feel like it. city island is a fishing village turned what? a parking lot for pleasure boats and a long established restaurant row for new yorkers. picked the perfect day to come out here. desus says this place, and 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.
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. steamers, the true taste of childhood. boiled striper and snow crab and a nice cold beer, yes, thank you, desus. it s like a knighting ceremony. just sit up, and, like, take it all in. thank you. i could have done that myself. that s part of the it s part of the ambiance. it s the perfect place for a date, but it s the worst food for a date. it s either a huge turnoff or a huge turn on. you might give a lady a preview of what they re about to get into, a little bib, little sucking action.
off everybody else. and he comes from work and says our dishwasher didn t show up today. you are our new dishwasher. 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. 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
i had be i hadn t been working for a while. she came home from work and said our dishwasher didn t come today. you re our new dishwasher. i put on the apron and didn t take it off for 30 years. we d go to the beach, 2:00, 3:00. roll into work, drink get high, drilling out food. you got all the food, liquor you wanted. all the sex you wanted. all the sex you wanted. it was true. it was a lot of fun. believe me, i remember. the flag ship, where my cooking career started. where i start washing dishes, started having pretensions of culinary granger. it would seem good for anybody. who else got to live like that did during that time? you had to be in a band. here we were dishwashers. you get older and get more sense and realize like you know,
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 one 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. it was like, oh, man! oh! i was freaking out. and yet, these kids today, look at them go, serving a wildly ambitious and quite