New York Restaurants

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(mizzell -- dino, that is. have you been yet? i got the spaghetti w/ lemon and parmesan, and a salad, and all of it was quite simply perfect - o and some delicious bitter herbs crostini)

also ft greene's Kaz A Nou is wonderful

i went and i got that lemon parmesan dish. simple, delicious, executed very well. also got a fennel salad, i think. salad was actually too big. good portions for the price.

omg ! that's the same exact dinner i got!

might try A Bistro tonight http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/abistro/

Loved it. Got the "fried chicken". Which isn't battered and fried chicken, totally different. Been twice. Tiny place but really awesome.

very cool. is it air conditioned? very pricey?

also ft greene's Kaz A Nou is wonderful

really been wanting to go there

also it's in prospect heights and I won't let ft greene steal the glory

oh right, right. sorry :)

SORRY!

get the jerk chicken breast. you will be happy.

that and the duck leg confit with mango jerk sauce look awesome

o and dmr i tried James. really nice!

don't remember if A Bistro is a/c, but it's probably pricey. It's a fancy little reservation type place, I think.

But worth it, our meals were pretty great!

you go to the crepe place yet dan?

No, we haven't. Any good?

Saw Siestama wrote about the Brazillian/Tibetan fusion place around the corner but it still looks empty. We went once and it was really good, but a bit pricey for the hood.

Went back to Richmond Hill last night to explore trinidadian food, got some doubles then went looking for another place but everything was closing by 8:30/9 for some reason.

I had a really good meal at ofrenda last week, like my first taste of 'real real' mexican food

No, we haven't. Any good?

yeah! I mean they're a bit expensive for the neighborhood, but the woman who makes them def knows what she's doing. very nice people too.

haha I didn't see that you wrote 'pricey for the hood' before I wrote that - so easy to get that mindset here

also been meaning to try that new indian place on skillman

gotten bad reviews on Chowhound. People prefer Curry Point, which is a more homey-pakistani/bangladeshi place down on Greenpoint Ave below Queens blvd. The kind of place like there used to be hundreds of in Jackson Heights, but not so much here.

never been to that one, but we pretty rarely go south of queens blvd for a meal. I know you're not a fan, but we are usually pretty content w/ masala (helps that it's 20 seconds away).

i ate at great n.y. noodletown this weekend for the first time and it was ________so good___________

what's good and not-pricey for dinner around 9th Ave in 40s or 50s these days?

Wondee Siam (#1, on the east side of 9th -- there's a #2 across the street). Order from the 'secret menu' that's on the table.

thx

Wondee Siam is good. I like Island Burgers & Shakes at 51st and 9th. There's also a pretty good little Cuban place around there but I can't remember the name.

o and dmr i tried James. really nice!

― janice (surm), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 11:58 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

missed this, yeah I like that place! nice to just sit at the bar and get small plates.

still haven't been to Kaz a Nou yet.

not feeling that Cubana Cafe on Flatbush. Cuban sandwich sucked

glad we have Pequena on Vanderbilt now, I've hit that for brunch twice

kaz a nou is also byob! did i say that?

There's also a pretty good little Cuban place around there but I can't remember the name.

I guess it's Brazilian
http://www.yelp.com/biz/rice-n-beans-restaurant-new-york

lol @ the name, no wonder I forgot it

xpost - no I don't think I knew that

can you bring vodka if a place is byob? i always wondered that

or cocaine

haha just kidding

haha good question. I would think yes? I've only done beer and wine. would be sweet to roll up to a byo mexican place with a pitcher of margaritas

Has anyone been to Frankie's Spuntino (Brooklyn or the new LES location)? We've been to Prime Meats, and we recently bought their cookbook which is awesome.

These guys are quite the entrepreneurs - two frankies, prime meats, some sort of partnership or ownership in Cafe Pedlar (which also has a LES location next to the frankies), the cookbook, and their own brand of olive oil.

i love james--the brunch is really good too--tho the last time i went it was pretty lackluster. steak was sort of boring.

i checked out abistro last week and really dug it. ari did not; i dont think she likes senegalese food tho she is trying to claim that it was the cooking and not the cuisine. suspect.jpg

i went to momofuku ssam and got the bo ssam with some friends a few weeks ago, plus a bunch of other dishes (tripe was godly)--what a meal. i mean, the pork is delicious but the whole thing is just fun, getting a bunch of bros together to pick at some amazing meat (pause) (rewind) getting a bunch of bros together to pick at some amazing meat

pequena is great to have on vanderblit! and the waitresses are way nicer at this lokaysh. speaking of mexico i went to mercadito the other weekend and got some bomb-ass fish tacos. WAY expensive--$8 for two tacos. but dang, maybe the best tacos ive had since leaving LA.

Oh, I did try Clinton St. Bakery brunch finally. Thought it was good but a little bit ridiculous. I mean any brunch that you wait two hours for and pay 30% more for is bound to be overrated. It's not that hard to make good eggs and pancakes.

went to momofuku ssam for the first time a few weeks ago...didn't blow me away. The pork bun was awesome, the other stuff was really good but didn't always kill me. Next door at Milk Bar the Cinnamon Bun Pie though, god damn that's something else.

Been to Frankie's on Court St. a few times, it's really good iirc.

going to Locanda Verde for my wife's b-day this wkend - will report back.

oh man, the pork bun at momofuku might be my favorite thing to eat in nyc

Went to Locanda Verde a few weeks ago as well. Some of the best appetizers and deserts any of us have ever had. But the entree's were hit-or-miss. Both pasta entree's got a "meh" for the most part. I had the Sausage Grinder which was pretty great but also hard to mess up! The duck was also good. But we all agreed on going back and just doing starters and deserts! Keep that in mind. The lamb meatball sandwhich starter was great, the fresh ricotta was great (though seasoned and not as purely awesome as Peasant). Crab crostini, Burrata, all good. But the deserts...Sweet Corn Budino was everyone's favorite, and I loved the Torta Di Miele and the Strawberry-Processo Sorbetto.

It was a good example because I went there then Momofuku like a week or two later, and the sorbet at Locanda Verde was so simple and so delicious, just the sorbet with a few simple cookies in it, then Momofuku had a blueberry sorbet with this meringue thing and yogurt and was totally cutting edge but didn't taste nearly as good.

thanks for the tips dan/looking at the menu online I thought the crostini and grinder/sliders were right up my wife and son's alleys, respectively. maybe I'll get the duck instead of pasta

I adore Locanda Verde, it's one of those places where the cooking will be totally ordinary in a few years but right now they're great. Dan's right, the entrees are the weakest part but I'd suggest doing pastas as main courses instead.

double tap for mercadito -- i've never been let down there. the hominy is amazing

hominy hominy

Toro Sushi's new home in the former Baskin Robbins (next to Flatbush Farm) is looking pretty swank

speaking of flatbush ave, for a little while this summer i was obsessed w/ bklyn larders sandwiches, which was a bad look cause theyre expensive, but i was going like 2x a week to get the chorizo and manchego or the pork sliders or the egg salad, ive tapered off a little, but, just saying

I love to hate on BK Larder because of the prices and the whole yuppie scum gourmet foodie vibe, $20 bottles of beer and various other bullshit but right after the baby was born a friend of ours sent us a huge gift basket of food from there (must have cost em a fortune) and it was fuckin' good. Like roast chicken, cold asparagus, veal meatballs, cheese ... a lifesaver. It was great. (Also helped that I didn't pay for it.)

Can't really justify the sandwiches though. I had one once. If I'm in a sandwich mood I'll just roll around the corner to City Sub. (Then literally roll back around the corner after eating a hueg sub.)