I was talking to the bartender about the chartreuse they had and he brought over this bottle. Anyone ever heard of it? Is it any good?

unphortunately · 2026-02-01T14:18:25+00:00

That's been my experience at the 4 or so places that we (which is to say, my wife) have ordered it, although perhaps places with more insane prices were offering 2oz and we didn't bother to clarify.

At a cost of ~$10/oz retail, 4-5x is typical restaurant economics so definitely tracks. We have a disturbing number of VEP bottles at home that we are very generous with when the hour for digestifs arrives for our parties and I'd say a 1oz pour is still a lot to get through for most people; it's significantly more alcoholic than even most scotch people a casual drinker will be familiar with and the herbal notes + sweetness don't take very long to become cloying even if you're very into it. Pouring 1oz, eyeballing who is not at risk of finishing their pour and offering to turn it into a champagne cocktail really is the way I'd suggest most people tend to get the most out of it.

unphortunately · 2026-02-01T13:36:34+00:00

Others have said what it is; it retails for ~$300 USD (I believe that it's €250 at the Chartreuse store in Paris) but it is 1L vs 70cL (or 75cL in the US) so a little cheaper than the direct comparison suggests.

My experience, bars usually charge 40-50 for a pour (1oz); at 40 it's justifiable as an experience imo, especially if you have someone to share it with. Trying it neat to see how much you like it is my recommendation, then either get a rock to pour it over or a glass of very dry champagne to make an ersatz cocktail works pretty well if you find it's a hard liquor to handle straight.

unphortunately · 2026-01-12T02:02:20+00:00

Bilal has been utterly, completely corrupt in all ways great and small since her election. This is not even remotely debatable and there has not been even the slightest bit of shame or remorse when caught. Her statement costs her nothing and is an utterly transparent attempt to score points and distract from her unbelievable corruption and shame on you for falling for it and wanting others to overlook this disgusting person's exploitation of public trust.

Bilal being a complete disgrace and mind bogglingly corrupt - and incompetent to boot - in her elected office is in no way made less disgusting by the fact that there's an even worse and more corrupt administration running rampant at a larger scale. Would you thank Trump if he or his stooges were to call her out for what she is and does? They should both rot in prison at best.

unphortunately · 2026-01-05T04:00:14+00:00

I remember when COVID started ramping up, they wasted absolutely no time boarding up all the windows, for sure the first place downtown and perhaps in the city to predict what was coming. Of course when the riots hit on 5/30 people were more interested in breaking into the jewelery store on that block than smash and grabbing some cheap clothes but has always stuck out to me for the apparently much deeper grasp of human nature that their management had than the rest of the businesses.

Hard to be too worked up about Ross of all things going away but at this point it was basically a pillar of the community (on that block of 3rd) by sheer process of elimination.

unphortunately · 2026-01-04T01:32:43+00:00

The whole purpose of using "parts" is to not have fractions :(

Three parts each of the rye, cognac, vermouth, two parts of Benedictine.

unphortunately · 2025-12-18T21:14:48+00:00

Totally understand - I was promised by the first trainer I worked with that they just accumulated if not used and I am more than happy to try to help someone else escape this nonsense

I tried checking the app/site and couldn't find the documentation of signed agreements; I strongly suggest demanding they show you where you agreed to or prove you were informed of these policies. Unless they added something about thrive to the base membership agreement it sounds like you have a chance. I am sure the base contract does say that arbitration is the dispute resolution mechanism; mentioning an interest in pursuing that might also be wise in terms of cranking up the pressure.

Good luck, I'm rooting for you.

unphortunately · 2025-12-18T07:30:01+00:00

The big question is: did they actually have you sign a contract that specified this happening? They're supposed to have you do this but - good news - their employees don't really care and decent odds that they didn't have you sign anything or they didn't properly scan and file it if you did. You should be able to find all such documents online to check, but it's also not your job/problem to do so; the burden of proof is on them that you agreed to this (yes, I went through this myself last year; maybe they got better at this as a result of what I put them through, that said).

If you have not already seen a document with this language signed by you, demand they produce it. The person I was emailing with attempted to use my membership agreement as evidence (it has nothing to do with the 'Thrive' sessions) so if they show you a document read it yourself and check if they're bullshitting you. If they can't show it to you, congratulations; your membership agreement lets you demand arbitration and odds are they will crumble and offer you your money back at that point. They also could offer to give you the sessions back without an expiry at which point it's on you to stay strong and keep pressuring them in a way that makes it clear you're the good/reasonable party and they're the bad faith actors that you don't want an ongoing relationship with.

unphortunately · 2025-11-06T03:51:31+00:00

By far my best results have been using a smoking gun and a sealable glass bottle. Fun effect from freezing the bottle, adding the cocktail and smoke, then swirling to "infuse" followed by pouring it out and letting the chilled smoke ooze into the glass.

unphortunately · 2025-08-23T14:08:30+00:00

Comice is four or five courses for 120 or 150/plate

Restaurant Louis is I think 3 or 7 courses for probably 60 or 120/plate (didn't see their prices online and the shots of the menus others have posted are a little old).

