i go to hotel delmano all the time case a friend of mine works there so you know free drinks
― joseph sixpack (ice crӕm)
i kicked it here tonight, nice joint. yeah, overpriced & gentrified but i'm old and can't handle the younger w'burg scene. excellent cocktails fwiw.
― buzza, Saturday, 27 December 2008 05:56 (fifteen years ago) link
where should I have lunch tomorrow on LSE/Soho, Vic and I are having our Aidan-free day , we have dinner sorted (Irving Mill) and are booked for touristy goodness up the rockefeller at 4 for the sunrise photo opps, but I'm stuck for eating (other than sampling some lab di gelato wares). Any not too pricey, relaxed ideas?
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
omfg cram you did not
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
ha
― ㋡ (ice cr?m), Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
it's called "weather up" and they have $11 cocktails apparently.
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:43 (9 months ago)
this place is kind of full of shit
― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
they have these beautiful little cocktail glasses for some of the $11+ drinks, that can hold a shot
― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:47 (fifteen years ago) link
one shot.
Lol surmo no offense but if you're paying $11 for a cocktail you're basically asking to get ripped off btw I've been to little branch etc more than once he point being if you're looking for bang for your buck go to applebees and get a long island ice tea
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
you're right, i know you're right. it's just the place has AIRS man yknow?
omg i did go to that applebees recently, i been wanting to go for like years.
― Surmounter, Sunday, 4 January 2009 01:52 (fifteen years ago) link
weather up is one of the worst bars in a neigborhood with no shortage of crappy bars.
― ian, Sunday, 4 January 2009 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
i went there once
― ❤¯\㋡/¯❤ (ice cr?m), Sunday, 4 January 2009 05:01 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah same. it was ok. not really hot to go back
― dmr, Sunday, 4 January 2009 06:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont really want to get pulled into defending the place since i have no real allegiance for it but it didnt seem like such a terrible place to me, it just has a 'steez' and i guess if u dislike the 'steez' youd probably hate it but... why would you go to such a bar in the first place.
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Sunday, 4 January 2009 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
'ugh i hate that bar cattyshack, too many lesbians'
― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Sunday, 4 January 2009 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
via eater
2) Prospect Heights: It's so nice when proprietors do the work for us: "I wanted to "tip" you guys off on a new place in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Its called Cornelius and is the collaboration of the folks from Franklin Park, Soda and Le Gamin. The focus is many, many, many whiskeys, bourbons and vodkas and I'm serving up some American comfort small plates. We are opening Monday, January 12th. Please come check it out. Cornelius is at 565 Vanderbilt Ave. at Pacific St." Nice presentation and approach for Brooklyn, go early and brace for crowds. [POST-PLYWOOD]
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
former Noo Na space (guess that place closed)
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
American comfort small plates
lol just say tater tots
― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ snob
― ian, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Shopsin's lives up to the hype, y'all.
― now we are using our shovels to bury our dead (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
I was more focused on the many, many, many bourbons
― dmr, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I ate at Bellavitea last week and kinda wondered how Tipsy wound up liking it.
Re: expensive cocktails I'm tempted to say it's something you're best off going all in on -- e.g., if you want to have a fancy-cocktail night, go to one of the first-wave places with $20 drinks and enjoy them and don't worry about it,* because I get the feeling any place jumping on the trend and serving tiny $10 fancy cocktails is going to be a bust, in addition to making you stand at the bar watching drinks get mixed exactly twice as often.
(* If this is really difficult, maybe the trick is to have beans for dinner at home and just figure the hundred you dropped on fancy interesting drinks everyone loved and discussed might even cost slightly less than what you'd spend on a nice restaurant and five regular-priced drinks.)
― nabisco, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 23:02 (fifteen years ago) link
okay I don't think how one feels about Weather Up has anything to do with liking expensive cocktails or not. I am one of the primo cocktail snobs on ILX and I love the hell out of snooty cocktail bars but I called that place out for being shit on this thread months ago.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 8 January 2009 02:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Best restaurant in NY: Caravan of Dreams
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 January 2009 02:57 (fifteen years ago) link
that place isn't even the best vegan restaurant in NY, nevermind restaurant as a whole
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:06 (fifteen years ago) link
What do you like more?
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
What [vegan joint] do you like more, I mean.
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i sense a happy hour in our future.
― this display name has the potential to be epically sexy (tehresa), Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:29 (fifteen years ago) link
It's not a category I've explored much but pure food and drink is pretty impressive.
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:33 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry, I mean pure food and wine
― Tina Fey's narrative bonsai (I DIED), Thursday, 8 January 2009 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
ok so that cornelius place I mentioned is bogus
char no. 4 is cool though. beef hot links rocked
― dmr, Sunday, 1 February 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Had brunch with wife's fam at Ocean Grill. Is this place supposed to be good? SUCKED.
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Not only was food bad and overpriced, but tables were super cramped in so that I could barely breathe, waiter couldn't get around the table and had to hand stuff to us, and at the end of the meal they gave us customer-satisfaction cards! Which I actually wanted to fill out and complain except I was more insulted by the idea of having to fill one out in a proper restaurant at all.
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
haha ouch
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i definitely woulda filled on out tho
ilx qnz brigade: arepas cafe in astoria - yes/no?
― charles bronson reilly (donna rouge), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
it's questionable that ocean grill is a "proper restaurant," it's owned by b.r. guest.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, get a blog
― double bird strike (gabbneb), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
get a blow job
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
oh shi
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yow
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
srsly tho all their restaurants hand out comment cards, it is totally weird to do so when you're trying to kind of elevate your brand to high mid-end to throw in comment cards.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link
if i get one i will def write get a blog/blowjob on it
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
get a blagojevich, am i right
― max, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
THIS MY BLØWJOB[Started by ice cr?m in December 2008, last updated Yesterday by ice cr?m] 30 new answers
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:31 (fifteen years ago) link
man i havent posted to the bløgjob today - anyone have any ideas
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the couple times i've been in one of their restaurants, i've really been tempted to write filthy cracks on these comment cards, i gotta be honest. literally the only thing stopping me is pity for the waiter.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
ice cr?mhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/3255148899/
maybe you could post 25 things about yourself
― max, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
thats like the original blogg xp
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, the reina, which is basically chicken salad with avocado was great. Not as many veggie-friendly options as Caracas, who's new location in Williamsburg is larger then the nightmare that is the one in the east village.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link