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Trump attacked Vanity Fair because they gave his restaurant a bad review:




Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America
And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review?mbid=social_twitter



by

Tina Nguyen

December 14, 2016 3:02 pm




http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/58518de661d9dbac5b8b91bb/master/w_790,c_limit/trump-tower-grill-restaurant-new-york-city.jpg


Left, Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York City; Right, a view of Trump Grill and its patrons.
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Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through the incessant media coverage of its namesake landlord, and the many dignitaries traipsing through its marbled hall to kiss his ring—I sensed the initial symptoms of a Trump overdose. Thanks to an unprecedented influx of diners, we were sitting at a wobbly overflow table outside the restaurant, in the middle of a crush of tourists, some of whom were proposing to their partners, or waiting to buy Trump-branded merchandise, or sprinting to the bathroom.

As my companions and I contemplated the most painless way to eat our flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings with their flaccid, gray innards, as a campy version of “Jingle Bells” jackhammered in the background, a giant gold box tied with red ribbon toppled onto us. Trump, it seemed, was already fighting against the War on Christmas.

Donald Trump is “a poor person’s idea of a rich person,” Fran Lebowitz recently observed at The Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. “They see him. They think, ‘If I were rich, I’d have a fabulous tie like that.’” Nowhere, perhaps, does this reflection appear more accurate than at Trump Grill (which is occasionally spelled Grille on various pieces of signage). On one level, the Grill (or Grille), suggests the heights of plutocratic splendor—a steakhouse built into the basement of one’s own skyscraper.




http://media.vanityfair.com/photos/58518de6972218dd20575547/master/w_900,c_limit/trump-tower-grill-restaurant-new-york-city-02.jpg

Generic scenes of pastoral life and cuckoldry inside Trump Grill.
Photograph by Tina Nguyen.

On another level, Trump Grill falls somewhat short of that lofty goal. The restaurant features a stingy number of French-ish paintings that look as though they were bought from Home Goods. Wall-sized mirrors serve to make the place look much bigger than it actually is. The bathrooms transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store. And like all exclusive bastions of haute cuisine, there is a sandwich board in front advertising two great prix fixe deals.

The allure of Trump’s restaurant, like the candidate, is that it seems like a cheap version of rich. The inconsistent menus—literally, my menu was missing dishes that I found on my dining partners’—were chock-full of steakhouse classics doused with unnecessarily high-end ingredients. The dumplings, for instance, come with soy sauce topped with truffle oil, and the crostini is served with both hummus and ricotta, two exotic ingredients that should still never be combined. The menu itself would like to impress diners with how important it is, randomly capitalizing fancy words like “Prosciutto” and “Julienned” (and, strangely, ”House Salad”).....................

[katmondoo]

1. Wow! I guess I won't be going there anytime soon

[get the red out]

2. Sounds like

Fast food drive-through would be better. Hummus and ricotta....

[smirkymonkey]

10. I know - that sounds like a disgusting combo!

All of those food photographs looked revolting. You couldn't pay me to eat that slop!

[louis-t]

3. This is more fun every time I read it.

"desperately searching for tp at a Venezuelan grocery store"!

[Achilleaze]

4. "...the steak slumped to the side over the potatoes like a dead body inside a T-boned minivan."

Comrade Casino (R) is so small and such a petty prick. This draft-and-tax dodging schmuck is the best the republicans have? Sad. Really sad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Actually, he was NOT the Republican candidate. He ran as an independent

and had that famous fight with the Republican establishment over whether he would label himself as one of them.
Which explains all the Republicans who also do not want him as prez.

[Achilleaze]

12. He got the Republican nomination

and he's naming Republithugs to his Cabinet.

If it walks like a Ruskie-Republican, and lies like a Ruskie-Republican, then it's a freaking anti-American Ruskie-Republican.

[underpants]

5. a poor persons idea of a rich person,

[Cha]

6. I read that awhile ago.. it sounded just like

drumpf himself.

[Nay]

7. Jeezus! Honestly, what does this idiot do all day??

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. And Vanity is now advertising itself as the magazine Trump does not want you to read.

oooops....backfire......

[smirkymonkey]

11. I don't really think Trump voters are their demographic anyway, so it's not

like Graydon Carter is feeling any threat from the orange turd.

[Swede]

13. The Grill serves a mean martini,too.

https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/809472667506081792

[Buns_of_Fire]

15. Ice cubes? nt

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. If I got served a Martini in a wine glass with ice cubes I'd walk out.

I wouldn't have ever walked in that shit place in the first place.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. What the fuck?

[Warren DeMontague]

14. "Vanity? That's MY Job! Sad"

[Maru Kitteh]

17. This review and Trumplethinskin's reaction left me seriously considering a subscription

Very entertaining.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. From the review and the pictures

It sounds and looks like a pretty shitty restaurant.