Our guidebooks had led us to expect no more of the hotel kitchen than exemplary fish and chips.
At her new place, 606 R&D, the small kitchen includes both a rotisserie (for exemplary roast chicken) and a Donut Robot, financed through Kickstarter, that churns out fresh cake doughnuts throughout the day.
Everything on my plate, from a well-judged curried bean salad to a thick hummus with a garlicky, lemony lick to it, suggests that the kitchen is going about its work with exemplary commitment and honesty.
Sharee, who friends described as an exemplary student who had just returned form visiting family in Florida, had gone into the kitchen to get a drink of water when she was hit.
On that less-than-spectacular Sunday, someone had gone salt crazy in the kitchen, dousing both a fried mushroom appetizer ($6) and the meat in an otherwise exemplary warm Philly cheese steak sandwich ($8).
He delighted the critics, who described him as "slippery" (Evening Standard), "benign, eye-rolling, lip-licking" (Evening News), "exemplary... like Ivan the Terrible in a ginger wig" (Observer) and "a dustbin Boris Godunov, a kitchen-sink Rasputin" (Daily Mail).
"Exemplary, exemplary!" he cried.
They were mostly exemplary.
