DAN SELZER, TOTALLY NOT BUMMING, RATES NYC EAT SPOTS

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I just feel like I should share my Valentines day dinner review with you

Tea & Sympathy on Greenwich:
-more cramped than mamoun's
-pitiful chav wait staff
-neurotic proprietor (see "Nicky's rules")
-horribly overpriced (7$ mac&cheese side dish)
-absolutely delicious

I recommend the welsh rarebit w/ bacon, but I don't recommend the restaurant.

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

My girlfriend and I went to her house and cooked. Well, she cooked, I chopped and cleaned. We figured we go out to nice meals enough that it would be more rare and special to just stay home and make some food.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

we went to this place regional, up on da uws. not bad, tho our appetizer was not as hot as it should've been.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

We went to Ghenet on Mulberry, braved the crowd, cleaned our plate.

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link

ghenet is goooood

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i ate some ben & jerry's and a burrito. i did not have to pay for anyone else.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Ghenet is my gf's favorite ethiopian place. mine too, now that i think about it.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

great, now i want injera bread

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

new green bo used to be better. they still have the best vegetable dumplings i've ever had, though. dan, you might have been there. i had my birthday party there maybe 5 yrs ago and eveyrone complained because the food was weird, not sweet and sour-type stuff.
joe's shanghai is always annoyingly crowded, but their soup dumplings are great. goody's is pretty much the same quality, but never as packed with tourists. their pork shoulder is soooo good,

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember now. Don't much remember the food, but do remember the people, and a photo taken out front that ended up on Rebecca and your mantle for a bit, no?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

ah, days gone by. we went to the cooler afterwards and ashley passed out.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Ghenet is the only Ethiopian place I've ever been to. It is a cuisine whose taste I've not yet acquired.

The fine Indian place on 5th Ave in the South Slope, Kinara, is always nearly empty.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

thres an eithiopean placein the e/ village which is better than ok, but not great. ill have to check chowhound, theres gotta be a better place to go.

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

meskerem (in hell's kitchen) gets a lot of love, but i don't think it's better than ghenet. the best ethiopian restaurant i've been to is in cleveland.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i have not been to an ethiopian place in new york, weirdly, but i've been to great ones in chicago and seattle.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link

hey have you guys ever been to this place called "burritoville"?

i think i will "check it out" today!

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link

i went to the one on bleeker and 7th ave last night!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the white chicken chilli burrito.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

is the st.clair still around?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

st. clair burrito?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

The fine Indian place on 5th Ave in the South Slope, Kinara, is always nearly empty.

Kinara is the best -- and worst restaraunt. Sietsema turned me and the gf on to it, it seems you can never get a good curry in the Slope, but they do it right. I need vindaloos hot, and they'll throw fire it up for you, unlike all the other bland Slope places.

we were down in south slope once and walked in to eat there after ordering from them many times. totally awful decor, like these corny black chinese restaraunt style plastic tables and cold tile floor. they even have a 50% off eat-in special, and it's still empty. the reason why their delivery range is so huge is cos that's all the business they do.

get the crab curry. it is amazing, and for the $12 or $13 it costs, you probably get about $10 worth of lump crab meat, it is a hugely generous portion.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

st.clair restaurant on atlantic and smith, where i enjoyed many a mediocore omelette. nice chandeliers.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link

where did we go for brecky, lp?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

went to kinara back in like '97 when i was living on 4th avenue, and it put me off indian food for a couple years. fucking terrible.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

that was then, this is now

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link

although I failed to mention that one out of six crab curries will give you assplosions the next day. it's like culinary russian roulette.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

St. Clair is still there. But there's a better diner that opened up just down the street, Salonike, or the Carroll Garden's Diner. Their menu says "Where else are you gonna go?". It's 24 hours and standard diner fair, but suprisingly great hamburgers. I used to go there a ton, not so much lately.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

we went to old devil moon, steve.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

i like old devil moon.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link

their brunch is yum, but i'm afraid to go back there lest i run into my thuggish old super or his sinister junkie brother.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Stenc are you sure you've got the right one? my impression is Kinara opened in the last year, at least at this location.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

really, old devil moon? last time i was there was entrely terrible...it was actually amazingly terrible. and its hard to make brunch terrible..maybe just an off sat.

― bb (bbrz), Thursday, 16 February 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

kinara is where i go to order my injun foods.

old devil moon is always so crowded at brunch time, I think I've tried to go a few times but not actually succeeded.

What do pork slopers think of STEINHOF? It is perhaps my favorite local yumyum spot.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

ok well i went to whatever indian restaurant it is in p.s. that's been there for years and must be some sort of money-laundering operation because nobody ever eats there.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

you may perhaps be thinking of the recently closed "india house"?

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link

i went there (steinhopf) once and it was good. My girlfriend, who doesn't eat meat, liked it less. I had a sausage thing, my pals got weinerschnitzel. I will go back.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I live across the street from Steinhof and usually go only on $5 goulash night.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

OLD DEVIL MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

fuck if i know ian it was almost 10 years ago!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago) link

morbius, do you live on my street and do i not know it???

i usually do takeout on goulash night; call it in on teh way home from work, pick that shit up and destroy it. i am also a big fan of their mussels.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I used to live over there...back when I had no money and forsaking ramen for a night at the Cornbread Cafe was a HUGE deal. Celebrate good times. I went back there for lunch not long ago and it wasn't so great.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:34 (eighteen years ago) link

i ate at the cornbread cafe about a year ago, and it wasn't that good. overpriced, not-particularly-delicious food. this was lunch, though, and i was hung over.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, probably like all places, they fall off. When I lived there, it was like the only nice place in the area.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

the one thing Cornbread cafe had was killer BBQ wings. now sadly closed.

When we go to Steinhof I call it Cafe Baader-Meinhof and my gf always rolls her eyes.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

also, RIP for Biscuit on Flatbush.

that was a great bbq joint

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

my friend was a manager at biscuit. never heard the story as to why it closed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Biscuit was good, I went there once.

How is Pioneer in Red Hook?

I used to go to Jakes on Columbia. Not the best, but good at times and nice people and at the time it was cool to go all the way down there. Now it's yet another Brooklyn resteraunt row, which brings me to my latest fave....

Pit Stop. French bistro on Columbia. GREAT hamburgers, ratotuille, eggs, merguez etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

pit stop is nice. only had burgers + beers. weird strip there with that out of the way bookstore. I hate that mexican place Alma, everyone big ups it, but I had a horrible meal there and the crowds are a joke.

hstencil, the story I heard re: Biscuit's closing was that the owner just got tired of all the work he had to put into the place. owner is a classically trained French chef and got sick of restaraunt politics so he opened Biscuit. maybe he went back to high cuisine? it was an abrupt end, but they went out on top.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

tell me about this "out of the way bookstore."

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link

YES! I had a terrible time at Alma. Wait. Bad service, annoying crowds, and food that wasn't so special.

The bookstore is very cool, they have readings, sell local chap books, looks like a nice place to hang out and chill, if you're in the area. I've only been in once. Bookstore fans should keep supporting the Community book store on Court St, which is great, as is Book Court further up Court.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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