid off Washington Post critic, the internet’s filler and Botox journey, and an Upper West Side soup critic doing the Lord’s work.
Guest Lecture is a Feed Me series where I introduce you all to an expert who I’m curious about, and give paid readers an opportunity to ask them anything they want. Past guests have included Olivia Nuzzi, Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Kareem Rahma.
For our next Guest Lecture, we’re interviewing Julia Collier, chief marketing officer at J. Crew.
This week on the Feed Me Job Board: Studio Assistant at AFLALO, Director of Finance at The Bulwark, and Social Media Associate at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Puck’s Dylan Byers interviewed Matt Murray, The Washington Post’s executive editor, about the paper’s mass layoffs. Byers asked Murray twice how many people work at WaPo now, and both times, he couldn’t give an answer.
From the Feed Me Tip Line: David Lynch’s estate is listing some of his items, like speakers and watches. (Current bidding for a used Beats wireless speaker is $1,225.00). What’s interesting is that local pickup in the Hollywood Hills is an option. Wonder if it’s this Frank Lloyd Wright house…
You are $2.2mm and a few saunas and cold plunges away from building your own adult summer camp in the Catskills. There are nine rental cabins on the property, and 21 RV pads too (additional revenue opportunity!!). Alternative idea: a new home for a Brooklyn polycule.