MarkC wrote:If veal isn't much featured in their offerings in general, it's perhaps an even odder reflection that they would choose it as they did for such a limited menu. It leaves me in the same place -- wondering about their thought processes.
Maybe it's
your thought processes. <ducking> Let's face it, the treatment of veal calves is by no means a widely held cause celebre, however passionately the few who know about it may care. One reason, I suppose, is that mainstream America has never had much of a taste for veal - we prefer beef. So you don't see free-range veal in the food stores as you do free-range beef, or for that matter free-range chicken, wild (as opposed to farmed) salmon, etc.
Veal remains a mainstay of the popular continental European cuisines, Italian and French and German for starters, and of many New York restaurants featuring those cuisines such as La Fenice on my list. If there's any conscientious objection to restaurants that have veal on the menu, then forget about La Fenice.
As for O'Neals', they have been one of the most successful restaurants in the Lincoln Center area for many years. Why they are closing now is undisclosed, but will probably come out before long; the more I think about it, the more I'm sure that their lease must be ending and the owners of their building, newly and expensively rebuilt, are now demanding too much rent. Certainly it can have nothing to do with the food they offer their customers, including us.
The "concert idea" was scuttled some time ago, I think, when it was decided to meet up at a time when there are no concerts.
Unless any of us is keen to hear Bramwell Tovey conduct the New York Philharmonic in the Donna Diana overture, Suppé's Light Cavalry, and other such chestnuts.
For slofstra: Lincoln Center is as convenient for out-of-towners as any other destination we'd be likely to choose, with a direct subway link from Penn Station and MTA buses that go up 8th Avenue and Broadway. No problem there.
