BruniBetting: Mas
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Tomorrow, Frank Bruni reviews Mas, Galen Zamarra's very romantic West Village mini-farmhouse. Today, the Eater oddsmakers have set the action as follows:

Zero Stars: 8-1
One Star: 5-1
Two Stars: 3-1 √√
Three Stars: 6-1
Four Stars: 7,500-1

First and last, this is the Bruni's own re-review. In July 2004 he gave it one star and concluded: "My meals at Mas tended to end with a whimper...But then I would walk outside, onto that quaint and quiet street, and find myself wanting to give everything about Mas the benefit of the doubt. It has the location. It has the potential. With better judgment and more vigilance, it could well live up to both." Mas is too good a restaurant for a downgrade and not nearly far enough uptown to command a re-review on a account of renovation (it's recently been through a small nip and tuck). So, the real question today is, How much better has it gotten in the Bruni's mind? It's crazy but not insane to think Mas is getting a two star upgrade, to the three-pack, because it is a spectacular little restaurant. Even so, Eater's anticipating the deuce, looking out especially for the rah-rah, go-team redemption language.
· Mas [NYT; after 8:00 PM]

√√ denotes the Eater bet.

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