Some Maxim-for-mouthbreathers men's "magazine" called Asylum is ranking the top most Manliest Restaurants in the US, and Zeitgeist is their pick for the West Coast:
Manliest Restaurant in the West:
Zeitgest
Location: San Francisco
You
want a burger? Well, do you, punk? Then you better shout your order
loudly at this rowdy burger spot with a great garden, bloody Marys and,
of course, burgers. These patties are the real San Francisco treat. And
as if to answer prayers, the Tamale Lady shows up at 7 p.m.
Davina Baum of Chow writes: "When hunger strikes, the hamburgers and home fries do the trick (if you can hear your name barked over the din)."
It's true that ordering food at Zeitgeist can be an exercise in frustrating futility, but does that make it manly? It just makes it a place I don't order food from. (Seeing as I am not a man, however, perhaps this is exactly what makes it "manly.")
It's undoubtedly a prickly place, but I want to ask you is this:
Can Zeitgeist truly be considered a "restaurant"? I mean, a charred cheeseburger hurled at your 45 minutes after order it from a fella with a face full of metal and a scowl the size of of his stretched earlobes doesn't exactly constitute "restaurant."
I would deem House of Prime rib pretty manly. And it's definitely a restaurant.
What do you think? Zeitgeist a restaurant or no?
[photo by Tyler Love]
