Media attention followed (an appearance on Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" was the equivalent of an MTV video), and, finally, it went mainstream: recently, Xi'an opened outposts in Chinatown and on St. Mark's Place, where N.Y.U.
The absence of ceremony (no reservations) suits the countrified visual details, which in turn complement the full-flavored, straightforward cooking.
"No more delays by the Finish Line and UBS; no more reservation of rights; no more bankers' putting their pencils down," Genesco's chairman and chief executive, Hal N. Pennington, said in a statement.
They often figure in his menus, but if not, stop by the Spring Boutique (52 rue de lArbre Sec, no reservations) for one of the best quick lunches in town: a big bowl of chicken bouillon, prepared at Spring, ladled over vegetables, chicken, and a poached farm egg, then garnished with radishes, fresh herbs, and citrus.
The handful of fans include Anthony Bourdain, who chugged it during an episode of No Reservations to wash out the taste of rotten shark, Quentin Tarantino, who made Michael Madsen's character drink it throughout Kill Bill Vol. 2, and Dave Grohl, who shows up everywhere in Brennivín t-shirts and says that it makes you feel "like you've done acid… like you can't feel your feet".
As Anthony Bourdain gears up to take his culinary adventures to CNN, the host is wrapping up his final episode of "No Reservations" for the Travel Channel with a tour of eight Brooklyn restaurants.
"Good Pope John" was a pastoral, and not at all a doctrinal, reformer, and would have had no reservation about any of his successors' more fundamental beliefs about "faith and morals".
For them a no-reservation policy is a kind of age discrimination.
Celebrities have also been spotted: Anthony Bourdain, the host chef of "No Reservations," taped part of his show at a Fruitvale taco truck in 2009.
Those stations that have no reservation, transmit randomly in any of the slots that were empty in the previous round.
