On one visit, the choices were a rustic meat loaf, chicken Marsala or spaghetti Bolognese.
The restaurant, which is open 24 hours, has been featured on the TV show and is known for its monstrous portions of things like sage fried chicken and waffles, meat loaf, chicken pot pie and flapjacks".
WHAT WE LIKED Tuna tartare, Towering Inferno, chicken-vegetable soup, house salad, Caesar salad, Chilean sea bass over broccoli rabe, skirt steak, Gold Coast veal, pork chop, meat loaf, barbecue chicken, apple pie, pear-peach cobbler, brownie à la mode.
Something to drink with a regular dinner -- meat loaf, sauteed chicken, pork chops, maybe pasta or a stir-fry.
Though I love to cook, I put on rubber gloves when making meat loaf or rinsing chicken.
Weekly dishes -- spinach pie, meat loaf and roast chicken -- also make good leftovers.
On a recent evening, ordering omakase yielded, among other courses, a clear soup anchored by a slowly disintegrating pickled plum; little loaves of ground chicken and tofu wrapped in nori and bracketed by deep-fried shishito peppers; and a raft of sushi.
For lunch Thursday, the Goose ate an entire meat loaf, five pieces of chicken and two pints of mashed potatoes slathered in butter, according to Burnett, his best friend and worried nutritionist.
On Tuesday night — as nearly 200 people stood in line outside for a can of beef stew, a can of carrots, a bag of cereal, a can of green peas, a can of sliced pears, a quart of milk, a loaf of bread, a chicken or a frozen steak — higher forces seemed to take the drowning metaphor literally.
There, customers order such items as fried chicken, meat loaf or crab Rangoon.
Alicia Reinish, who ran Word of Mouth's catering for more than 10 years, now owns the Catered Word, which has a kitchen in the East Village and continues to deliver treasured Word of Mouth specialties, like herb-flecked meat loaf, lush macaroni and cheese, chicken salad studded with pecans and fennel, apricot-glazed ham, chicken pot pie and lemon mousse.
