I used to walk by the French Culinary Institute all the time when I lived down in Chinatown. It never occurred to me to eat at L'Ecole. Why? Who knows, maybe it was because I was young and in college, and fried chicken from a cart in Chinatown was enough sustenance. Or maybe it was because I studied computer science and it pained me to eat food that was prepared by individuals who pursued their dreams while I debugged while loops over and over and over...