New York Restaurants

Shopsin's lives up to the hype, y'all.

lol just say tater tots

ha

I was more focused on the many, many, many bourbons

I ate at Bellavitea last week and kinda wondered how Tipsy wound up liking it.

Re: expensive cocktails I'm tempted to say it's something you're best off going all in on -- e.g., if you want to have a fancy-cocktail night, go to one of the first-wave places with $20 drinks and enjoy them and don't worry about it,* because I get the feeling any place jumping on the trend and serving tiny $10 fancy cocktails is going to be a bust, in addition to making you stand at the bar watching drinks get mixed exactly twice as often.

(* If this is really difficult, maybe the trick is to have beans for dinner at home and just figure the hundred you dropped on fancy interesting drinks everyone loved and discussed might even cost slightly less than what you'd spend on a nice restaurant and five regular-priced drinks.)

okay I don't think how one feels about Weather Up has anything to do with liking expensive cocktails or not. I am one of the primo cocktail snobs on ILX and I love the hell out of snooty cocktail bars but I called that place out for being shit on this thread months ago.

Best restaurant in NY: Caravan of Dreams

that place isn't even the best vegan restaurant in NY, nevermind restaurant as a whole

What do you like more?

What [vegan joint] do you like more, I mean.

I was more focused on the many, many, many bourbons

i sense a happy hour in our future.

It's not a category I've explored much but pure food and drink is pretty impressive.

sorry, I mean pure food and wine

ok so that cornelius place I mentioned is bogus

char no. 4 is cool though. beef hot links rocked

Had brunch with wife's fam at Ocean Grill. Is this place supposed to be good? SUCKED.

Not only was food bad and overpriced, but tables were super cramped in so that I could barely breathe, waiter couldn't get around the table and had to hand stuff to us, and at the end of the meal they gave us customer-satisfaction cards! Which I actually wanted to fill out and complain except I was more insulted by the idea of having to fill one out in a proper restaurant at all.

haha ouch

i definitely woulda filled on out tho

ilx qnz brigade: arepas cafe in astoria - yes/no?

it's questionable that ocean grill is a "proper restaurant," it's owned by b.r. guest.

yeah, get a blog

get a blow job

oh shi

yow

srsly tho all their restaurants hand out comment cards, it is totally weird to do so when you're trying to kind of elevate your brand to high mid-end to throw in comment cards.

if i get one i will def write get a blog/blowjob on it

get a blagojevich, am i right

THIS MY BLØWJOB[Started by ice cr?m in December 2008, last updated Yesterday by ice cr?m] 30 new answers

man i havent posted to the bløgjob today - anyone have any ideas

the couple times i've been in one of their restaurants, i've really been tempted to write filthy cracks on these comment cards, i gotta be honest. literally the only thing stopping me is pity for the waiter.

ice cr?m
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dpstyles/3255148899/

maybe you could post 25 things about yourself

thats like the original blogg xp

ilx qnz brigade: arepas cafe in astoria - yes/no?

yes, the reina, which is basically chicken salad with avocado was great. Not as many veggie-friendly options as Caracas, who's new location in Williamsburg is larger then the nightmare that is the one in the east village.

lol i seen some realness @ e village location

oh! buttermilk channel in south carroll gardens is very good. we had sweet potato & goat cheese croquettes which were delicious, then alex had the thurs rabbit special and i ate the duck meatloaf. both dishes were very tasty! a little $$$$ but whatever, it was nice there. owner was all gregarious and shit too since it's newish. they also had a merlot from brooklyn oenology that i'd never tried that was quite nice, kind of smoky. a++

tonite i think we're going to try char no. 4!

I'm going to be up at the end of the month and will be going to some New York Restaurants.

what new york restaurants are you planning on visiting

uh whichever ones haven't closed by then

RW thru 2/27 at lots of places

when u get here call just 311 and ask them for the address of a restaurant thats still in business

tonite i think we're going to try char no. 4!

DUDE one of you has to get the beef hot links trust me on this

RW thru 2/27 at lots of places

not to mention all the extra deals going on that Bruni wrote about this week

my wife and a friend went to that $35 prix fixe thing at Matsugen and said it was real good value. also said the place was real empty.

omg I DIED lets get a drink together

i went to capri caffe and adored it

the bathroom there is like in the broom closet in the attic

"Honey, get in here! Somewhat took a shit in our attic broom closet!"

dmr,

matsugen: the soba shop? i know they opened one in honolulu a few years ago to mixed reviews but no idea they were expanding across NoAm.

http://www.jean-georges.com/

yeah it's soba and sushi

i know they opened one in honolulu a few years ago to mixed reviews

huh, mixed reviews? didn't know that. the NY one got a rave in the Times (3 stars). been open since last June.

I think I'm going to be up from the 25th-28th, here's my working list:

James
Matsugen
Co.
Bar Breton
Char No. 4
El Quinto Pino
Irving Mill
Porchetta
Double Crown
Death & Co.
Clover Club
Casa Mono

o those closed