<p>We’re going to see Patrick Stewart in Macbeth tomorrow. Any place close to BAM where we could eat? (Not too slow obviously.) We like almost any kind of food.</p>
<p>Mathmom,</p>
<p>I am seeing Macbeth in March. Please report back on how you like it.</p>
<p>There is an amazing restaurant across the street from BAM called Thomas Biesel (sp?). It is Viennese.</p>
<p>Now that would be different. We spent five years near Munich, but never get any German food around here.</p>
<p>Mathmom,
With the weather forecast for tomorrow, are you sure you are going to make it to the show?? You could stay in The City and take the subway over to GCS for our Sat rendezvous!!</p>
<p>I sure hope so! I can just imagine Friday evening rush hour with snow though. Plus getting to Brooklyn. Ick.</p>
<p>There is also a Juniors right across the street from BAM.</p>
<p>I noticed that later, but we’ll be at Junior’s tomorrow. We ended up at Thomas Biesel. It was quite good, but I have yet to be at an American German restaurant that is as good as the places we regularly ate at in Munich.</p>
<p>The Macbeth was amazing. The stage design and concept were incredible. (Almost too incredible as I ended up paying more attention to them sometimes than Shakespeare’s words.) I wished I’d reread the play ahead of time though. I got a bit confused about who everyone was. They did some wonderful things with the Weird Sisters. They are on stage a lot more than what’s written into Shakespeare and it really works. I loved the way the first act ended before the intermission and how the second act begins after the intermission. Don’t want to spoil things, so I won’t say what they did, but it really works. Definitely a production that will be hard to live up to.</p>
<p>We saw Patrick Stewart in The Tempest, and he was great, as always. I had the same feeling in terms of the fact that I should have read the play beforehand, but it was still an outstanding performance.</p>
<p>Just FYI, folks, Viennese is not German! Vienna is the capital of Austria, and it’s a different country.</p>
<p>I have heard that Patrick Stewart in Macbeth is the performance of his lifetime.So glad you enjoyed it.
People, don’t you know it takes much more than a few inches of snow to affect anything in New York (excluding the airports LOL)</p>
<p>“We ended up at Thomas Biesel. It was quite good, but I have yet to be at an American German restaurant that is as good as the places we regularly ate at in Munich.”</p>
<p>Come to Staten Island, Mathmom! We’ve got a couple of really good ones.</p>
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True, but there’s a lot of overlap between German and Austrian cooking. A little more Hungarian influence in Austria. Most of the menue was similar to what I’d see at any German restaurant - strudel, sauerbraten, schnitzel with sides of spaetzle and cucumber salad. </p>
<p>The roads were completely clear, we actually ended up getting to the restaurant half an hour earlier than we meant to.</p>
<p>As for the Macbeth - I’d tell everyone to go see it, but it’s sold out.</p>