28 CommentsBwog fearless restaurant resuscitation expert James Downie sent in this picture of the restaurant replacing Caffe Swish:
It looks like the new eatery is The Vine: Sushi and Sake. Given their chosen language for job notices, though, the authenticity of the cuisine remains to be seen.
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@vine put out their new menu
@new hire so they’re hiring parsons? finally a job for my UTS degree!
@noo there is no excuse for “parsonas”
@Yeppers I did prep work at one of the most famous new Southern restaurants in the South and if the head chef wasn’t preparing the meal, he had two Mexican line cooks doing it. 99% of the time they had the chef’s recipe down pat.
@Was it Whataburger?
@mexicans …cook about 90% of the restaurant meals you have eaten in New York, from the cheapest Chinese joint to the Jean Georges empire. They work harder than anyone else, the end. If you’re hiring quality, competent, experienced chefs, doesn’t matter what kind of cuisine it is, you put the shingle out in spanish.
@hey assclown take better pictures, if you can’t hold the camera still up the iso plz
@122!!!! i hear i’ll get stabbed if i go there!
@... you know what that sign screams to me… i’ll tell you what it screams to me… it screams: “we bought a fancy new sign, some foofy new light fixtures and spent a boatload on a really terrible restaurant branding agency, so now we’re putting the prices up and you won’t be able to afford to eat here!”
@Saga Fan I agree with #14 – Saga Sushi (although it isn’t known to Columbia students) on 122 and Amsterdam is still the best sushi place. 3 roll combo for $10 and $12 at dinner time…and the food is excellent!
@you guys know that you could sake bomb at swish before they closed…
@any idea when this shit opens?
@Andy Bernard But will they have the Nog-a-sake at Christmas time?
@hahaha YES the office
@SAKE BOMB sake bomb…
sake bomb…
sake bomb…
proceeds to spit out sake bomb.
@swish is the barbarian of morningside
@the people at swish can’t write in japanaese, either.
@hmmm i wonder if there will be legit sake bombing. banging tables and all.
@the people at swish can’t write in english, or spanish. not a criticism, just a note that you can’t rely on their signs as an indication of anything. they probably just want some migrant workers to do the bus boy jobs and the other dirty work. little impact on authenticity.
@nope Read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. The Mexicans do cook. In fact, according to him, they’re the best due to consistency.
Can’t find the excerpt online, but this is close enough:
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3394/features/4068/anthony_bourdain.html
@yeah exactly — not a comment on authenticity so much as the sad sad state of who’s doing what jobs.
@lol asian people trying to speak english — engrish… asian people trying to speak spanish — spangrish? lol
@XJE This might be Spanish Engrish, but “pa’ la” is actually a frequent elision in spoken Latin American Spanish. If it were an l/r confusion, “*para cocina” is still incorrect– it would have to be “para la cocina” or “para cocinar.”
@You and #1 make me sick. Oh woooooow! You know American Spanish too! No one cares…
@umm why? they were just correcting something, there’s nothing wrong with that. bwoggers correct english grammar all the time.
@mmmm excited*
@mmmm so exciting for a sake bombing joint
@jds se necesitan personas para cocina