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jshushan wrote:While I don't want to speak for him, TOB has got to be "The Old Board" and "Duck PB & J" is/was a dish at Bayona that was actually called a "Duck Peanut Butter and Jelly" but I don't recall any details. Hope it helps.

Jonathan

It was the smoked duck sandwich with pepper jelly and cashew butter.

Here's how GQ's Alan Richman described it:

"For the pièce de résistance, I ordered a sandwich that locals and the Bayona waitstaff advised me not to miss: smoked duck, cashew butter, and pepper jelly. It was warm and leaden, as though it had been compressed with car-crushing equipment. It glistened with fat. It had that creepy jelly and that weird butter plus a few chunks of duck and a lot of oily cooked onions. It was moist. It also was reddish brown, like the soup and, come to think of it, the walls."

Does anyone here actually LIKE Bayona?

TulaneRebel wrote:Does anyone here actually LIKE Bayona?

I have had good meals there over the years. I think the place has gotten better/back to itself since her bread company bit the dust after 08/05. She's back in the kitchen basically full time and I think the food is good these days.

Jonathan

The food is okay. Nothing very special. The service has been good for us.

PNG wrote:Commander's, Arnauds, Galatoires, Irene's Cuisine, Palace Cafe, Cafe Giovanni, GW Fins, Pascal's Manale, Emeril's, Coop's Place, others............

There are two restaurants in the City where we never had any issues and always enjoyed the food and service which are Gabrielle and Charlie's Steakhouse.

That is alot of restaurants there PNG. Are these all places that you really don't like, or just places that you think are overated?
I am just asking as I would have a hard time myself not liking Emerils and Commanders so to speak, but I could argue that maybe they are a little overrated and not worth the money, etc.

BTG wrote:That is alot of restaurants there PNG. Are these all places that you really don't like, or just places that you think are overated?
I am just asking as I would have a hard time myself not liking Emerils and Commanders so to speak, but I could argue that maybe they are a little overrated and not worth the money, etc.

Those listed are for mediocre to very poor food, and service issues mixed in with that. We do not mind poor service if the food is good.

The only thing this string has confirmed was my opinion of the opinion of others.

My list includes Mosca's, Vincent's, Venezia, Franky & Johnny's, Antoine's, Shogun, Zea, Jacques-Imos, Ninja, Sake Cafe, Bravo.......

Forgot Mosca's and Lillette.

TulaneRebel wrote:Does anyone here actually LIKE Bayona?

Me, I love the place.