Brunibetting: Dovetail
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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Tomorrow, Frank Bruni reviews Dovetail, John Fraser's new, critically-heralded hotness on the Upper West Side. Today, the Eater oddsmakers have set the action as follows:

Zero Stars: 9-1
One Star: 3-1
Two Stars: 2-1 √√
Three Stars: 15-1
Four Stars: 25,000-1

Imagine, if you will, that you're rolling a die and each of the six sides of the cube contained two little black dots. It would be easy to predict the outcome, no? This week, your die had two dots on all sides but one, which has one dot. Dovetail has become a real critical darling in the last bunch of weeks. Even Platt, the stingiest guy ever to use a five star system, gave it a whopping three stars. When there is such consensus the Bruni usually follows suit within a star, so two stars is quite likely and there isn't a chance in hell it'll get less than one. As for the possibility of a surprise threespot, we'd advise against breath holding. The room and the aim of the New American isn't quite high enough to spark that streak in Frankiepants. Mark it in the ledger: Eater's rolling the dice on an up-the-middle deuce this week.
· Dovetail [NYT; after 8:00 PM]

√√ denotes the Eater bet.

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