ooh yeah, i had an Orion at Momufuku and it was v refreshing i liked pearl oyster bar, and mary's fish camp is supposed to be good. cheaper alternative is the grey dog, which can be annoying but pretty tasty
― mizzell, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
also, meyers of keswick, i think that's what's it's called, has awesome english meat pies and such. but no dining room.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link
(What happened to ramen brunch?)
Ear Inn on Spring Street is my go-to place when at Film Forum, though I could use other suggestions for when I feel like a change.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
better question is what happened to pio pio fap??
― dmr, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yea! Come on foodies!
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 03:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Lauren and I had a pio pio riko fap...college friend was in town.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Otto is pretty decent, I think the pasta is better than the pizza, but the pizza is still pretty decent. Olive oil ice cream is indeed good.
I could do with eating at Pio Pio again. ALthough preuvian chicken fix has been coming from Chimu express, which delivers and does a good 13 buck steak, chicken and fried rice box, which does dinner nicely for two people.
I'd be up for doing Pio pio when I am next over. Hopefully early may.
― Ed, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah, pio pio fap, good call. i will do this anytime!
i thought setagaya was just ok, but i've never had ramen that wasn't out of a packet before so i don't know what i'm talking about and should not be listened to. it was just not what i was craving at the moment. and i thought the gyoza were not only very average quality but soggy and only cooked on one side.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm, weird. i love the gyoza. i don't mind if they're only cooked on one side, as long as that side is really well-grilled (which ours were). maybe they turn them out really quickly when they're offering the special.
― lauren, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Setagaya was a bit al dente; I don't think I had their gyoza though.
OK when is Pio Pio?
This Sunday? Or are weeknights better for people? Let's make a plan plan.
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
WAHT IS GOOD THAI IN MANHATTAN/BROOKLYN?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Zabb City on 13th.
― ian, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Only Sripraphai is better, in my experience.
JAIYA THAI THIRD AVE AND 28TH ST
― Virginia Plain, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i have never had good thai in brooklyne. go to 1 queens mookie
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Zabb Queens is better then Zabb City though!
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ not in brooklyn or manhattan.
― ian, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i didn't really like zabb city, i'm sad to say.
― lauren, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm sorry you didn't like your larb, but how could you not like that duck? It's soooo good. And I've been eating a beef salad at Zabb Queens. You know how the beef usually is in thai salads? This was more like some korean style medium-rare totally marinated awesomeness.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 19:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i actually hated the combo of the duck and raw apple slices. it's not often that i out-and-out dislike something so much. the larb dislike was due to several factors: it was served steaming (warm larb is an isaan thing, apparently) and had no flavor aside from an incredible level of chile heat. i'm still up for trying zabb in queens.
― lauren, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
the labb there is basically just a really spicy pile of ground pork! i love that duck though. i also like the isaan meat salad, and the isaan sausage.
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
The salads have different slightly more confusing names in Queens. There isn't one or two meat salads, but a ton with choices of meat. When I can remember, I'll post the name of the spicy salad I've been getting with beef.
I like the sausage at Zabb City as well, I tried to replicate the experience in Queens and got a weird salad with soft, bologna-esque bits of sausage. Not the same thing at all!
However, I've since discovered the Sweet Sausage salad at Srip, which is the BEST FOOD EVER. Incredibly tasty/sweet sausage in a spicy lime/chili dressing with tons of mint, cilantro, cucumbers tomato etc.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 20:03 (sixteen years ago) link
that sounds amazing. you guys have had the crispy watercress salad at srip right?
― bell_labs, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
-- mookieproof, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 18:31 (2 hours ago) Link
Pam Real Thai, 49th and 9th. Cannot rec this place enough.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I've had the veggie version of the crispy watercress salad, but also this kinda veggie version where they use super tasty fake ham. The quality varies, maybe depending on how busy they are. It's ranged from bleh to transcendent.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
had real good huevos rancheros at tom's diner for breakfast this morning, started my day off right
― dmr, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Where is a good Schzechuanese place?
