The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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

so the ft greene beer garden kind of sucks huh

that schwarze kolner place? is there actually a garden in there? i've never been in.

pfft i reported on the suckiness of that place like last summer - beer gardens in general - i mean it sounds fun beer + garden - yet

yeah 1 it is not a garden, there are no plants

2 it is really ugly inside despite being a good space, terrible furniture choices and gross tile on the floor

3 and most importantly the beer selection is totally lame, just like boring ass german beers i can buy from the beer distributor, spaten & weihenstephaner and their ilk

we must find places to drink outside this spring!

lets break into the atlantic yards construction site with a six pack

can we smash our bottles and gaze off into the distance bitterly and pretend to be frustrated but resigned oldtimer locals?

This summer, if I'm gonna be indoors, I plan to go to Woodwork quite a bit for the World Cup. Mostly cos it's down the road on Vanderbilt Ave. If other ilxors are keen, we should arrange meetups...

Sharlene's trivia film this week is Pulp Fiction!

Can't do it tomorrow, but am always trying to come up with an appropriate team name.

can't do it tonight either -- bio father and racist step-mother are in town. thought doctors didn't approve of tarantino anyway . . .

This doctor does, of his first three. I'm sure the cultists know it better than me anyway. (sorry, gd luck w/ stepmom)

So I tried Prime Meats last night - I generally liked it although something rubbed me the wrong way about its slightly conservative-as-hip vibe. My friend said when she first walked in she felt like she was in Greenwich, Conn.

Great beers on tap and food was good. Had Saurbraten - very good meat but the sauce and kraut was a little too sweet.

The place is also really loud for a Brooklyn restaurant.

where can i get a good italian sub up in this bitch

recommend caputo's in carroll gardens

walking thru the old' hood this week i noticed a spot called "Brooklyn Sub"--think this was around classon/washington? a city sub knock-off?

yeah brooklyn sub is not great ime. city sub is pretty good, i walked all the way over there yesterday, but its not open on sundays. i got a porchetta sandwich from bklyn larder which is really fuckin good but like eight bucks. o the miseries of a gentrifyer

Casablanca is the trivia movie @ Sharlene's tomw! That's from the pre-Goonies era.

city sub keeps the worst hours those bastards, what like cops dont need to eat @ nite, outrageous

ha I've gotten burned like 5 times walking over there on a Sunday. thwarted.

Hm. Are you thinking about going, Morbius?

hard to say. Mon & Tue may be heavy work days. can we get 4 players?

Might could.

Let's say no unless there's a wave of enthusiasm

Yeah I'm backing down. Too bad though. Not that I know everything about Casablanca, but I'm old enough to fake it.

the Germans wore brown, you wore blue

what waters? we're in the middle of the desert.

i was misinformed.