DAN SELZER, TOTALLY NOT BUMMING, RATES NYC EAT SPOTS

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if you don't object to paying $15 or $16 for an individual-sized pizza OTTO on 8th st & 5th Ave is really quite good, the most approachable of mario batali's hyped restaurant empire. nice italian wines too. it's pricey for pizza and definitely not old-school style -- grilled not ovened -- but the clam pie is awes.

― m coleman, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ya, I like Otto. It's also fun to make a meal out of antipasti there. Great gelato too.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Pies 'n' Thighs is good

― Hurting 2, Sunday, 18 March 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

pies 'n' thighs is GREAT.

― lauren, Monday, 19 March 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I had a chicken box with collard greens and a lemonade. YUM

It felt weird eating it at the Rockstar Bar though.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

they were serving brunch on slightly smaller oval plates yesterday, which means merely large portions instead of ridiculous. i wonder if this is a permanent change.

― lauren, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

where do I eat around Columbia U tonight? Indian or a good burger esp.

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Vege dumplings at Ollie's

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I would but I had chow fun last night

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

can i request something cheap around lincoln center, please?

― bell_labs, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha same rec from me: Ollies

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

where do I eat around Columbia U tonight? Indian or a good burger esp.

burgers at the Heights, bway/111-112 or Abbey Pub, 105th off bway (east). I don't remember good indian, though there was a passable one around 107 and bway (west side).

I think the Columbia Ollie's is better than the lincoln center one?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

i see the mouse droppings controversy has yet to be addressed here

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

which controversy? doh is shutting places down left and right.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

well, the LinCtr one was awful! (the one time I ate there)

thx. (also, a falafel place called Amir's?)

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

can i request something cheap around lincoln center, please?

you're not alone in that request. there's cafe mozart on 70th east of bway, though it's nothing special. for takeout, there's the dean and deluca on 67th (?) west of bway or gray's papaya at bway and 72nd.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

which controversy?

di fara's

a falafel place called Amir's?

don't think i ever went there and don't remember ever hearing a recommendation. people say good things about the korean place next door (?).

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that's a tough one. cafe at whole foods in time-warner center, maybe.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

i've been similarly unimpressed with linc ctr ollie's but columbia ollie's' veg dumplings are very good and their chicken and broccoli is habit-forming

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

cafe at whole foods in time-warner center, maybe

aren't the whole foods cafes really expensive? there's bouchon bakery there too but that's probably even moreso.

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

if you're going to the met (and if you're going to barbiere, i hate you), there's food inside, of course

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

you mean controversy as ch0wh0und removing posts stating the difara's was closed? that was totally, utterly stupid. removing posts containing possibly damaging hearsay is one thing, not allowing people to say that the doh has closed a popular eatery is quite another. generally i like c-hound, but when they screw up they tend to do it a big way. all they did was add more fuel to eater's bizarre grudge against them.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

salad bar at wf is $7.99/lb and the sandwiches tend to be better than deli fare and about the same price. not bargain basement , but cheaper than any other sit down option save fast food in that area.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

also, i think you can get a hot plate (roast chicken, lasagne, ribs, etc) w/ two sides for $7.99.

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm...someone said josie's, i've only been to the burger place on the east side. and i've only been to the ollie's in times square, at age 11 after seeing 'miss saigon' with my mom.

― bell_labs, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

where to go for brunch plz? preferably someplace with a liquor license but that's not a deal breaker.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i only know from going WANT at whole foods' indian bar and then getting taken for near $20 after waiting on their ridiculous line

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

area?

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

i've never gotten pies'n'thighs brunch but i'm thinking about it this weekend! does rockstar bar have bloody marys?

― bell_labs, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

― lauren, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

if you mean the contraversy about doh closing difaras in general and not just chowhound's response....whatever, Di Fara's is dirty as hell, always has been...and I've eaten in worse. Getting swept up in a doh sweep where tons of places are getting notices isn't too scary. If you've looked at the doh ratings online, you wouldn't eat out at all.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

brunch - prune, blue ribbon bakery, home, clinton st baking co (no drinks?)

