New York Restaurants

ben n jerrys chubby hubby is a good flavor - contains salty pretzels

have not eaten salty caramel frozen custard, do not like chubby hubby.
regular ice cream makes me thirsty enough.

salty ice cream is a dealbreaker imho.

― ian, Monday, November 17, 2008 3:23 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what do you hate hipsters

salty olive oil ice cream is good shit

hello! i need a really really tasty upscale restaurant in manhattan. something that will impress southern aristrocrat types from nashville while also catering to a contemporary new york lady

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where in manhattan?

what do the following words and phrases mean?

"tasty," "upscale," "impress," "southern aristrocrat," "contemporary," "lady"

this explains a lot

i am guessing the southern aristocrat has a 'family name'

i think we're going to Veritas, even tho the decor isn't like WHOA. supposedly the food is wonderful.

u dont want the southern aristocrats to think yr showing off

i dunno they're kinda showy

in a very polite sort of way?

u dont want to show them up tho

well the thing is they're taking everyone out for dinner in ny so i think they wanna feel like they're treating us to the cream o the crop ;)

ya they're real polite

oh man i love it when ppl take me out to fancy dinners

i've heard great things about Veritas, though the chef who started it left a while back. (are they wine people? if so, there's also Cru)

showy southern aristocrats looking to take others for cream of crop = Bouley, Daniel, Aureole, Le Bernardin if they're more adventurous, Four Seasons for decor over food. if they picked Veritas, they may be more serious than I'm treating them.

veritas is a real serious wine place, make sure youve got someone knowledgeable with u surmo

oh, also Gotham Bar and Grill

maybe not as much Aureole

any thoughts on Little Giant? going tomorrow night.

A+++

I remember great pasta and I remember a duck egg (perhaps together?)

is per se the best restaurant in new york?

great pasta and duck egg sounds great to me. thanks!

i think many would say that if they have to choose a best, it might be per se. i can't imagine it's twice as good as Jean Georges, which is almost half the price.

it gets the top food rating in the latest Zagat, ahead of Le Bernardin, Daniel and Jean Georges, and also the top service rating, plus 2nd place for decor (after over-the-top, Park-viewing Asiate). it's not among the top 10 most popular restaurants.

Michelin gives it 3 stars along with Jean Georges, Le Bernardin and Masa, while Gayot places it and Daniel on top, with the other three a step below

The NYT gives all five of these four stars, while NY magazine gives Per Se four stars along with 9 other restaurants, a step below five-starred Le Bernardin and Masa

Is it not among the top ten most popular because of its price?

i get take out from there sometimes :/

only five of the ten most popular, all of which are at least moderately expensive (but none of which are super-expensive), are among the top 10 for food

you get takeout from per se?

Basically everything in Zagat should be ignored.

i usually get my per se meals deliverd

or i used to when i lived near it

Basically everything in Zagat should be ignored.

― I'M ACTUALLY FINE (I DIED), Thursday, December 4, 2008 1:07 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that has always been my suspicion too.

Zagat is one among a number of useful data points, though often less useful than others. its utility may vary with its local contributorship. for NY, I find NY Mag the most useful.

Little Giant was real good, only negative was that they parked us at the bar for a half-hour even though we had a rez

zagat is good as a manhattan neighborhood directory.

I went to that new taco place in Wburg that they wrote about in the Times. La Superior

pork torta was the bommmmmb

tacos are cheap and pretty good but v. small (if I was making a meal outta just tacos there I'd need four or five)

everything there was really small. also had really bad servrice. hecho en dumbo is pretty similar and superior (haha).

i didn't have a torta though.

i really liked la superior.

portions aren't enormous, although we didn't have a problem with the sizes considering that prices were pretty low. we ate a ton for about $40 incl tax/tip.

that's true, things were priced pretty reasonably. nothing was very memorable for me, taste-wise.

i don't think i'd go out of my way for it, but i'm very happy to have it fairly close by - especially for brunch.

torta was almost like pork stew meets a sandwich .... shredded pork on bread but served in a bowl (cause the bread gets all mushy)

taco lengua was pretty good too I thought

has anybody been to Char No. 4 yet

they were on my radar for the bourbon but apparently the food's pretty good too

the fish tacos were our favorite, i think... they were topped with a pickled onion kind of thing that was so tasty. the flautas were also great, which surprised me because i have bad chi-chi's associations with flautas, but the green sauce served with them is fantastic.

xpost - no. want to try that place.

wife was there and approved but i have no further details (char #4)