Maybe they were thinking of “Gay Bar or Fruit Preserves?”
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This also works for strip clubs and steakhouses, although there’s some overlap.
Here in NYC we have the Strip House, which is a bordello-themed steakhouse (not an actual bordello). We also have Robert’s, which is an otherwise respectable steak house inside an actual strip club. Also one of the best NYT restaurant reviews ever (made all the better if you know that the reviewer is gay).
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Can we get a gay steak house bar?
And thanks to @logruszed for suggesting just the thing!
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Do you realize that was almost 20 years ago?
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sits down slowly
Kids born when that came out are in college.
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Oh heck I was still newly married and saw the pilot at Spike and Mikes… you youngster.
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As a Seattle area resident, seeing the words Daniel’s Broiler makes my mouth water.
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I still haven’t been there. Got to go to El Gaucho on a friends company card twice though.
I pirated episodes at thumbnail gif quality at the UofO when it first came out! I may be young (I’m 37!!), but I act old, damnit!!
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There are a few like this in Tokyo, “Hot Beef” is one
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Stop making me feel old.
Also South Park is still relevant. And if kids don’t get this or early 90s SNL references, that is their loss.
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It’s the bees-knees, daddy-o!
Let’s split this pop-stand, it’s like, gag me with a spoon?!!
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I know. I KNOW… There are people walking around who have never lived in a world without south park! Wrap your brainmeats around that one!
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I know, right. It’s just funny, I think. I still think of South Park as being aired recently, but it’s not.
I constantly try and show my kid SNL bits that I love. And two things I like to show in class when I’m teaching is Phil Hartman as Reagan and Sinead O’Conner ripping up the picture of John Paul 2… Last time I showed the Sinead clip, the undergrads all audible gasped!
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Wait… is that a gay bar or steak house? Or both?
Actually - what are gay bars in Japan like, I wonder?
Steakhouse
I don’t know
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Ah!
I wasn’t asking you, specifically, just a general wondering… Are there gay bars, though? There must be, right?
There is a district of bars for homosexuals in Tokyo in a area called Shinjuku ni-chome (second part pronounced “choumay”).
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Isn’t Shinjuku also where all the kids go on Sundays to hang out in outlandish clothes? Or is the ni-chome part specifying a specific part of Shinjuku (or am I thinking of a totally different area where all the kids do that)? Or is it just sort of like many urban areas of the US used to be, where there were neighborhoods that had a very diverse crowd of social outsiders?
Shit. I need to read a social history of Tokyo, don’t I? Now I’m interested in this topic.
you’re thinking of Harajuku
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