― Ed, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:32 (sixteen years ago) link
spicy and tasty in flushing
― mizzell, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:36 (sixteen years ago) link
and Little Pepper, in the old Spicy and Tasty place.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
PIES āNā THIGHS Sarah Buck, Carolyn Bane and Erika Geldzahler left their devotees of North Carolina-style pulled pork and first-rate fried chicken hungry in January when they closed, but they plan to reopen this summer in a larger location nearby: 166 South Fourth Street (Driggs Avenue), Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
mas gets **
― gabbneb, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Pies or Thighs was in the middle of friggin nowhere by the WBRUG BRIDGE. not worth the pies or thights
― burt_stanton, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^DIE
― tehresa, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
fake burt stanton
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 27 March 2008 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Hush, let him believe whatever he wants. Do not want to drink w trolls.
― Laurel, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Vice Versa?
Sounded promising for a while there.
― G00blar, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:21 (sixteen years ago) link
in situations like that, saying "i'm sorry, but we're not finished" is probably more productive than writing a horrified blog post about it after the fact.
― lauren, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, they were aggressive, but it's famously a pre-theater place - that's sorta what people expect from it
― gabbneb, Thursday, 27 March 2008 14:37 (sixteen years ago) link
3 days til ippudo ramen opens to the public...
― lauren, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
that's actually where we tried to go monday! the had there "soft opening" this week but closed at 3pm or something.
― bell_labs, Thursday, 27 March 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
in the hangover cure dept, i just wolfed down a bunch of fried veggies on skewers, rice, and two chicken wings from tebaya. burp.
― lauren, Thursday, 27 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
ok i am looking for a place to eat near the F line in the park slope/windsor terrace vicinity. me and some friends have a social engagement sat. evening near the fort hamilton station, but we want to stop and get dinner on the way. anyplace w/in a 10-15 minute walk of any of the F stations enroute would be fine. i'm guessing the 7th ave. stop will offer us the most options, but i don't know. ideas?
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 28 March 2008 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
what kind of food?
― bell_labs, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Sasha and Malia appointed to Supreme Court
― gabbneb, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
any kind of food really, but there are vegetarians in the party.
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 28 March 2008 14:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Tipsy: There is an indonesian restaurant down 7th ave that is pretty good. There are plenty of mediocre and boring chinese, thai & japanese places. Bonnies on 5th ave at Garfield is great; they have burgers and wings and stuff, so maybe not the best choice for vegetarians though they DO have a (supposedly) great house-made veg burger. There are good taquerias on fifth avenue, heading up into the higher numbers.
― ian, Friday, 28 March 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
a veg burger cooked right there on the same tasty grill as all those tasty burgers and sausages! I go there for the spicy mayo though.
The most options would probably involve getting off at the Bergen or Carroll stops...you can walk to Lucali's which is supposed to be one of the top 5 pizza places in the city...I tried to go for the first time wed night and there was an hour and a half wait though!
Zaytoons isn't mindblowing but it's my comfort food favorite middle eastern, and you may run into the Beastie Boys there, I did once.
Saul, the Grocery, Po, Chestnut are all generally regarded well.
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Someone has been raving to me about Frankie's, the mafia-ish place by the funeral parlor? Really. How is it?
― Laurel, Friday, 28 March 2008 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Song Thai at 5th Av and 2nd (altho Selzer vehemently disagrees), it's not authentic but their pad thai is addictive. pretty cheap.
fish n chips -- Chip Shop at 5th av and 6th. maybe not good for veg.
sushi -- Sakura Cafe at 5th and 9th
Cafe Steinhof at 7th ave and .... 13th? is supposed to be good but I haven't been
there's also a couple places in Kensington I was gonna recommend, Picket Fence (southern comfort food) and especially Farm on Adderley but I think they are farther out than your destination
― dmr, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I recommended this place upthread. It's about a 10 minute walk from the Carroll St. stop.
Best Use of Chickpeas - Ferdinando's FERDINANDO'S is Brooklyn's oldest focacceria, a Sicilian snack shop that specializes in oil-slicked vegetables, stewed seafood, and tiny sandwiches on round rolls. One of their best products is the panelle special, made with chickpea fritters that show the influence of North Africa on Sicily piled on one of the aforementioned rolls and then heaped with clouds of the freshest ricotta. Two make a meal. -Robert Sietsema
151 Union Street, Brooklyn
― Hurting 2, Friday, 28 March 2008 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link