The Downtown Brooklyn Thread

but maybe i'm nuts!

im no expert but imo strained and drained mean the same thing in this context - greek is sometimes sheeps milk which would def taste dif but its usually cows at least the stuff we get here - heres what the wiki says http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_yoghurt

also the salting and airing def affects the thing so u cant really compare greek yogurt to yr finished dish

hmm... well, now i'm confused, cuz most of the recipes i looked at for "greek yogurt" involve boiling milk and letting it sit -- but not straining it through a cheesecloth.

in my mind, letting something sit and thicken, and then draining the juice is one thing. but letting it sit, thicken and strain through a cheesecloth seems very different.

I DUNNO JOE YOU WANNA TAKE IT OUTSIDE? :)

yahoo says you're right http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080805103253AAHE5bG

in terms of store brands, i think they sell the labne as a thicker strain, than the greek stuff.

I WILL MEET U ON S PORTLAND AND WE WILL FITE

at sahadis they hav some stuff thats like 10x as thick as yr standard fage total fair

lol @ us using wikipedia and yahoo answers to settle this - people just like us wrote those things

hehe i kno... yeah it might just be a thickness thing. i mean, it's all yogurt.

this is seriously lol, guys

also i'll do this eating-turkey-in-a-bar thing ian brought up 100 years ago, before the yogurt wars

lool :) it is slow at the office...

i could eat turkey at a bar!

this important yogurt debate is obv the culmination and pinnacle of all ilx discourse LOCK SITE

let me tell you something about this Black Iris -- they put OLIVES WITH PITS allll over their garden salad. i mean someone could choke on this! who does that??

So I want more relatively cheap eats to try in my neighborhood. Places I have been so far:

Robin Du Bois
Fatoosh
Reginella
Joya
Lantern
Waterfalls Cafe
Yemen Cafe
Some shitty thai place on Court
Ferdinando's
Teresa's
A terrible terrible vegetarian asian place on Montague
Hibino

5 GUYS

Have eaten.

that is all i know abt teh heights

heights/boerum/cobble/carroll all ok

that french place on smith st near atlantic has ok brunch, didnt blow me away

chinese food place also on smith across from boat v. mediocre

i have to say, regarding chinese -- the way to go: HOUNAN DELIGHT

i can't stress this enough

sorry it's HUNAN. and it's in the slope so it kind of doesn't count :/

chip shop is alright

Hanco's!

Ferdinando's

I really want to go here. Did you have the ground chick pea sandwich thing?

pannelle! hell yes

Em (great Thai. we get takeout all the time)
Eton (dumplings and hand-pulled noodles)
brunch at Chestnut (my overall favorite, but I wouldn't call it cheap aside from brunch)

tell me more about hanco's -- a friend of mine dismissed hanco's in favor of nicky's (in the face of reviews i had read) but i haven't bothered going to either, and there's been one "meh" vote against nicky's on this thread and one hanco's yay so YSI?

I think Hanco's and Nicky's are both good. I have yet to have a bahn mi that I didn't enjoy though. Hanco's also has a vermicelli noodle (bun) dish that is good.

Neither are as good as the Ba Xuyen or the jewelry store on Mott, though.

I don't know if there's other locations but I thought the brooklyn Nicky's on Atlantic Ave was pretty blah

their banh mi needed a ton of http://www.high-entropy.com/hunger/posted/sriracha.jpg

haven't been there in while, I usually go to Hanco's.

should i go to this place referenced in this tumblr entry tonight? http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/85865391/fuck-it-it-sounds-like-its-worth-a-trip-to-brooklyn

or should i go to franny's?

or...neither i guess, i mean i ate pizza last weekend.

ur allowed to eat pizza more than 1 wk in a row

max there are girl rules you do not know about

lol

well i mean i am saying my last dining experience was also a pizza -- perhaps i should broaden my horizons!!

the other food at frannys is real good too fyi

this is probably heresy and my horizons are no doubt more limited than most of you food-eating bastards, but my favorite ny pizza is at roberta's

but that is not in "downtown" brooklyn

~~~ announcement time ~~~

o fyi some ppl are going to 4th ave pub tonight around 8 (probably 4th ave, if packed we are going to go to pacific standard probably)

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Oh man, I always pass Sam's and want to go in -- best old school storefront. Perfect location for a murder scene followed by nonchalant exit to ironically light-hearted music.

http://www.gowanuslounge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/sams-restaurant.jpg

Better photo:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2584904922_84a49f7908.jpg?v=0

so cute!

i'm getting pizza tomorrow.

today someone started talking about making yogurt and i kept my mouth shut

i went to franny's and had a white pizza! it was good!

niice

Oh bummer, schef. I was on 4th Ave on Friday night.

ditto. I missed that post. er actually I wasn't on 4th Friday night, but walked around there yesterday ... we ended up on 5th Ave at Bogota for late lunch and it was good. fish tacos & slaw & fresh mango juice

anybody been to that new noodle place on 4th? skeptical since it's owned by the Sheep Station but it'd be nice to have around if it was good

how is bogota? i'd like to go

been wondering abt the arepas there

i been wonderin bout the empanadas

been wonderin why their delivery minimum is $20