I think home fries are better than potatoes cut up as far as this xpost to b_l
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
The blueberry pancakes at Clinton Street Baking Company are really good.
― felicity, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Peppers in home fries are gross. Home fries: day-old cooked potatoes, onions, fried in butter/olive oil mix with shitloads of pepper. A dusting of paprika is fine to give veggies a smokey taste but in other circs the paprika ought to come via the tiny pieces of chorizo you fry off with the onions. Simply put, do not embellish HF recipe until you can make it with only onions, pepper and the cooking fat of your choice.
Lauren is also correct in that HF should be HOT.
― suzy, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
My best experience with day-old potato usage is (attn Londoners) the chips from the Fryer's Delight, which are chunky and fried in beef tallow.
― suzy, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I want brunch. Is the Greenpoint ramen open yet?
― Virginia Plain, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:35 (sixteen years ago) link
that place is never opening, as far as i can tell.
― lauren, Thursday, 13 March 2008 01:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, well I'm working this Sat. but could do a Sun. ramen/brunch if it goes done.
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 13 March 2008 01:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Alan Richman slams Les Halles after receiving Douchebag Award from Anthony Bourdain at Golden Clogs.
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 02:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, Astroland opens this Sun.--maybe a C.I. brunch?
― Virginia Plain, Thursday, 13 March 2008 03:15 (sixteen years ago) link
oh, re: ramen - someone on c.hound posted that ippudo should be open next week (person has apparently received the friends & family invite).
― lauren, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
they have help wanted signs in japanese as well.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
ippudo's specialty is tonkotsu, right?
― mizzell, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
To be really technical, their specialty is "hakata" ramen which usually features a tonkotsu broth.
― Steve Shasta, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know what any of that is but WANT.
― tehresa, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
the richman/bourdain beef is fucking fantastic, and makes me like AB even more
― remy bean, Thursday, 13 March 2008 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I think les halles kinda sucks, but don't see what responsibility Bourdain has for the place these days.
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I am saving up my quarters to play racecar games at C.I. this Summer
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 March 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm reading a bourdain book (a cook's tour) and it is making me hungry all the time. though the guy is totally corny.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 13 March 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
bourdain is not a very good writer. even if his anecdotes themselves are sometimes illuminating, and definitely hunger-inspiring.
― ian, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to see his show.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 13 March 2008 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link
the one episode i saw was so awesome that i priced airfare to hong kong the next day, but it kinda depends on your acceptance of him as some kind of bad-ass rebel rock star persona. he also recreated sequences from kung fu movies
― mizzell, Thursday, 13 March 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
his show is good TV, last season especially was great, but it's still good. I mostly find him annoying but then he says something really OTM, or suprisingly poetic, or something really funny or crazy happens, or you just see some awesome food in an awesome locale, and that's enough to make me watch.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 March 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
the only part I don't like is his once per episode "my producers made me do this / I'm too good for TV" schtick
when he's sincere it's usually really good
― dmr, Friday, 14 March 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
hungover and craving ramen, i tried to go to setagaya yesterday afternoon but got there just as they stopped the afternoon service. heartbreaking. went to m0m0fuku noodle bar instead and had the pork neck ramen. eh. not great, not bad. the noodles are good, but i didn't care much for the broth. a liberal dose of sriracha helped out. the pork was tasty, but there was so much of it that it was kind of overwhelming - more like meat with noodles instead of the other way around. it's certainly a generous portion, as i ate until i was stuffed and still had about a third of the bowl left over. the other menu items sounded delicious, but sadly the ramen was all that my budget could accommodate. 3 of the dishes i had my eye on would have set me back about $45.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah the ramen is really the least interesting thing on the menu at m0m0fuku - the best thing I've had there was a big plate of schezuan crayfish.
― I DIED, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i really wanted rice cakes with oxtail ragu.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
also the grilled beef tongue, and the sweetbreads. /glutton
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Lauren, I ordered in brunch from Taco 5antana last weekend, just to relive the deliciousness. Next stop: their enchiladas. I can hardly wait!
― Laurel, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:01 (sixteen years ago) link
SZECHUAN CRAYFISH OMG WANT. Even though I don't know exactly what it is. Describe this?
