Rolling NYC Food Snob 'The Yelp Of ILX' Kill Yourself Thread

Also their choppers are fucking insane with those moon blades -- I'm amazed fingers don't wind up in the salad with the speed at which they operate.

ok i assumed it was like chipotle for salads or something

ugh chopped up salad is the worst

It's sort of Chipotle-like -- they have a very large menu of pre-determined salads and a lot of different dressings but you can also make your own or take one of their planned salads and substitute things. Honestly it's good, I just wish it was like 20% cheaper.

Make your own = tell them the ingredients you want, like in a chipotle. Similar assembly line sort of concept.

yeah their salads are fine as long as you stop them from transforming them into a gruel-like consistency

num pang is also good btw if kinda pricey.

yall almost had me til assembly line gruel salads

Yeah once in a while I go to the Num Pang near Grand Central for lunch.

I do not like potbelly at all.

Rise of Potbelly is weird but if they are keeping out Jimmy John's I will go to a Potbelly's every week

protip potbellys generally have clean unsecured bathrooms

Potbelly is foul. I wonder why somebody doesn't invent a good-tasting fast casual sub shop? Potbelly, Jimmy John's, Subway, Quizno all roughly equally dispiriting in my experience.

hard to say which of those is the worst. i have fond memories of schlotzky's but haven't been in probably 15 years.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2015/03/ganso-yaki-opens.html

Ganso Yaki has opened (It's good but expeeeeeeeeeeensive)

those chairs look really uncomfortable

http://ny.eater.com/2015/4/13/8399095/east-broadway-dive-169-bar-could-be-shut-down-over-underage-drinking

:(

Wonder if Mission Chinese is turning the screws

If 169 goes that part is gonna get turned upmarket real quick

that being said, i would happily trek out to flushing to new restoran malaysia any damn time. a similar enormous menu to skyway, my main point of malaysian reference (ie i am not an expert). a couple different rojaks, a savory fruit salad that is apparently a common street food. we got one with many sour things and a tamarind/shrimp paste sauce. i liked it but i am not self-aware enough to know if it was for orientalist novelty reasons or true gastronomic affection. giant plate of chicken gizzards, livers and hearts with an excellent sweet/hot dipping sauce for $5--maybe one of the most unattractive plates i have ever seen, just a mound of gray offal, the livers were delicious in particular. good roti canai. also, most importantly, maybe the best beef rendang i have ever had. i guess rendang is cross-cultural and primarily associated with indonesian cuisine but this topped renditions from dedicated indonesian places that i've been.

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Me n my friend went here and it was great! Got the beef rendang and curry seafood laksa n of course stir fried water spinach

Then went to see I don't want to sleep alone @ momi and reminisced about the trip I took to malaysia

two really amazing meals recently: dinner at carmellini's new nuamerican spot little park, and brunch at estela. recommend both wholeheartedly

dayo i am glad you liked that place! since i foolishly sold my car my queens eating trips have been curtailed but i am hoping nice weather will inspire me to travel more.

had a bad dinner at briefly hyped tuome. overpriced but decent carolina pulled pork at arrogant swine.

my most enjoyable recent meal was at east village og john's, carafe of cheap wine and a plate of eggplant parm the size of a rugby ball. this was after walking by javelina, the gussied up tex mex place on 18th, and being horrified by the decor (90s santa fe pier one chic) and the crowd (happy hour creatives). maybe the food there is legit but i'm not braving that scene.

adam I'll teach you to take the Chinatown van

yes please.

oh i also went to royal seafood on mott st and had a kinda boring meal. the most interesting thing by far was a dish of lotus root in "tofu sauce." i don't know if this is a common cantonese thing but it was delicious and i would like to find other examples in perhaps better restaurants.

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/chinese-burger-chain-uncle-sam-open-monday-nyc-article-1.2221278

Everything about this review is so bad

So the Chinese have built a better burger, eh? Americans are likely to be quite skeptical about this Tiananmen takedown of our dietary staple.

eh?

chomp chomp was good but not great

very intrigued by superiority burger i love veggie burgers maybe even more than rela burgers?

good veggie burger is better than all but the tip top best real burgers. a bad veggie burger is no worse than a bad real burger. superiority pictures look good but i have been burned by hot young things in this city too many times, might wait til the lines die down

giving you an exclusive mott street review in non-77 space - taiwan bear house is pretty new but i just had their minced/braised pork and i like it alot! rest of the stuff on yelp seems good too from pictures would like to go back again

http://www.yelp.com/biz/taiwan-bear-house-new-york

this is not exactly a secret pick but paulie gee's pizza is really fuckin good

i wanna try some of the russian restaurants in deep Brooklyn like avenue u Bensonhurst graves end

I passed by a sushi restaurant that was 100% kosher and under the strict supervision of a rabbi last time I was there

i've been to a (good) georgian restaurant in gravesend but i find it hard to resist l&b spumoni gardens if i am in that neighborhood. the russian joint sietsema wrote about this week sounded great tho.

have you been to the uighur place in brighton beach, cafe kashkar? i've only had takeout from there but it was excellent

No but I think in orbit has been

need to explore south Brooklyn more

i will go anywhere that has pickled oily fish on the menu tbh

Everyone and I mean everyone raves about Spumoni Gardens. I'm gonna have to go to see what the fuss is all about even though I can't eat probably anything! Also I biked past a large fresh pasta place on New Utrecht Ave yesterday that looked intrsting.

