54-46, that's my number: the Queens thread

i got a new phone and hastily typed in my old address book so it is quite possible that I do not

Ah, that explains it.

I had 88 instead of 22 for some reason

Haha, I'm too wine besotted to go out now, but maybe tomorrow? I only wish there was a halfway decent bar in this neighborhood.

yeah I'm too whisky besotted but I will text the real u tomorrow

Great. Maybe a real bar will materialize by then.

Anyone know about the Jackson Heights area? My sister lives there and I have yet to hear from her. She lives at 3525 77th St.

should be fine

jackson depths not so much

I haven't heard anything bad about jackson heights -- possible she doesn't have power but unlikely there's much else wrong

on my walk back from qbp I noticed a cute little cafe. an actual cafe, not some bodega or donut shop or whatever. w/ that, the bike lanes and little park, jetblue, the new apt buildings, new posh hotel, idk, it's hard to imagine qbp ever being *nice* but some of the buildings around there are historic and could be turned into something interesting. I mean there is an upper limit to how nice a bridge entrance can get and it's never gonna be prospect heights or whatever but I can imagine that area getting kinda liveable?

I'll be at Terreza tonight around 7:30 if anyone wants to stop by/has the means to do so...

I was thinking about going there to see the band tonight but I might not make it until about 9:30

Also I think the owner of Novo on 37th told me he was doing happy hour prices all night tonight

We're here now up on the bleachers.. It looks like music will start soon.

Now it is. I'm sitting near the piano. I think the original bass player listed is in Peru and the drummer in Canada but I've high hopes for this lineup

Oh no. We're at home now, but likely will be back for the cinco de mayo party tomorrow night.

Ha, I just made myself look crepey and asked

a few ladeez if they were librarians. Maybe you were checking out as I was checking in. Did you come on a bicycle?

Haha, that was me! I left on a yellow bicycle...

OK. probably won't make it to the Dia de Los Muertos thing but at least I have an inkling now

Turkish cat on drums is awesome. Too bad Hurting isn't here.

I prefer siamese cats on my drums -- better tone.

Kind of psyched about this place:

http://www.jacknellies.com/

http://foresthills.patch.com/articles/meet-the-owner-cyril-burke-of-jack-and-nellie-s

Craft beer, wine, small plates. Wouldn't blink if it opened in Williamsburg, but something like this is badly needed in FH.

Hm. What time does that Dia de Los Muertos thing start?

OMFG the M. Wells cafeteria in PS1 is amazing.

It also happened to be a perfect way for us to have something of a restaurant experience without worrying about the baby (quick service, ultra-casual atmosphere, etc.)

Tonight at Terraza: a Portuguese singer with two Brazilian guys playing six-string basses in kind of a high life style

Which is pretty awesome so far.

Sorry, no space in highlife

Now a slow minor key number with some scatting.

All with Yayo Serka on drums. But you probably already knew that.

Tried a Peruvian place called I think Urubamba in Jackson Heights today -- v tasty, reasonably priced, nice atmosphere.

Yeah, I took a photo of the menu once ages ago and finally tried it a few months ago. Peruvian but specializing in "Incan" pre-Columbian type stuff as well. They had two drinks everyone was getting, their special pre-columbian juices. We got both, one was nasty and the other was great, but I can't remember which is which. Kind of nutmeg-y grape juice non-alcoholic spiced wine tasting stuff.

Food was pretty good...not super destination restaurant good, but good enough, a nice change for the neighborhood and nice atmosphere.

Awesome band at Terraza tonight, Manhattan Vibes, and now they are playing a song called "Red and Black." No relation

Food was pretty good...not super destination restaurant good, but good enough, a nice change for the neighborhood and nice atmosphere.

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yeah, I'd say this is right. We also kind of didn't know what to order, so we wound up getting a lamb stew and a fish-in-broth thing, both of which were good but IDK if it's their specialty.

the buildings north of 37th Ave. seem pretty nice. We were briefly like "hmm maybe we should live here instead of Forest Hills" but I still think Forest Hills is probably better for parents with small kids

the buildings are nice but jackson heights is pretty lacking in white people stuff whereas forest hills is lacking in non-white people stuff

I wouldn't really say the latter is true, depending on what you mean by "non-white people stuff"

Forest Hills doesn't have 500 nepali restaurants.

if you mean, say, good asian or latin american restaurants, yeah. In fact it doesn't really have good anything restaurants. It's full of non-white people though.

My building is a mix of eastern europeanss, israelis immigrants, dominicans, asians, and a smattering of no-label white people.

that's what I meant

all of queens is like that but it doesn't help you in your day to day unless your neighbors make you food

yeah total food wasteland. I actually pick up boston market when we need takeout because it's pretty much I shit you not the best option.

Nick's Pizza is good though.

I heard there's good uzbek kebab in rego park. I tried the one that's closest and it was meh, but the really good one is further away.

nick's is really good, you guys get a reward for having no other good food, and the rest of queens is punished w/ having shitty pizza

the amount of shitty pizza places that exist in nyc really makes me question certain aspects of capitalism

supposedly wafa's on metropolitan is good, but that's so far from me it might as well be another neighborhood

we have a gastro pub/tapas thingy now called something like Jack and Nellie's. It's across from Nick's. Wife tried it with friends and said it was alright. At least it's not ridiculously cheesy looking like exo cafe and all those other places.

Wafa's was pretty good, but not the destination that chowhounders make it out to be. I went once at the original location when it was off metropolitan and tiny, then again when it was bigger and on metro. It was good, but not SUPER special.

I love Nick's, even if the mozz is a bit rubbery, which is something I kinda like anyway. I love the arugula house salad or whatever, and getting a root beer with my pizza. Also great is the calzone, totally ridiculous ricotta overload, and the desert canoli, which I had to ask them to not dust pistachio all over.

The other two places on metropolitan that got chow attention are/were the sushi place, I can't remember the name, and db wine bar. Haven't been to either.

What I'm most bummed about is after giving up on De Mole delivery because their quality has just been sliding for years and we got delivery that was straight up gross, I discovered Cafe 58, little market looking place on 58th just around the corner from Roosevelt/Woodside/Donovans that's been a dozen places and I never would've thought twice about till I noticed they had good reviews on Seamless so I tried it and it was actually GREAT tacos, quesadillas and burittos. And now they're not delivering any more. Maybe they're closed altogether. I don't know.

maybe you shouldn't live so far from de mole! idk the takeout I get is always fine. who do you do for indian delivery?