You know what an awesome friend is? An awesome friend is one who, when you casually mention that you really want to go see Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, remembers this as your birthday approaches and gets tickets for you, even though she wants nothing more than to pretend the show doesn’t exist, and has absolutely no desire to go see it whatsoever. Oh – hi, that awesome friend is me… yes, for DLS‘s birthday, I got tickets to see Spiderman. And it was every bit as bad as I thought it might be – maybe even worse. Friends, it was easily the worst show I’ve ever watched. I realize I don’t talk about my love of theater here often (or ever?), but I used to go at least once a month (mostly because I thought I was going to move out of NYC shortly, and when people ask me why I love NYC so much, ‘the theater’ was always my first answer – and then I realized I didn’t really take advantage of it… so I started). In any case, boy I’m chatty today!, Spiderman was the worst show I’ve ever seen. EVER. And some of them have been super amateur hour… this just was AWFUL.
But I couldn’t post about this here except… of course we ate before the show. I’d wanted to go to Marseille, but surprisingly it was completely packed and had a 45 minute wait. As did every single other place we tried. It wasn’t looking too promising until we stumbled into 44 SW, which had a table immediately for us, and a menu that we both were fine with. I informed our server that we had a show to catch and she didn’t seem phased, though our food took a while to come. (Sorry for the super blurry photos, I used the point & shoot, and we were hungry and in a rush so I just snapped a photo each and let it go at that.)
DLS chose the chicken marsala, which surprised me by coming sliced up and tossed with pasta. He liked it well enough though.
I chose the chicken francaise, which had mashed potatoes and veggies. I thought it was decent, not overcooked chicken, lemony, and perfectly tasty.
Yvo says: Though the food took a little bit to come out (like long enough that we were both super concerned), in the end the timing was fine and the food was tasty. I wouldn’t go out of my way to dine here, but if you’re in the area and need a quick bite before a show… this will totally suffice. But please don’t go see Spiderman, that was totally horrible and a waste of money, ugh.
middle of the road
TT says
looks like you have been taking some photography pointers from me.
Feisty Foodie says
What with this post and Socarrat Paella Bar… yeah 🙁
Bianca says
Agree on all accounts. I had the displeasure of seeing spiderman in one of its many preview states as well as final. And lucky for me I did not pay for either pair of tickets. Really the only thing you can be thankful for is that as bad as the final product is, it is not as bad as what I saw the first time around. Horrid.
I also arrived at 44SW one night pre-theater when everything else was too crowded. I thought it was way too dark in there btw. The food was perfectly fine but nothing amazing and a bit too pricey for what it was in my opinion.
Feisty Foodie says
Yeah, definitely dark as evidenced by my pictures, hahaha! And your second paragraph pretty much sums it all up (I forgot the prices).
T.C. says
Spidey is that bad? Booooooo. Oh well. At least no one got hurt.
Not so special italian food sounds like a pass. Shake Shack before a show it is. 😛
Feisty Foodie says
The line at SS is crazy!
skippymom says
Those are easily the worst pictures you have ever posted on here. heehee
I couldn’t tell what the first one was until you specified. The chicken francaise looks good tho’.
Feisty Foodie says
I disagree – last week’s photos from Socarrat Paella Bar are much worse, you can barely tell it’s a pan of paella!
hungry says
Yeah, the area sucks during pre-theater hour.
Feisty Foodie says
It was my fault… I was being bratty because he wanted to go to Room Service and I refused (it was empty).