A Pynchonian Restaurant?

[davemarc]

>From Robert Sietsema's food column in THE VILLAGE VOICE:

"Philately enthusiasts and fans of Thomas Pynchon will want to check out La
Poste, a new French bistro decorated with gilt-framed postage stamps and
ceiling fans that trade the usual wooden paddles for miniature propellers to
evoke the early days of air delivery.  Of course, the stamps become
impossible to see when the lights go down around eight, but the
banquette-ringed room is comfortable and the food so attractively presented
that you won't miss the meager visual diversion....

[snip three graphs of food review}

"Unfortunately for Pynchon fans, the emblem of La Poste is a streamlined
eagle rather than a post horn, but the pervasiveness of certain ingredients
does invite Pynchon-esque conspiracy theories.  Why are truffles, for
example, so frequently featured at such reasonable prices?  Have the
proprietors descovered a subterranean vein in the backyard?  Or is there a
secret tunnel running between La Poste and Balducci's [a top-notch food
purveyor]?  I'll be going back to test my theories."

davemarc