DAN SELZER, TOTALLY NOT BUMMING, RATES NYC EAT SPOTS

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OLD DEVIL MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

fuck if i know ian it was almost 10 years ago!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

morbius, do you live on my street and do i not know it???

i usually do takeout on goulash night; call it in on teh way home from work, pick that shit up and destroy it. i am also a big fan of their mussels.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I used to live over there...back when I had no money and forsaking ramen for a night at the Cornbread Cafe was a HUGE deal. Celebrate good times. I went back there for lunch not long ago and it wasn't so great.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

i ate at the cornbread cafe about a year ago, and it wasn't that good. overpriced, not-particularly-delicious food. this was lunch, though, and i was hung over.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah, probably like all places, they fall off. When I lived there, it was like the only nice place in the area.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

the one thing Cornbread cafe had was killer BBQ wings. now sadly closed.

When we go to Steinhof I call it Cafe Baader-Meinhof and my gf always rolls her eyes.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

also, RIP for Biscuit on Flatbush.

that was a great bbq joint

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

my friend was a manager at biscuit. never heard the story as to why it closed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Biscuit was good, I went there once.

How is Pioneer in Red Hook?

I used to go to Jakes on Columbia. Not the best, but good at times and nice people and at the time it was cool to go all the way down there. Now it's yet another Brooklyn resteraunt row, which brings me to my latest fave....

Pit Stop. French bistro on Columbia. GREAT hamburgers, ratotuille, eggs, merguez etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

pit stop is nice. only had burgers + beers. weird strip there with that out of the way bookstore. I hate that mexican place Alma, everyone big ups it, but I had a horrible meal there and the crowds are a joke.

hstencil, the story I heard re: Biscuit's closing was that the owner just got tired of all the work he had to put into the place. owner is a classically trained French chef and got sick of restaraunt politics so he opened Biscuit. maybe he went back to high cuisine? it was an abrupt end, but they went out on top.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

tell me about this "out of the way bookstore."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:46 (twenty years ago)

YES! I had a terrible time at Alma. Wait. Bad service, annoying crowds, and food that wasn't so special.

The bookstore is very cool, they have readings, sell local chap books, looks like a nice place to hang out and chill, if you're in the area. I've only been in once. Bookstore fans should keep supporting the Community book store on Court St, which is great, as is Book Court further up Court.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Krupa, believe it or not they have used records. not many and nothing good though.

this is what I find on smalltownbrooklyn:

FreeBird
used book store
718 596 2087
123 Columbia St

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:59 (twenty years ago)

Ian, I thought we established that you live down the hill from me, I think. (I'm next to the new pizza/Italian place that you can't get a table in after 6pm.) Yeah, Cornbread really fell off the table the last year or two.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

i have no memory, morbsss.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

holy crap look what i just found:

http://menu.myelinate.com/map/

fuxxors need to get on top of BK tho

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Jamaican walk-in spot near Wash SQ irie

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

mirchi all you can eat lunch buffet!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

good washington sq place: kathi roll company. or karthi or whatever.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

and around the corner...Indian Bread Company. Same basic idea.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:01 (twenty years ago)

the texas cheesecake depository

― Lenny and Squiggy Present Lenny and the Squigtones (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

Doyers Vietnamese Restaurant on Doyers st. in Chinatown is fantastic.

― Chris Williams (cdwill), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Mingala over in the Est villages

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:59 (twenty years ago)

almost HAd to stop into yeah shanghai delux on bayard for soup dumplings yesterday...but held off

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Mee Noodle Shop: why did you burn down?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Dan

Nha Trang on Baxter and Canal

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah Shanghai Deluxe was the first NYC cHinese I ever tasted and let me tell you, it left a good impression. Also classic: their interior decoration (fake trees, a little stream w/ a bridge)

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:57 (twenty years ago)

DISCUS

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

the stream makes it so much better.

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

oh man...Staten Island soda fountain!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

since ILE was useless, where do you take the relatives for NYC Sunday brunch? (NO BROOKLYN pleez)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Diner in brooklyn, obv

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:24 (twenty years ago)

why not just take 'em to dizzy's?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

why not bklyn? don't they wanna see where you live?

barring that, shopsin's.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

*I* prefer not to see where I live.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

People take their parents to Diner all the time.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

i miss that place ;(

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Do y'all remember the waitress with the blond dreads at Diner?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

you WOULD like a girl with blond dreads, shasta!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

yeah, but wasn't she black?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:39 (twenty years ago)

The person I'm thinking of was from Jersey.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

And not black.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

all the girls at Diner whirl together in a carousel of cuteness

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

diner...its been so long...

just got word: a friend is doing some sort of "guest bartender" thing at the terrible luke and leroys (7th ave..by houston)....evidently 1 dollar tacos..3 dollar beers...10 pitcher of margaritas...i suppose if yr over that way, itd be worth it...i may or may not go...from 7-10

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

brunch in nyc for relatives: danal, public (very pricey otherwise but brunch is a good value), 9th street market, lucien*, les halles, cafe orlin, clinton street baking company, poeme, cafe habana.

*same menu for dinner and lunch so not a good opition if everyone wants pancakes, but great nevertheless plus if the owner is there he'll volunteer to cook you eggs and maybe give you free wine

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:50 (twenty years ago)

clinton street baking company always has a ridiculous wait for brunch.

prune on 1st street is nice brunch, but also waiting. small room though, not good for groups. great bloody marys.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

prune = deviled eggs!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Thanks. It'll only be 2 of us, so a short wait is a good thing. (plus I'm getting a head cold, so it may not happen...)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:05 (twenty years ago)

it's way cute & corny but the restaurant in the basement of the Whitney Museum up on Madison ("Sarabeth's")is very parent-friendly and the food is good if a bit dainty and afterwards you always can sight-see, check the museum, go to central park etc.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

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