est ketchup, which i m reliably informed means everything is cool in local idiom. at this point in my life, i just don t know anymore. are these young cooks, these servers, these dedicated entrepreneurs, are they hipsters, or am i just a cranky, old [ muted ] who thinks anybody below the age of 30 is a hipster? i don t know, but i admire them. how much did it cost you when you opened? not much. look at this tiny electric four-burner stove. at no point in my cooking career could i have worked with thun of these without murdering everyone in the vicinity before hanging myself from the nearest beam. how long did it take you to adapt to the i would say like three months. at the beginning, i was lucky i didn t have a lot of customers.
across town another thing entirely. the younger, wilder la faire ketchup, which i am informed means everything s cool in local idiom. at this point in nye life, i just don t know any more. are these young cooks, these servers, these dedicated entrepreneurs, are they hipsters or am i just a cranky old [ muted ] who thinks anybody below the age of 30 is a hipster. i don t know. but i admire them. how much do they cost you when you hope? look at this tiny electric four-burner stove. at no point did my cooking career, could have i worked with one of these without murdering everyone in the vicinity before hanging myself from the nearest beam. how long did it take you to adopt? i would say like three
desus is always right. how far from the neighborhood by car? by car? 15, 20 minutes. 20 minutes? seems like a world away. yeah, i want to buy some nautical bric-a-brac while i m here. this is new york city? this is cape cod in the bronx. you get here, and oh, the beach is closed for medical waste. it s not a day that you don t go in the water and come out with a maxi pad stuck to you. you were here yesterday? i was here yesterday, for my sister s graduation. every time you have an event of note in the bronx, you have to come celebrate here. i noticed all the big catering halls. if you get married, arraigned. the baby s not yours. you come here. seashore restaurant. a massive fish factory, having started my cooking career in one just like it. i m also a sentimental fool, and i love this kind of thing.
you have all the food you wanted, all the liquor you wanted. all the sex you wanted. all the sex you wanted. it was true, it was fun. we had a good time. and yet you still were an essential part of the economy. it was a lot of fun, believe me, i remember. the flagship, it s where my cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. it would seem like a good gig for anybody. who else got to live like that at that time? you had to be in a band, here we were, we were dishwashers. yeah, you get older and more sense and you realize that like, you know, you got to like pace yourself a little bit. otherwise, we still wouldn t be here. well, you know, many of our friends from those days didn t make it. many of my friends are dead, yeah. [ applause ] as you were. keep drinking, keep drinking. thank you. thank you, tony. this place has been here forever. that used to be the back room. back room s still t
and i said, oh, really. and the next day i put on the apron and didn t take it off for 30 years. i d wake up, all of us go to the beach, hang out on the beach until like 2:00, 3:00. yeah, it was fun. roll into work. work all night. drinking, getting high, drilling out food. you have all the food you wanted, all the liquor you wanted. all the sex you wanted. all the sex you wanted. it was true, it was fun. we had a good time. and yet you still were an essential part of the economy. it was a lot of fun, believe me, i remember. the flagship, it s where my cooking career started. where i started washing dishes, where i started have pretensions of culinary grandeur. it was a good gig for anybody. who else got to live like that during that time? you had to be in a band, here we were, we were dishwashers. yeah, you get older and more sense and you realize that like, you know, you got to like pace yourself a little bit. otherwise, we still wouldn t be here. well, you know