New York Restaurants

i actually don't like donut plant, although i've never tried the cake ones. i hate the "yeast donut" style that they started out specializing in. peter pan is my choice for occasional indulgence.

xpost - maybe people realized that kk's are kind of gross.

KK doughnuts are so gross to me, I adore the apple cider kind, the cake ones with a slightly yellow interior and either no frosting or the real chocolate stuff. I've heard there are Greenpoint bakeries with reasonable facsimiles of my childhood doughnuts but haven't rly looked.

greenpoint bakeries have some amazing donuts.
i hate krispy kreme too. and the look of the doughnut plant ones give me the same sickly sweet feeling, though i have never tried them.

so is the consensus that ssam bar is better than noodle bar?

laurel, you would LOVE peter pan. trust me on this. run, don't walk!

someone on ch0wh0und said that biting into a glazed yeast donut is like biting into wet waxed paper, and i find that description totally accurate.

is there a time when it's better to go to momufuku to avoid the crowds? or is it not that bad? it looks so tiny.

or: do they deliver?

krispy kreme::donuts = taco bell::mexican

speaking of donuts. whatever happened to krispy kreme? it just kind of died off. maybe america's love affair with the doughnut is over.

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:34 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol come to flyover country

they've closed down all the krispy kreme stores in nyc though, right?

if you go before 7, or for lunch, or if the weather is shitty you should be ok at momofuku. the new place is bigger so sometimes the wait is not as bad as it looks. I doubt they deliver.

you can get Top Pot donuts on every corner now, why would you want KK? for real doughnuts, get out of the city.

i don't want KK. it was just mysterious how the stores all vanished. what are top pot donuts?

you can find them at the evil coffee empire

My mom used to make doughnuts once in a GREAT while...I remember sitting on the piano bench eating doughnut holes hot from the fryer until I was ill.

the old smaller place is now Momofuku Ko with some goofy internet reservation system. posts like this one from Eater make me not even want to fucking bother. reservation scalpers?? get the fuck out.

>Ko-BOOM: Still Hope —This just in from the tipline: "Ko-ancellations do happen. I just picked up a two-top for 9:00pm tomorrow night." Cancellations— resulting in new prime open seats—could be a by-product of the new ID rule forcing resy scalpers and those who made multiple resys to hand over the goods.

i think if you go to ssam bar early (like 5.30/6) then it might not be too bad. you can make reservations for the bo ssam dinner. if you have the max number of people (10), then it actually becomes a greata value.

I was gonna say, is it really hard to get into those places if you go at like 1 in the morning?

I went to Noodle Bar around 4pm on a Sunday and got seated right away, but before we were done a line was already forming.

I went to the original momofuku once (the night of the last blizzard that dropped 30 inches of snow overnight, feb 05 or 06 maybe?) and it was garbage... seriously, i can not comprehend the level of acclaim such a generic fusion place has garnered.

my understanding is it's highly inconsistent - it's capable of greatness, but only some of the time

aw i thought this was the shasta approved noodle bar! which one am i think of?

i've been three times- twice to noodle bar and once to ssam when they just sold burritos. all was awesome.

that would be Ramen Setagaya (1st ave btw 8&9).

i realize my palate is probably quite different than their frequent customers though.

mmmm, setagaya! i really liked the ssam bar, but not for the ssams (in fact, i thought lunch was pretty bad). shasta and phil-two both gave the noodle bar a big thumbs-down, and that was enough to put me off.

^^^their = momofuku's

to me momofuku and setagaya are about equal taste-wise but I'm far from a ramen connoisseur. setagaya's a little cheaper too.

horray i will go to setagaya!

i want to go too!

it's been a while.

do you want to go this week?

sure. i kind of like doing ramen brunch, if that works for you.

i emailed you!

Lauren is such a brunch tart. She'll eat with anyone!

PS: I am totally going to Santana soooooooooon.

it's true.

As someone who doesn't eat eggs (although I eat eggs cooked in stuff), it is very very annoying that most brunch places have such crap options for me (and vegetarians & vegans). Never a fan of brunch, especially in N. Brooklyn.

most places do a really half-assed job. eggs are cheap and fast, so you get pretty ill-considered variations on 2 served any style with potatoes and toast.

Deee lishus.

Wait, you forgot pork form.

i go to sushi gen in pspect heights for brunch almost every weekend now. they do an amazing job with everything. and the only eggs are a tamago patty usually with eel or crab.

and i am so over potatoes in the morning, they just put me to sleep!

i really hate the paprika-heavy home fries with green/red pepper and onion that have become the standard at a lot of places trying to class things up. it doesn't help that they're almost always lukewarm.

god i love eggs and breakfast meats but would gladly go back to santana sooooon. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I think home fries are better than potatoes cut up as far as this xpost to b_l

The blueberry pancakes at Clinton Street Baking Company are really good.

Peppers in home fries are gross. Home fries: day-old cooked potatoes, onions, fried in butter/olive oil mix with shitloads of pepper. A dusting of paprika is fine to give veggies a smokey taste but in other circs the paprika ought to come via the tiny pieces of chorizo you fry off with the onions. Simply put, do not embellish HF recipe until you can make it with only onions, pepper and the cooking fat of your choice.

Lauren is also correct in that HF should be HOT.

My best experience with day-old potato usage is (attn Londoners) the chips from the Fryer's Delight, which are chunky and fried in beef tallow.

I want brunch. Is the Greenpoint ramen open yet?

that place is never opening, as far as i can tell.