Thanks for the tip. I love sunny. 
Makes sense. We ain’t Cali folk
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From the east coast but we’ze Californians now. 
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It’s excruciating reading Manzke’s description of what happened to him.
After an unexpectedly long day yesterday I wandered over to Republique and stared at that fucking picture of Marco Pierre White for a few hours. Munched on some bread and cheese, had a glass of Armagnac, a scoop of gianduja and a scoop of tangerine.
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It’s always nice to run into two of my fellow ftcers today (@JeetKuneBao must have just missed you) who were out supporting their local restaurants. unfortunately by the time i got here around 11:30, most of the pastries were gone, including the mango passion fruit pie. the cubano was also not on the menu @foodshutterbug
along with produce republique is also selling bottles of wine and items from their larder; i saw bags of duck confit, octopus, harry’s berries, and butter @Chowseeker1999, @Bookwich, @TheCookie
pro tip: they’ll let you call ahead and reserve a slice of the mango passion fruit pie, i’ll be picking mine up tomorrow.
these traveled very well from the kitchen, to my private four-seat booth (aka my car), and into my stomach.
rigatoni bolognese, grass-fed beef and cook ranch pork ragout, parmesan
bucatini, cacio e pepe
salted caramel chocolate cake #covid15
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Man @PorkyBelly and @Chowseeker1999 you guys are giving me some real deal FOMO. The chocolate caramel cake, mango passionfruit pie and rigatoni bolognese. They look so good.
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Hi @PorkyBelly,
Thanks for the report back. Bummer they sold out of the Mango Passion Fruit Pie by 11:30 a.m. today. I guess Saturday still has a bigger crowd for folks.
Glad you got the Rigatoni Bolognese, Cacio e Pepe and the amazing Salted Caramel Chocolate Cake! 
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Just ate there for the first time. Loved the pan drippings.
how good is that rigatoni?? one of my fav in the city.
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In this new coron-infested takeout world we’re living in now, our cars are now the dining room. So was thinking of getting one of these, anybody have one?
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Today’s installment of driver’s seat dining part 1
Finally got to try the mango passion fruit pie today and holy shit, like everyone has said it is incredible. I’m usually not a fan of passion fruit because of its tartness but this was expertly balanced between the passion fruit cream and mango, not too tart and not too sweet. I’m still mad I didn’t order a whole pie #covid15
This may have topped my favorite en croute dessert they have at dinner. chef margarita is a genius. @Chowseeker1999, @TheCookie, @NYCtoLA, @attran99, @butteredwaffles, @A5KOBE, @foodshutterbug, @J_L, @JeetKuneBao, @Bookwich
Make sure to call ahead to reserve and skip the line.
11:53am: arrive at republique
11:54am: park for free in their private lot
11:55am: walk past social distancing line and to the pickup table
11:58am: mango passion fruit pie is in hand
11:59am: back in the driver’s seat
12:04pm: fin
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Hi @PorkyBelly,
Yay! So glad you got to finally try it! I thought you had already tried it before, and you were just getting another helping this time. SO GOOD right? 
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Clean take out box club! 
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Ha! You just missed “early birds” @attran99 and myself. We were in line there about 30 90 minutes before you!
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Yesterday they were selling Harry’s Berries gaviota strawberries also (which I pulled the trigger on). I also wished I had ordered an entire mango passionfruit pie to go…
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Thanks for leaving me a slice 
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I didn’t realize it was this easy! I might be able to talk the warden into letting me out for this.
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