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The Voice's Robert Sietsema is usually OTM for cheap ethnic stuff.

But one he hasn't found yet: Radjhani (sp?) in Jackson Heights, Queens. AMAZING Indian food very cheap.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

My Jackson Heights pick is Ashoka.

― Cripps Pink (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

who needs cheap ethnic stuff when you can get $28 edamame at megu.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Aaron, it is on Hicks St, just north of Atlantic Ave

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I've recently decided I'm completely finished with anything over $10 an entree in New York that's not fucking ASTOUNDING. I'm not just being one of those snobbish anti-snobs, I've just already given too many hours of my labor to pay for mediocre food with fancy sounding ingredients.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

i foresee a lot of beans, rice, felafel, noodles, and general tso's chicken in your future.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:18 (nineteen years ago) link

b&h dairy restaurant on 2nd avenue between 7th and st. marks is one of the best under $10 places.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

no more Sam's Felafel Stand. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't believe someone actually used BoCoCa upthread. I had only seen it in the promotional literature for the shops.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I finally got pupusas today even though I have been thinking about it since this thread.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link

has anyone gotten a hold of the michelin guide yet?

― america's next top ramen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 03:42 (eighteen years ago) link

This is not related to restaurants, but it didn't seem worthy of its own thread.

Where's a good place to buy men's dress shoes in the Upper West side (59th and above)? I have to buy some tomorrow afternoon, and I only have an hour or so.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Tip Top Shoes, 72nd St East of Bway

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you gabbneb, sage of New York.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Taza de Oro for awesome cheap Puerto Rican food. I forget where it is but I remember walking there from Chelsea

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link

pupusas from bahia? yum yum yum!

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

am i the only one who didn't know Al Yeganeh had franchised? are the branches anything like the original?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Al Yeganeh, founder of the Soup Kitchen International restaurant, located in New York City, has been producing premium, gourmet soups for loyal devotees since 1984. Locals and tourists alike have waited for hours for a taste of his heralded lobster bisque. His persona, as well as his soup, abruptly went international with the 1995 airing of the famous "soup" episode of "Seinfeld," which featured a character based on Mr. Yeganeh.

Now you can enjoy the world's best soups... Introducing The Original SoupMan™

NAZI

just say it

NAZI

― jbr, Thursday, 12 January 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

CHEAP CHOW NOW

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

They're just now opening one right across from Tom's Restaurant. Which I suppose is great news for that real-Kramer jackass and his damnable bus tour.

Hands up if you spend time in Morningside Heights and are creeped out that Ed listed Deluxe as a great NYC restaurant! Foreign objects I have found in my food there: cellophane, hair, bacon-encased pebble. Longest I have ever waited there for a medium-rare hamburger: one and one-half hours. What everything there tastes like: everything else there.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Ugh Deluxe wtf. Every time I've been there has been like an 8 hour excursion in waiting for someone to bring me a goddamned menu/drink/food etc.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd still like to go to Veselka, though I'm betting it's no better than Alycia's (it was John Candy's favourite so you know it's artery-clogging good) here in Winnipeg. Casuistry may be able to shoot that thought down. I'll probably never make it back to NYC again so it won't matter.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

veselka's pretty good, and i've always had decent service there. lotta variety on the menu, but their ukranian food doesn't suffer for it.

― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Luger serves somes tasty prime rib, my brethren.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

The waitress I had when I went to Veselka with geeta and Alex in SF was not the greatest, but I still like it.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

last time i was there (a month ago), the waiter got all the orders right and the food came quickly. works for me!

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

you know what's really really good at veselka? Chicken salad. That's my 5 am dinner, Chicken salad on toasted challah, with a side of potato salad. And a lentil soup. It's the thick kind, not the kind that's just broth with some lentils floating in it, more like lentil chilly.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

their challah is perfect. it has the consistency of a very dense cake.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

their salads are unusually good too -- fresh veggies, nice tangy citrusy house dressing.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link

this is slightly off-topic but if anyone can recommend a good bar near Penn station, that'd be swell.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a bar IN penn station, but it's just a crappy sports bar.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:36 (eighteen years ago) link

the penn station area is a cultural dead zone (except for the korean restaurants). you have to walk down to about 25th street to start finding anything cool.

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ok thanks, maybe i'll scope out a house of soju. fingers crossed.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

there's stuff not far away in the 40s tho. hells kitchen sure ain't a dead zone.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll be waiting for a friend to get off the train around 6pm and then we'll have under an hour for a drink before we head downtown and i had a fantasy of the perfect, slightly seedy/sleepy nyc bar that probably exists in hell's kitchen, yeah.

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

well there's always my former place of employment on 40th street just off 9th avenue across from port authority. look for the red light. don't tell 'em i sent ya.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

you mean they might serve us the wrong kind of "shot", eh? ok! thanks

― Thea (Thea), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Taza de Oro for awesome cheap Puerto Rican food. I forget where it is but I remember walking there from Chelsea

9th ave between 14th & 15th. Haven't been in years but I'd bet it's still good. roast chicken w/garlic sauce. yellow rice/red beans.

there's stuff not far away in the 40s tho.

LOTS of new cheap joints walk up 9th twds 57th, follow your nose

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 January 2006 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i think maybe i dont really 'get' veselka

― terry lennox. (gareth), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i love veselka. service is usually either brusque and efficient or brusque and harried, but the soups, salads, and most of the ukrainian food are all great (except for the pierogies, meh). it's not super cheap, though - usually ends up about $15/pp with tip and stuff. for really low prices, you need christine's or little poland or the one by the mcdonald's on 1st ave.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

La taza de Oro is on 8thAve bet 14/15, it's been awhile.

In the 80s I was partial to Veselka's mean green vegetable soup and AM buckwheat pancakes. After five hand-to-mouth years in the EV though I lost my taste for kielbasa and sauerkrauet 4 ever. :-0

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Las Ramblas 170 west 4th. Authentic Spanish tapas bar. First importers on select Spanish wines.

― Mmmm Good, Friday, 13 January 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not alone, terry lennox. I think it's a product of location and hours.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, don't forget: liberal people being "open" to fairly unappetizing food. Very cultured, don't you know!

― The Dickster, Friday, 13 January 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

whereas "conservative people" are known for their culinary distinction

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link

what's unappetizing about soup and big salads and deli sandwiches and stuffed cabbage and mac/cheese and potato pancakes?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i lived in the deli's when i was over in nyc, but then again i am an uncultured cretin when it comes to food.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

and no one who goes to Veselka is actually of Eastern European extraction

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 13 January 2006 14:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Conservative people eat steak and chicken made the American way.

― The Dickster, Friday, 13 January 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Conservative people in NYC eat foods just as fancy and pretentious, if not more so, then liberal people. Whenever my family goes to hot spots, we always get the 6:30 reservation, because everything else is booked and like, my mom has to get back to jersey you know? And the resteraunts are ALWAYS filled with total upper-middle class reagan republican gold-jewelry wearing sopranos watching types. You should've seen the Lexus SUV-driving, dangling rolex, slicked-back hair not even close to being of the cultural elite types sitting next to us at Chubo last week.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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