New York Restaurants

hey, is anyone else going to the Vendys tomorrow?

i volunteered last year as a bartender, but i can't do it this year. my advice would be to go early.

thanks. i have to leave early anyway.

Coworker recommends I'll bagatto for dinner. Anyone been?

not in years, but it used to be really good. piadina, gnocco, and perbacco are a few other good italian places with similar price points in that area.

went to no 7 last night--starters were fantastic, gf got this broccoli tempura-type thing with a black bean sauce and i got some good pork with these amazing fried eggs... entrees werent quite as amazing but still way enjoyable--salmon with scallion pancake and vegetarian lasgna. also not too amazingly crowded. spent most of the night staring a dude who we think we went to college with.

i feel like i kind of own that place - so im glad you enjoyed it - next time try the cod its fn awz

i went to m shanghai - ate a bunch of bangin dumplings and rice cakes and bok choi n mushrooms - luv that place

bagatto was alright... i had the saltimbocca which i found a little salty, but with nice use of sage and my friend said his tagliolini di mare was excellent. as i was walking out, i noticed that 90% of tables had the same 2 dishes! almost went for a halibut special with beans and broccoli rabe, but i'd had a lot of fish this week.

joe if thats ur building thats pretty sweet what with the good restaurant/bar literally inside and also the subway entrance like right f-in there

its true i am blessed

i just passed your house on my way home the other night. i mean i pass it all the time but on this particular night, the corner was especially bouncin.

i am jealous of ice cræm's life.

is ice craem jhoshea

that is what we are led to believe....

i don't know who any of you people are ever.

If you like M Shanghai, a good night to go there is Halloween, because after eating juicy pork buns and morning glory you can dance it off at the Night of the Living Dead Disco Halloween party downstairs, then come back upstairs and eat more soup dumplings.

gf got this broccoli tempura-type thing with a black bean sauce

had this tonight, pretty good

the bestest was the kimchi dumplings that came with the hangar steak omg

That 7 place was written up in the new yorker last week and they specifically mentioned the broccoli tempura

i am having the single worst coffee of my life at a place called grounded on jane st

u_u

Genuinely bad coffee is so unforgivable, for real

on this i think we can all agree.

ate at james on saturday--crowded, i guess from the ny times & new yorker reviews last month, and we had to wait 45 minutes for a table for 2 even tho we were there at 7, and $$$...

but. i thought it was great. delicious crispy sweetbreads and loin of lamb, gf had amazing ravioli, excellent ricotta beneigts for dessert. i had a good cocktail too. i have to say it may have just been one of those nights where that kind of dinner is exactly what im in the mood for & so it makes the food even better, but i left 100% satisfied and eager to go again

i fucking love sweetbreads.

we had such a disappointing meal at the midtown branch of joe's shanghai over the weekend. never again. soup dumplings were okay, but everything else was kind of lousy.

Me & tza went to Kellog diner to see if it was actually upscale now.

It was horrible.

haha - i wondered about that. aren't they claiming that that they have a chef who worked at el bulli or suchlike?

it was just the same as before, but with better lighting. i think we got our waiter in trouble when i had to go up to the front to ask the owner/mgr or whoever for our check because we hadn't seen the waiter in 20 min.

heard from a friend of a friend that there was a 5 hour wait for Fergus Henderson at Spotted Pig yesterday. I don't know what that means. He cooks at Momofuko noodle bar tonight.

the menu looks so good. don't have the time or the $$$$, unfortunately.

oh btw i ate at delicatessen a couple weeks ago but it was so fucking bland and gross and we had the worst/dumbest waitress in the world that i tried to wipe it from my memory--if u have the same thought process as me which is like, "oh hey im in soho, maybe i should give delicatessen a shot even tho its supposed to be bad, since tis like right here and can it really be that bad," well, it is, mostly cause theyre charging obscene amounts of money for what mostly just tastes like microwave dinners

but max, they microwave it FOR YOU!

actually my salad was OK but the fried chicken was just retardedly bland and the ice cream was actively terrible

did you try the cheeseburger egg roll or whatever the hell that thing is?

lol i've never even really considered eating at kellogg. it just doesn't occur to me.

yeah i had the cheeseburger spring rolls--not BAD but theyre basically just hot pockets

which let's be real if you want basically just a hot pocket the only way to go is the real deal

http://www.thesoulspot.com/

^^^^^^^ THIS

I went there when they first opened and was like :\

I went again a few weeks ago and was like :D

charging obscene amounts of money for what mostly just tastes like microwave dinners

sounds like the Moondance

My only complaint is that their chicken/dumplings consist of potato dumplings and not big honky dough balls

except for the dumpling thing that sounds suspiciously like the Five Spot in Clinton Hill

where should i have a late lunch this afternoon? i have a few hours to kill in the east village/l.e.s. before a 4:30 movie. looking for someplace w/vegetarian options, where i can sit and read for a while...

I went to the Five Spot the other week and while I didn't eat there (tho I was tempted), the decor is pretty WTF and kept me amused for about 90 mins just looking around. More former pharmacies, please!

Better than five spot

tipsy, how about clinton street baking company? it shouldn't be too crowded later in the day on a monday.

tipsy, i would say lotus lounge on the corner of clinton and stanton, but somebody told me recently that it's closed?

lol expat

:D

how about clinton street baking company?

yeah that sounds promising, thx. down there i usually end up at angelica or pukk, which are both fine but somewhere different would be nice.

morbs and i went somewhere veggie recently but i don't remember the name :(

there's counter on 1st ave, which is slightly upscale organic veg/vegan.

Here's what some guy thought of the Fergus food at Spotted Pig.

http://nyjournal.squarespace.com/journal/2008/10/13/the-spotted-pig.html

I'm going to Bobo and Babbo this weekend. Stoked for the latter.