― suzy, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
what do people think about Otto? went for the second time Saturday. the pizza is just .... not that good. the crust is like a hard cracker. it's not terrible (the anchovies I had to start were great) but for the amount of hassle you have to go through to eat there it ain't worth it.
― dmr, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:10 (sixteen years ago) link
have not tried otto, but that seems to be the conventional wisdom. they're seemingly quite child-friendly, which is a plus for people who want to go out somewhere interesting/nice-ish with the kids.
haha, laurel - i had huevos rancheros there on saturday. so good. my friend wanted to go to egg, but fuck an hour wait for eggs and grits. over to t.s. we went.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
that seems to be the conventional wisdom - by that i meant that the pizza is actually not their strong suit.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
i can't decide if i am craving ramen or pho today. i have a sore throat so i think that super-salty ramen broth might destroy me. does anyone have a favorite pho place (that isn't in jackson heights)?
― bell_labs, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i think the crunchy pizza crust @ otto works on the no-tomato sauce pizzas like my favorite clam pie. but it's kind of weird on the pepperoni, say, though their house-made meat on that one is wild, really spicy. it is a good place to take kids and easier to get reservations at than babbo. the wines and side-dishes are great.
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
but then my tastes in restaurants are "middlebrow" compared to serious foodies, so take it w/a grain o salt.
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
you always seem pretty otm to me.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
ah thanks laurel the feeling is mutual. it's just lately when i read restaurant reviews I don't feel so adventurous.
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― gabbneb, Monday, 24 March 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
laureN sorry i am pathologically typo-prone
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
linds, stop in chinatown for pho. several vietnamese places - pho bang is ok and cheap, but can anyone recommend something a lil better?
― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
brunch at gen this weekend:
-sake mimosa -loos leaf "special" green tea
-crab curry soup
-salmon/tuna/mackeral chirashi -mini eel & onion fritatta -renkon hasami age
-spring roll with sponge cake, mango, peach & red bean in mango puree.
-green tea ice cream
― ian, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
soooooooo good.
ugh, i really don't like pho bang. i like nam son and pho tu do a lot, although i'm not sure how the pho is. cong ly always gets high marks for that, but i've never tried.
great $5 lunch: a package of "finger maki" (basically thinner, elongated korean sushi) and a small container of octopus salad from m2m on 3rd avenue & 10th st.
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
i had brunch at bogota bistro in park slope yesterday. guava mimosa! i loved it, and i am usually a bloody mary girl. my friend's friend is an owner and brought us bunuelos with guava butter. yum. i had mexican breakfast (eggs scrambled w/ jalapenos and chorizo and some other stuff, rice, beans, salad, tortillas), which was OK, but my friend's 'carribean breakfast' was yum - eggs with scallions and some other stuff, arepas, tostones, cabbage, potato cakes. so much food, we couldn't finish.
― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
went to that downstairs place on Doyers last month, used to be called Vietnam? it's still tasty and super-cheap. had curry squid and a spicy beef salad but no pho (see what I mean about not being adventurous.)
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
ian totally has a crush on the sushi gen waitress. it is cute.
― bell_labs, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
last weekend tried an italian spot in the village called Maremma. the chef is a protege of Mario Batali and the menu showed it, homemade testa (headcheese) and two pork-ragu pastas. i was tempted by a pasta special of spaghetti w/beef ragu made from cattle 'the chef raises on his upstate farm it's leaner and sweeter' but I planned to make a ham on sunday so I went with the old standby of chicken cooked under a brick w/garlicky greens and a great starter of sea bass w/veg whipped into a spread-- like an ital version of whitefish salad!
― m coleman, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
like an ital version of whitefish salad
do you mean it was italian or rastafarian?
― bell_labs, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
ooooh me <3 whitefish salad. i am still trying to remember the name/exact location of a really excellent italian place i stumbled upon in the east village ~2.5 years ago... it's killing me because it was really good but i can't remember which avenue it was on. it was somewhere btw houston and 14th, probably closer to houston, but there are so many italian restaurants around there...
― tehresa, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
i get my hair cut down the block from maremma, and have been wanting to try it for a while. it sounds great.
t, do you remember any details about the place?
― lauren, Monday, 24 March 2008 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link