The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

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.

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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.

based, as you know, on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's

This is a thread about CASABLANCA because it is utterly awesome and the best black and white film ever.

1st anniv at Sharlene's tonight, no trivia I'm guessing

went to the new hot bird bar this weekend. seems nice tho there were a lot of families for some reason.

so bummed that the new hot bird is just a bar.

yeah i was bummed too. there is apparently a korean food truck that hangs out there sometimes.

btw Sharlene's anniv party is Friday, as I found out after walking 20 mins from Slope to get there.

I didn't stay, but the movie round was the 1967 Casino Royale, which i've only sat through once.

and tomorrow's movie subject is E.T. (I think I've got the hard questions on that)

It's not in downtown Brooklyn, but there is a 24-hour Read-In at the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library this Sat. from 5 pm to Sun. at 5 pm. Come to support your public libraries!

http://savenyclibraries.org/2010/05/29/24-hour-read-in/

are there any open-air screenings of the us/england game in brooklyn tomorrow? (or anywhere else in the city?)

the few places i saw were booked up already

ah voila

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