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Your eyes aren't playing tricks on you folks. That's a pair of Mickey D's Chicken McNuggets in their natural habitat slurping down some barbecue sauce. They're part of the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill that opened in New York City's West Village earlier this week. Other critters at this decidedly strange pet store include a pair of fish sticks swimming happily around a bowl. There's also a wide selection of hot dogs that behave oddly like snakes as they enjoy the warm rays of heat lamps. There some more conventional pets too, like a rabbit that preens in its cage applying her makeup.
I haven't been to the Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill yet, so I'm not sure what kind of food they serve. It strikes me as kind of cruel to eat chicken nuggets and hot dogs once you realize they're sentient beings. If I were a betting man I'd say the whole operation is a big hoax and that they don't sell any pets or cook anything on a charcoal grill at all. And that's because it is a hoax of sorts. All of the "pets" at the store are actually animatronics designed by the prankster artist Banksy as part of his latest show.
Village Pet Store is located at 89 7th Avenue between West 4th and Bleeker Street and is open from 10 a.m. to midnight until Halloween. Those not in the New York City area can check out the bizarre goings on in this video. I'll leave it up to the critics to decide whether this weird little emporium qualifies as art. At least the dude found an amusing way to repurpose Chicken McNuggets.
[via Wooster Collective]
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10-11-2008 @6:14PM Rt said... Another post about NY,NY. Can you spell egocentric?
One would think fifty percent of the population lived there.
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10-11-2008 @7:58PM peggy said... so, if one of the animals dies, does the grill get it then? i think it's kind of wierd... well, really wierd. and the pet store smell does not lenditself well to a restaurant. ya think?
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10-12-2008 @2:33AM Kelly said... Wow, angsty much, RT?
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10-12-2008 @11:26AM Gobo said... Jeez, RT. Lighten up. I think if you read ANY culinary or art blog, you'll notice that the majority of the posts are about cities like New York, Paris, London, and Tokyo... because that's where most of the innovation happens.
Of the posts on the front page today, a single one is about NYC.
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10-12-2008 @11:27AM Gobo said... Also: This is not a real pet store, nor is it a real restaurant. It's an art installation with animatronic food and animals. Nothing is for sale.
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10-12-2008 @6:19PM Rt said... Kelly - I don't know whether to think the y is a typo in "angsty" or if you are turning a noun into a verb (common but not necessary in most cases - 'are you feeling some angst' would have been better).
Regardless, the answer is no. I did not write a hostile comment, odd that you took it that way. I was trying to make a point however.
As an avid reader of the blog I have noticed trends and NY seems to have been one of them lately. I like more diversity so I made the comment.
I trust the editors (if there are any) accepted the remark in the way it was meant - constructive criticism.
Gobo - You are going to offend many chefs in many cities. You probably think the cities you mentioned are the best because they get a disproportionate amount of press coverage. Starting with our friends to the north, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver, while here at home Portland and Seattle in the northwest, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the west central, Dallas and New Orleans in the south, with Miami and Atlanta on the east coast (my apologies for omitting the central states but the point should be made by now), all of these cities have reputable 'fine dining' establishments that innovate constantly. Instead of self centered I might have said myopic. Does that sound better?
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