DAN SELZER, TOTALLY NOT BUMMING, RATES NYC EAT SPOTS

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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 (eighteen years ago) link

DISCUS

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

the stream makes it so much better.

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

oh man...Staten Island soda fountain!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Diner in brooklyn, obv

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

why not just take 'em to dizzy's?

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

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

barring that, shopsin's.

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

*I* prefer not to see where I live.

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

People take their parents to Diner all the time.

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

i miss that place ;(

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

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

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

you WOULD like a girl with blond dreads, shasta!

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

yeah, but wasn't she black?

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

The person I'm thinking of was from Jersey.

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

And not black.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

prune = deviled eggs!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

ha i've done that

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

dainty fops

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

you could always just go to balthazar..

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

best croissant ever.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

or dimsum

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

the Whitney basement outpost of Sarabeth's is pretty dark and depressing, I recall, though a remodel might have made it nicer, though it might be suitable if you find the other locations too cutesy. also, I think the food is probably better at the "real" ones.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

hstencil, whaddya like at Shopsin's?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link

dude they have like 250 things on their menu.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

hell, that's why i need help!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Brooklyn is live:
http://www.menupages.com/cuisines.asp?areaid=32

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

dialing Taro Sushi right now..

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Friday, 14 April 2006 21:59 (eighteen years ago) link

yo dance elzer, can u help me ID a disco track?

Danny Wang played it out at a gig last year ... I wish I would have asked the fellow Maroon what it was after his set finished but I forgot

Anyway, if you think of a conventional "verse/chorus" structure, the verse part (although there is no singing) is this chunky sounding Nile Rodgers style guitar -- maybe a lil tougher sound than Nile gets -- and then the "chorus" part are these heavenly wordless vocals that go "AAAAAAAAHHHHHH" "AAAHH-AAAHH-AAAHHHHH" in a descending pattern for a couple of bars (maybe also some strings in the background?). And then it slams back into that guitar part. It's totally blissful. Definitely late-70s. U know?

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link

That sounds like "Immigrant Song" by a band called "Lez Zeppelin." (pronounced "Led" as in "I led the horse to water")

― Dann Selzer (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

no. the "AHS" are ASCENDING in Immigrant Song (such as to fly to the heavens and fight and kill in honor of god, in his infinite righteousness.) these ones are descending

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 14 April 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

THIS IS A FOOD THREAD

U WILL B BANNED FOR MIMICRY

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 15 April 2006 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

it's definately the Immigrant Song, played backwords. A big hit that way at the Cosmic disco.

no seriously, doesn't ring a bell.

songs Danny Wang turned me on to:

The Flirts-Passion, 9 minute italo mix
Electric Mind-Can We Go?
Voyage-I Love You Dancer
Funkapolitan-As Time Goes By (he gave me the LP to thank him for typesetting some labels and because I gave him David Gamson's Sugar Sugar 12")

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 15 April 2006 01:35 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

there is a very nice man with a cart near the corner of delancey and norfolk selling the following: curry squid, curry fish balls, pork skin & radish, rice noodle w/ shrimp, and fried rice. nothing is more that $1.50. i just had the rice noodle w/ shrimp - fat noodles rolled up tight with scallions and tiny shrimp and covered with sriracha and brown sauce. so delicious, even if the refined carbs are going to make me puff out like a chubby balloon.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i could still eat shrimp :(

― electro-acoustic lycanthrope (orion), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Lauren,

I'm amazed at your devotion to curry squid!

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i wish i was on norfolk and delancy

― bb (bbrz), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i will be there tomorrow.

will he?

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

he's there every day but sunday, usually.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

I had the mixed grill via takeout at Kinara last night ... so nice, esp the 4 different sauces, but an hour ago, mega-burning ass.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 June 2006 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Tamarind's prix-fixe 3 course lunch was pretty good (I didn't pay). It was either that or Shake Shack (there was no line and it was Friday WTF?)

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

sadly, the health dept seems to have shut down the chinese man's cart operation on delancey. fie!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

coming soon....

DAN SELZER RATES QUEENS EAT SPOTS

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 16 June 2006 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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