Extreme Restaurant Reviewing P2.1: Goats Eye Soup

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OK I love Robert Sietsema's food writing. He's absolutely fearless, pursuing mystery meats throughout the five boroughs of New York City. But THIS:

http://www.villagevoice.com/nyclife/0518,sietsema,63646,15.html

It's no joke. It took me three glasses of wine to regain my appetite.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Fancy a goat eye?

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I couldve sworn this'd be a Tep thread!

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart Robert Sietsema

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No, seriously. Let's go eat goat bits.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

FAGOAT?

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 5 May 2005 02:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hey is this Tom Sietsema's brother? Tom is the Washington Post's restaurant critic. So one brother works in DC, and one in NYC. Cute.

― Richard K (Richard K), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

they are copying Blake and Adam Gopnik!

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.wanadoo.nl/rollingstones/images/Coversi-q/it

― Dennis, Thursday, 5 May 2005 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey!! That's the Uighur restaurant that Hstencil and I were talking about going just last week in Alex in NYC's Chinese food thread!

NYC ILX'rs: Name Your Favorite Chinese Restaurant in Manhattan

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's Go!

― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 5 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty years pass...

Robert Sietsema is a distant cousin of now retired Washington Post food critic Tom.

Robert is working on a memoir and posted in his Substack some amazing tales of eating weird food with New Orleans musician Dr John

https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsietsema/p/dr-john-dining-companion?r=2ck8a&utm_medium=ios

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 March 2026 23:09 (two months ago)

“As other diners looked on in mock horror, Mac and I went eyeball for eyeball in a contest to see who could eat the most, in emulation of the annual Nathan’s Famous competition”

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 24 March 2026 23:10 (two months ago)

Robert Sietsema "whose refined palate is usually satisfied by Boar's Head sandwiches . . . ."

― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 24 March 2026 23:31 (two months ago)

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