The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

feelin like shit so im out morbs

No can do, but definitely maybe next week.

well next week is (yet again) the night before I start a brand-new job, so not a good idea for me.

i'm out tonight & next week--gotta see a show tonight & a movie next week.
also i got the hangover gang over.

so looks like I can do the laundry tonight?

Go ahead.

tonight was no good for me either. could do next week

movie round at Sh4rlenes tnite is Blazing Saddles! but I cannot drink 4-6 beers night before the new job.

Am under weather so can't really do something like that either.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a place wherein one could drink something and read late at night? Like at least til midnight but perhaps even til 2? I'd prefer a coffeeshop, but I'd take a quiet bar.

Don't know what time they close, but Henry Street Alehouse is probably the most like what you're looking for.

Would it be a ridiculous place to sit with a textbook on a less busy night?

Hmm, apparently the Park Plaza diner is open late. Diner atmosphere is less than ideal but clean well-lighted etc.

No, I don't think that would be too ridiculous.

So Downtown has a new arty-spacey-thingy:

http://177livingston.org/

I went to the kickoff event which had Ed Park and Lynne Tillman and a good experimental film and some bands. It's right across the street from Dallas BBQ which makes for kind of a weird gentrification showdown scene on the opposing sidewalks.

i was there too! got there in the middle of lynne tillman speaking. LOVED the film.

dallas bbq has lunch specials fyi, and their chicken sandwiches are huge. and their fries are good.

Ed Park was very likable. I think I'll read Personal Days.

I've been to the Dallas BBQ in Chelsea - it feels sort of like this weird outpost for tourists who feel a little too freaked out by New York by that point in their day to eat dinner in a New York kind of place. I thought the food was somewhere in between Applebees and Chili's. I guess it would probably make a good lunch at some point being so close to the school.

Donna for a second I thought you were my friend Donna who I ran into there, but then I remembered she hated the film.

haha also i am a boy

"the school" = bklyn law?

indeed

donna rouge, this is what you are doing instead of coming to the crossword tournament?

hurting, my roommate just started there

JR: had to spend daytime doing thesis work; were there post-xword drinks?

Oh yeah? E-mail me if you want. I probably don't know him since 1Ls take all their classes with 1Ls. If he wants a 2L to talk to about exams or choosing classes or the (non-existent) job market or whatever I could give advice.

DR, did not go to any drinks, but jaymc did. Your name is still showing up on the xword rolls, but with zero scores.

there's a 78 listening party today @ the bell house; i'm not gonna go, but maybe you guys are interseted. 5-9pm.

Haha I think that's being put on by a friend of mine, but I'm so not leaving the house.

OK, donna rouge, your name is cleared.

phew! i can keep my good name.

OMFG

http://mileendbrooklyn.com/

smoked meat!

reviews have said it's not quite ready for prime time...

Good. Then people will stay the fuck away from the best brisket I have ever eaten.

I'd assume the reviews are more talking about the kinks - they tend to run out of things all the time, e.g., and the service can be weird. Whatever. Fuck people who care more about that than awesome brisket. Fuck those fucking people - I don't want to be around them.

kinks yes, but also gross poutine?

will travel 4 brisket tbh

I don't really know what poutine is supposed to be like b/c never had it. My friend got poutine and I tried it and it was tasty. The fries were excellent. The cheese seemed a little firm I guess, but I don't know if it's supposed to be like that or what - I had always imagined it softer.

Ok well regardless I am sick of reading yelp reviews by those people in general. Fucking philistines.

Maybe this will be the thing that finally draws s1ocki down from the Great White North.

So if anyone is around the board at the moment, I would like a last minute rec of some good nighttime eats to try in the neighborhood. Places I have already done:

Lucali
Ferdinandos
Sam's
Bedouin Tent
Joya
Ghang Thai
Le Petite Crevette
Hibino
Waterfalls Cafe
Clover Club
Robin DuBois
Calexico

Probably others but that's what comes to mind.

not really in the neighborhood but a quick a/c away--saraghina in bed-stuy is frannys equal but never crowded & a much nicer, bigger space

i wouldnt mention it except that i was just there and had an a++++++++++++ cappocollo pizza

Is anyone here vegan/have recommendations? I got a slice of bbq chicken pizza @ Vinnie's on Tues (vegan garlic knots too!!) and it was some of the best pizza I've ever tasted, vegan or not.

Also, Ian, you are super nice and I am totally digging all of those records.

Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn Is Given Superfund Status

sweet

new burger joint on franklin ave opening next week

http://nostrandpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Dutch-Boy-Burger-Sign-Abeni.jpg

mmmkay, this week's movie round at Sharlene's is HOLY GRAIL fer Chrissakes! let's go.

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/03/11/liveblogging_the_barclays_center_groundbreaking.php#more

lol @ giant fake markowitz outside freddy's

http://ny.curbed.com/uploads/danielfakemarty.jpg