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i can't believe someone actually used BoCoCa upthread. I had only seen it in the promotional literature for the shops.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

I finally got pupusas today even though I have been thinking about it since this thread.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

has anyone gotten a hold of the michelin guide yet?

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:42 (twenty years ago)

This is not related to restaurants, but it didn't seem worthy of its own thread.

Where's a good place to buy men's dress shoes in the Upper West side (59th and above)? I have to buy some tomorrow afternoon, and I only have an hour or so.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

Tip Top Shoes, 72nd St East of Bway

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:03 (twenty years ago)

Thank you gabbneb, sage of New York.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

Taza de Oro for awesome cheap Puerto Rican food. I forget where it is but I remember walking there from Chelsea

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

pupusas from bahia? yum yum yum!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

am i the only one who didn't know Al Yeganeh had franchised? are the branches anything like the original?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

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― jbr, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

CHEAP CHOW NOW

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

They're just now opening one right across from Tom's Restaurant. Which I suppose is great news for that real-Kramer jackass and his damnable bus tour.

Hands up if you spend time in Morningside Heights and are creeped out that Ed listed Deluxe as a great NYC restaurant! Foreign objects I have found in my food there: cellophane, hair, bacon-encased pebble. Longest I have ever waited there for a medium-rare hamburger: one and one-half hours. What everything there tastes like: everything else there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Ugh Deluxe wtf. Every time I've been there has been like an 8 hour excursion in waiting for someone to bring me a goddamned menu/drink/food etc.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I'd still like to go to Veselka, though I'm betting it's no better than Alycia's (it was John Candy's favourite so you know it's artery-clogging good) here in Winnipeg. Casuistry may be able to shoot that thought down. I'll probably never make it back to NYC again so it won't matter.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:34 (twenty years ago)

veselka's pretty good, and i've always had decent service there. lotta variety on the menu, but their ukranian food doesn't suffer for it.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Peter Luger serves somes tasty prime rib, my brethren.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

The waitress I had when I went to Veselka with geeta and Alex in SF was not the greatest, but I still like it.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

last time i was there (a month ago), the waiter got all the orders right and the food came quickly. works for me!

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

you know what's really really good at veselka? Chicken salad. That's my 5 am dinner, Chicken salad on toasted challah, with a side of potato salad. And a lentil soup. It's the thick kind, not the kind that's just broth with some lentils floating in it, more like lentil chilly.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

their challah is perfect. it has the consistency of a very dense cake.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

their salads are unusually good too -- fresh veggies, nice tangy citrusy house dressing.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

this is slightly off-topic but if anyone can recommend a good bar near Penn station, that'd be swell.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:10 (twenty years ago)

there's a bar IN penn station, but it's just a crappy sports bar.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:36 (twenty years ago)

the penn station area is a cultural dead zone (except for the korean restaurants). you have to walk down to about 25th street to start finding anything cool.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

ok thanks, maybe i'll scope out a house of soju. fingers crossed.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

there's stuff not far away in the 40s tho. hells kitchen sure ain't a dead zone.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:46 (twenty years ago)

i'll be waiting for a friend to get off the train around 6pm and then we'll have under an hour for a drink before we head downtown and i had a fantasy of the perfect, slightly seedy/sleepy nyc bar that probably exists in hell's kitchen, yeah.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

well there's always my former place of employment on 40th street just off 9th avenue across from port authority. look for the red light. don't tell 'em i sent ya.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

you mean they might serve us the wrong kind of "shot", eh? ok! thanks

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Taza de Oro for awesome cheap Puerto Rican food. I forget where it is but I remember walking there from Chelsea

9th ave between 14th & 15th. Haven't been in years but I'd bet it's still good. roast chicken w/garlic sauce. yellow rice/red beans.

there's stuff not far away in the 40s tho.

LOTS of new cheap joints walk up 9th twds 57th, follow your nose

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

i think maybe i dont really 'get' veselka

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

i love veselka. service is usually either brusque and efficient or brusque and harried, but the soups, salads, and most of the ukrainian food are all great (except for the pierogies, meh). it's not super cheap, though - usually ends up about $15/pp with tip and stuff. for really low prices, you need christine's or little poland or the one by the mcdonald's on 1st ave.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

La taza de Oro is on 8thAve bet 14/15, it's been awhile.

In the 80s I was partial to Veselka's mean green vegetable soup and AM buckwheat pancakes. After five hand-to-mouth years in the EV though I lost my taste for kielbasa and sauerkrauet 4 ever. :-0

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Las Ramblas 170 west 4th. Authentic Spanish tapas bar. First importers on select Spanish wines.

― Mmmm Good, Friday, 13 January 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

You're not alone, terry lennox. I think it's a product of location and hours.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Also, don't forget: liberal people being "open" to fairly unappetizing food. Very cultured, don't you know!

― The Dickster, Friday, 13 January 2006 13:59 (twenty years ago)

whereas "conservative people" are known for their culinary distinction

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:04 (twenty years ago)

what's unappetizing about soup and big salads and deli sandwiches and stuffed cabbage and mac/cheese and potato pancakes?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

i lived in the deli's when i was over in nyc, but then again i am an uncultured cretin when it comes to food.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

and no one who goes to Veselka is actually of Eastern European extraction

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Conservative people eat steak and chicken made the American way.

― The Dickster, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Conservative people in NYC eat foods just as fancy and pretentious, if not more so, then liberal people. Whenever my family goes to hot spots, we always get the 6:30 reservation, because everything else is booked and like, my mom has to get back to jersey you know? And the resteraunts are ALWAYS filled with total upper-middle class reagan republican gold-jewelry wearing sopranos watching types. You should've seen the Lexus SUV-driving, dangling rolex, slicked-back hair not even close to being of the cultural elite types sitting next to us at Chubo last week.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

maybe you're eating at the wrong restaurants?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh, well let's pretend I'm 100% serious, then. That's a whole different kind of "conservative" (the "snob" variant as opposed to the "simple" strain). Veselka would be beneath them!

― The Dickster, Friday, 13 January 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

Christine's is the shit

― Jimmy Mod (I myself am lethal at 100 -110dB) (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Friends took me to a crazy Chinese place a few weeks ago, I think on Mott St? Called Wo Hop, if the vodka hasn't clouded my memory too badly. Food came practically immediately and was crazy good, but I was told not to visit the restaurant of the same name UPSTAIRS, you have to go the the BASEMENT. And it's either 24-hrs or at least very late-night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

yup, that's wo hop.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

yup, that's wo hop. 24 hours of deliciousness. ny noodletown is awesome, too, but i don't think they're open all night anymore (plus it's smaller).

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone else been really let down by The Voice's picks (at least the non-Sietsema ones) lately?

I've been shocked at how bad a couple picks have been, and also some of the stuff they bother to review doesn't even SOUND very good.

Most recently I had a downright awful and overpriced meal at the Greek restaurant Delphi. The four of us literally left the restaurant frowning and clutching our stomachs.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I just tried the Pink Pony last night and it was surprisingly good.

My steak au poivre had one of the most delicious sauces I've ever tasted and great potatoes as well, and my gf's West African chicken was very good as well. Liked the atmosphere -- definitely hipster/bohemian style but very aesthetically nice. Prices were not cheap but reasonable for what we got. Very good espresso. Liked whatever brand of Cotes Du Rhone they were pouring. Service was a little unattentive but that was kind of what I expected from the look of the place, and it was the kind of place where I wanted to relax/hang out anyway. Definitely will be going back.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 12 March 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

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