It was actually chinavision's other half that sent me to Kashkar! Was good, a bit more Central Asian cuisiney than the other place I like on Brighton Beach 2nd with the giant golden bowl on the awning.

Uhhhh Varenichnaya

When I had a Russian model roommate for a minute last summer she brought some oily fish home one night and shared it, with tasteless pasty boiled potatoes and some pickles (which admittedly were great). I thought I liked fishy fish but uh no it was awful.

Lol

i'd better buy some creamed herring in a jar before i fully commit

Kashkar doesn't serve alcohol btw tho they let us BYOB.

spumoni gardens is that crazy throwback pre-foodie place that people think of when they say "red sauce" Italian. easy to build up into some kinda elysian fields ideal when it's just good kinda greasy pizza and ices. summer in the city yall. we sat inside the "formal" dining room once on a super-humid day and had pasta - wish i could make sauce like that. after the waiter took our orders and walked away, my son (a native new yorker albeit manhattan) looked at me wide eyed and said quietly "is he faking that accent?" and I laughed and said no! like i said, old-school brooklyn.

read about superiority burgers, sure don't look vegetarian!

i was all set to walk over to superiority burger and wait in line but they are doing the fake scarcity thing rn, no lunch and weekends only, lame

Maybe do the opposite food wise and go to fuku instead

lol everyone I work with now talks like that.

http://the-toast.net/2015/07/27/if-white-people-food-were-described-like-exotic-food/

hadn't seen this thread.

Not russian but Ukrainian, Cafe Glechik was great.

i love the look of that place but i heard it moved (off of coney island ave by the black sea bookstore)

speaking of brighton beach have yall been to the former movie theater/current russian fancy grocery store? it's not as good as brighton beach bazaar but it is a cool scene

gourmanoff it's called

yo fuku is trash, i've had better chicken sandwiches at rally's

that's what i've been hearing??

super salty, v little flavor. mushy frozen steak wedge fries covered in seasoned salt were honestly kinda perplexing.

https://twitter.com/tkretchmar/status/633251595145318400

see you guys there http://i.imgur.com/9vWlFfy.jpg

http://ny.eater.com/2015/8/25/9205725/kings-county-imperial-restaurant-review

as someone who enjoys mission chinese i'm not entirely against the concept but i'm struggling to see what new ideas they're bringing to the table

Has anybody been to decoy? i'm intringued

M. Wells steakhouse recently for my birthday, actually second trip. I love it overall, but weirdly the steak we got was the least exciting thing - NY Strip, which they char on the outside no matter how you ask for it done and oversalt. Best things were actually the fresh oysters, which had some kind of an apple-chive topping, and the trout, which comes fresh from their tank and is served whole.

Generally really love what they do, both at the Steakhouse and at the little joint at PS1.

http://chopsticksandmarrow.com/2015/11/the-nest-satisfies-shark-chicken-foot-caribbean-chinese-cravings/#more-2654

i wanna try here

http://i.imgur.com/xnZ9725.png

IA @ that

article is dumb too, basically sounds like any restaurant that isn't brand new/cutting-edge falls into the author's definition. E.g. in my old neighborhood he includes both a cheap Polish diner and a good but standard-issue French bistro.

white bear in flushing is sort of amazingly mediocre but im happy white people have been tricked into thinking its good

my theory is when white ppl see the wontons come out splashed in red oil they feel scared but since its not actually spicy at all white ppl feel proud of themselves for being able to eat soemthing that looks spicy

http://ny.eater.com/2016/2/24/11110200/69-bayard-closing

argh

r u flocking?

I guess I'm here through the holidays... any recommendations as to what's open on Thanksgiving?

(Under normal circumstances, I'd go to 69 Bayard as xx-posted above but belated RIP)

https://ny.eater.com/maps/best-thanksgiving-restaurants-nyc

haven't been to any of the above. if you're looking for something in chinatown i'd try uncle lou's.

Yah, I'm not much of a holiday food fan so I figured I'd just walk around Chinatown and see what was open. Thanks for the Uncle Lou's tip.