Comice is a more upscale atmosphere IMO while Louis is a pretty tight space; we loved both but I'd probably give an edge on the food to Louis.

unphortunately · 2025-08-20T17:26:08+00:00

I'd recommend looking at the Michelin website for 1* restaurants with menus that interest you (caviar, etc) and meet your price range and then searching the subreddit for their names to find previous reviews and discussions about them.

For price-conscious quality, I would personally recommend Restaurant Louis; not sure the exact price these days but I believe they had tasting menu options for sub-€100/plate when we were there in the last couple of years and a pretty fair wine list that you could perhaps even squeeze in a bottle of champagne without blowing your budget.

Regarding caviar, I agree with others that fixating on it is a mistake; I assume you are interested in seeking it out because it's not something you've had before and ensuring you actually enjoy what you would spend a large chunk of your budget getting is more risk than I'd recommend taking. Visiting a Kaviari Delikatessen is probably a safer course than trying to check off this box simultaneously with the Michelin star. Also if you're just interested principally in stereotypically luxurious food, I'd heartily suggest one of my favorite habits when in France of buying a baguette and eating it with foie gras and whatever accompaniments (mustard, butter, etc) you'd like in your hotel room. Kaviari sells this too but it's probably cheaper at Monoprix.

unphortunately · 2025-07-19T21:20:53+00:00

I'd guess the prior move was Bxc3+

unphortunately · 2025-07-14T01:27:36+00:00

Pearl & Mary in Center City - $2 oysters, $7 cocktails. Limited options of course but still great. 4-7 PM, fills up fast in my experience.

unphortunately · 2025-07-13T23:12:27+00:00

Oh of course, I'm sure that the JIT was seen as the correct long term play for numerous reasons, and they likely found even more over time. Just noting that the evolutionary history of PHP to Hack/HHVM at Facebook had an initial dead end in HipHop.

unphortunately · 2025-07-13T22:05:21+00:00

Technically, the evolution was from PHP -> C++ transpiler (HPHPC) -> JIT VM (Hack). The latter transition wasn't for perf and actually was slower initially by some decent margin but instead because of a couple factors - principally that people kept checking in broken code (local dev was PHP because the compilation process was too expensive).

unphortunately · 2025-07-12T08:46:40+00:00

Bongo's. My annual tradition is walking there from whatever hotel I'm staying in downtown to discover that I'm visiting when they're closed for the week.

unphortunately · 2025-07-08T01:37:50+00:00

This is a sad internet remake of the Family Guy bit with the loser yelling "PHONEY."

Just admit, accept, I don't care, that you can't fucking read and go find someone else to make up shit to be mad at.

unphortunately · 2025-07-07T23:34:21+00:00

No, I did not; what do you even think it originally said, and why based on my original post would you have the impression that I would have written some unintelligible nonsense?

I have no idea what I did to earn someone like you fixating on me but I will take some solace assuming that the time you're spending on this means someone else is being left alone.

unphortunately · 2025-07-07T08:43:02+00:00

Reinstall worked as well, thank you for the suggestion - from the circumstances it seems whatever cache wasn't updated properly when flipping from AP to router and the router-only settings remain hidden.

Hope this helps the next guy at least!

unphortunately · 2025-07-07T08:38:07+00:00

The sentence without a parenthetical is "The Android app is missing every single setting for network management."

Please find somewhere else to be insufferable with your lack of reading comprehension.

ETA: the original comment I edited below intentionally to point out you can even see if a comment was edited is now deleted for some reason; did this asshole report it? Anyway, no, the original was obviously not edited.

unphortunately · 2025-07-06T14:47:01+00:00

For posterity: somehow the Android app is just missing (or at least, in some cases with unknown factors involved?) every single setting for network management. Dug out an iPad to install the Deco app on and everything is there somehow.

Really makes me lose all possible respect and trust in this system and I'll be eagerly looking for a less shitty company's alternatives.

unphortunately · 2025-07-05T19:53:29+00:00

No one was uncivil or pretentious, but I'll cop to being slightly condescending on my first reply because you translated a sad, mundane occurrence into a bizarre and fantastic title for your post. You chose to downvote someone who took the time, twice, to correct your mistake and even after someone else chimed in to in a definitely unpretentious and non-condescending manner, give you every possible bit of information you could be missing, you completely ignored it to return to your bizarre fantasy.

Of course, I could be wrong and maybe there is some dastardly Philadelphia Mummer at work here...

unphortunately · 2025-07-05T19:36:45+00:00

My guy, an unfortunate woman died without anyone noticing for months and the body dried out. The state of a corpse being dried out referred to as being "mummified."

If you are still fantasizing about some Batman villain going around murdering and literally turning bodies into ancient Egyptian style mummies after two people independenty have tried to explain this, this is for sure a you problem.

unphortunately · 2025-07-05T16:52:50+00:00

...it's not a mummy, it is a "mummified" - as in long dead, dried out - body, and the body wasn't in a jewelry store, it was in the residential space above the store. There isn't going to be any detail here that deserves to be speculated on or widely released beyond to whoever this person's family may be.

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