5/5 Jon L. 8 months ago on Google • 1 review
I'll
confess
that
what
first
brought
me
to
Friends
Corner
was
the
reasonable
prices.
I
had
heard
that
the
area
around
Im
Viadukt
had
some
cool
restaurants,
but
as
a
resident
of
central
Manhattan,
I
was
shocked
that
the
to
see
the
prices
at
most
restaurants
were
much,
much
higher
than
what
I
was
used
to.
At
first,
the
name
"Friends
Corner"
seemed
like
a
misnomer
to
me.
Sitting
outside
in
the
warm,
somewhat
buggy
air,
saturated
with
cigarette
smoke
(How
many
decades
will
it
take
Europeans
to
understand
that
smoking
is
stupid
and
rude?),
watching
the
server
zip
back
and
forth
without
so
much
at
a
glance...
To
be
fair,
the
people
around
me,
lingering
and
smoking
at
tables
covered
in
empty
beer
bottles,
probably
felt
Friends
Corner
was
a
perfectly
appropriate
name.
I
was
a
solo
traveler
and
my
AirBnB
host
had
her
own
life,
the
girl
who
climbed
the
cathedral
stairs
with
me
had
moved
on
to
Baden,
I'd
somehow
failed
to
properly
break
the
ice
with
the
girl
on
the
boat
tour,
and
no
one
on
my
walking
tour
had
met
anyone
other
than
the
walking
tour
guide.
Friends
Corner
was
not
responsible
for
any
of
this.
Even
so,
it
was
frustrating
leafing
through
a
menu
I
couldn't
understand
for
10
minutes
while
repeatedly
failing
to
make
meaningful
eye
contact
with
the
server
as
he
whipped
too
and
fro,
clearly
covering
more
responsibilities
than
was
plausible
for
a
single
employee.
Finally
he
stopped
by
to
find
out
what
I
wanted,
and
of
course
I
had
no
idea.
Maybe
something
from
this
'vegetarisch'
section?
I
pointed
to
the
ones
that
seemed
to
come
with
4
somethings
(curries
maybe?),
since
I
like
variety.
He
directed
me
to
one
of
the
items
with
3
somethings,
but
I
demurred.
He
more
pointedly
directed
me
to
a
second
item,
insisting
"It's
good.
It's
very
good."
So
there
you
go.
I
ordered
my
meal
without
being
able
to
read
the
menu
or
know
what
I
had
ordered,
all
based
on
an
11-second
exchange.
Ah,
but
the
food!
He
had
directed
me
to
the
dosai,
which
were
bread-like
but
had
a
satisfyingly
eggy
texture.
It
came
with
several
curries
and
also
something
that
resembled
wasabi,
yet
with
a
trace
of
mint.
It
was
quite
a
sizable
portion
of
food,
and
I
ate
every
damn
morsel
of
it.
Okay,
but
did
the
food
really
make
me
feel
like
I
was
back
in
Sri
Lanka?
You
know
what?
Yes,
it
really
did.
If
you
like
Sri
Lankan
food,
you've
got
to
visit
this
place.
(Bring
a
friend.)
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