According to the sharp eyes at Eater, Restaurant Girl favors the word beguiling. True, most writers (ourselves included) have been guilty of leaning on certain phrases over and over again. (Admittedly, some are more purple than others.) But only when the folks at Eater find a new way to say shitshow can we take them seriously as the word police:
February 15: "In honor of the shitshow that is Valentine’s Day…"
February 14: "Though we expect all kinds of shenanigans tonight on the part of the city’s restaurants, it will be hard to beat the shitshow that we heard about in ‘06…"
February 13: "But daddy’s opening a huge restaurant straight into an economic shitshow…"
January 25: "For an unmitigated shitshow, Chop Suey, the restaurant that is just now opening in the revamped Reniassaince Hotel in Times Square, really isn’t half bad."
January 18: "Perhaps not as much as it says about the general shitshow that continues to be that little thoroughfare we call West 23rd Street."
January 17: "And by ‘opened’ I mean ‘inhabited the still-warm corpse of that destined-to-fail post-Kiev shitshow…’"
No, we don’t have anything better to do with our time.
Just today, in fact, we decided to innovate: “…LES restaurant Rayuela was marching ever closer to the Deathwatch list, we hear it’s opening a second branch. And in the former shitbox LoSide, no less…”
Ah, what’s good for the gander! Love it!