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

josie's isn't a terrible choice but it's not super-cheap and i don't think much of the food there

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

besides...mouse droppings are an italian specialty no? Now thats-a spicy meatball! fuggedaboudit!

― dan selzer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that was the response i was hoping for

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

ah crap, i was seriously going to go to di fara's next week. can someone post thwn theyre back up?

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

di fara's to reopen saturday? - http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2007/03/di_fara.php

― gabbneb, Thursday, 22 March 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

can i request something cheap around lincoln center, please?

U HAVE ENTERED THE TWILIGHT ZONE OF EAT try fairway cafe above the grocery store bway @75

― m coleman, Friday, 23 March 2007 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's an OK diner somewhere around... 68th and Amsterdam, I wanna say?

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

ppl say fairway cafe is good but isn't it sorta depressing up there?

― gabbneb, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

midtown far ya

― sexyDancer, Friday, 23 March 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I don't ever remember spending over $10 for a pretty good amount of Whole Foods Indian, and it's good. Maybe I'm just nice like that with the portion control. In any case, they should really put a scale by the bar. Do they have one?

Also, there's something weird about standing in the grocery line with your food - that always annoys me.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Just hit Spicy and Tasty. You know what? It was spicy and tasty. Best cold sesame noodles ever. Wasn't sure what to get because even the "vegetable" options have ingredients like "pork blood". Will have to go back. Flushing is CRAZY. Right next to a malaysian place that's supposed be great.

http://soundbites.typepad.com/soundbites/2006/11/so_spicy_so_tas.html
http://events.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/dining/reviews/29rest.html
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/spicy-and-tasty/

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

damn...it was a year ago that a spicey and tastey trip was suggested but never organized...wtf...getting on that immediatly...i had some spicey duck thing there i.5 yrs ago...andi think i still suffere from the burn sometimes.

― bb, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

flushing is my new favorite place.

― lauren, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

If the name of the place isn’t a tip-off, then the bright-red, oversize chili pepper positioned atop a glass pedestal inside the vestibule at Spicy & Tasty is. When the owners closed the original Roosevelt Avenue basement-level space, located in a somewhat seedy mini-mall, fans of the iconic pepper and its multiple Sichuan applications mourned.

LOL, went to to the original in '00 or '01. so good, in such a sketchy food court. now i want to go to the new one.

― ▒█▄█ ▄▄ ▒█▄█, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, in case you don't see it, I just emailed you through the ILX thingy.

― Laurel, Monday, 2 April 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

kids...

can we talk about eating in south bk? i have the parents in town and need to sort a sat night dinner...i know theres lots of talk of smith street and all that..whats worth checking into?

― bb, Thursday, 5 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

on the high-end, Saul is supposed to be good but I've never had dinner there. The Grocery is the highest rated and most manhattan-esque. Chestnut however, is very classy and very delicious and I highly recommend it. Lower down the $$$ pole, Cafe Cubana or whatever the Cuban place is called, is pretty good, but for better bets, go around the corner on Atlantic Avenue...Bachus is one of brooklyns better french bistro type places, wed. night is 2 for 1 entrees, and next door is Stan's Place, really pretty good and pretty fun "new orleans" food, including crazy tasty beignets. It's also a great brunch spot.

Even cheaper/more casual is Zaytoons on smith st., pretty classic and dependable middle-eastern food, probably better then the more hardcore places on atlantic.

I'd say go for Chestnut, it's in the heart of Smith St. and is really good. You probably should get a reservation.

I went back to Spicy and Tasty last night and it totally delivered. I had a diced chicken with peanuts in spicy sauce and it was basically the tastiest kung-pao chicken in the world. We also had some sort of sweet rice balls in hot wine desert thing that almost made me throw up.

― dan selzer, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

shit, forgot i had even asked this this am...thnx, dan!

anybody else got a feel? ...my dad is a cook, but hes not so into manhattanany, "fancy" sort of places...we could also easily do sunnyside, might be more fun for everyone...

― bb, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

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