New York Restaurants

i mean, like, "go tell me where the best dumplings are" not "go is the name of a great dumpling restaurant"

deez dumplings

dunno about best but this place is good and crazy cheap

http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/Dumpling-House/

Super Taste on Eldridge, while justifiably known primarily for their excellent noodles, makes damn good dumplings.

dumpling house 2nded

are you talking specifically east asian dumplings btw or should this be opened up to the int'l dumpling family eg pierogi, ravioli, etc

if someone wants to rec a place for pierogis thatd be rad

deez dumplings

i went to le grand dakar last week. it was friendly and nice, but a little fusiony? i've had more authentic senegalese on 116th, but maybe that's because i was with a wolof speaker? i am now curious whether yolele! recipes are authentic or not. dude has been winning mad awards for it.

I think we shd drink sometime near Dumpling House.

Vatan place looks very awesome, will def check out when I'm there!

Has anyone been to Melba's in Harlem? Also the woman and I went to African Kine last weekend and it was... OK...

shanghai cafe on mott has good soup dumplings.

tried hancos yesterday - def pwns nickys

Shanghai Cafe and Joe's Shanghai are the two classics, but I prefer the Caf for the surly punk-rock-haircut butch waitresses who bark at you. And for the seaweed soup.

you know who has good soup dumplings? M Shanghai in williamsburg. You get your punk-rock waiters there for real.

m shanghai is totally good

yeah, best chinese in wburg afaik.

any recommendations for casual, fairly cheap places for a big group w/ a wide range in ages? places like otto and kefi are good models for what im looking for...

ability to make reservations preferred

what neighborhood

"manhattan"

accessible from 4/5/6 is best i guess?

whats the occasion

friends bday, parents are coming to town, grandmother will be in attendance

u gonna recommend a restaurant or just ask questions

whatre u going to wear

dunno yet, prob nice jeans, sweater, collared shirt, havent decided abt the shoes, either clarks or oxfords

are they really questions if not properly punctuated?

that question is beyond the purview of this thread

i tend to speak w/o the question mark tho - im like the opposite of an uptalker?

how about you uptalk your way into a restaurant recommendation

thinking...

Kefi or Otto I don't know about, but consider:
Five Points
Cacio e Pepe
Paladar or Zarela
Blue Smoke
Turkish Kitchen or Sahara's Turkish Cuisine (Beyoglu and Sip Sak will probably kick you out as fast as possible)
Giorgio's of Gramercy
Uva

Wow, doing the whole farmer's feast at Blue Hill Stone Barns is so totally totally amazing. Meal was even much better than the last one I had, and I liked the fact that they've gone strictly tasting menu so you just get a bunch of surprises. I wouldn't have thought I would want to eat asparagus more than once in the same meal or that it could be so good, or that raw fennel would make a delicious appetizer. I also liked what felt like an even heavier emphasis on vegetables than last time. At one point they shaved some sort of semi-preserved embryonic egg onto our food, which was a little strange and excessive for me but still tasty.

so jeal

I drank a gin cocktail with a pickled ramp in it. So aws

are people excited about checkers?
http://www.brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2009/06/streetlevel_che_5.php

i went to saraghina last night in bed stuy on the corner of halsey & lewis (1 block away from me)--really delicious pizza for great prices, still byob, and a really amazing space

I'm kinda psyched for the Checkers since it's around the corner from school/home. Granted I haven't had Checkers in like 8 years so I don't know if it's as good as I remember.

Meanwhile, seeing as I practically work in Chinatown, any Chinatown recs for lunch? So far I've tried Excellent Dumpling House (very good) and Tasty Dumpling (meh), and I'm already a fan of Vegetarian Dim Sum House on Pell. I also tried some Pho shop that was meh.

noodles at super taste (eldrige just south of canal) are the best.

soup dumplings at joe's on pell st or shanghai cafe on mott st.

also, the bahn mi at the jewelry shop on mott st just south of broome are v good.

Man, Chinatown is so friggin huge.

Forget about it Jack.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/dining/22pizza.html

O_o

that was some good pizza. RIP.

if you ever find yourself on the UWS around brunch time hit up Calle Ocho and get drunk on unlimited sangrias for the price of an entrée.

I can't pretend I didn't eat at Joe Jr's maybe once a month mostly because of the convenient location and cuz I could sit at the same half-table near the door that John Waters liked, but I'll still miss it.

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/07/joe-jr-closing-greenwich-village-nyc.html

http://evgrieve.com/2009/07/joe-jrs-has-closed.html

has anyone tried the $1 oyster mondays at Wombat on grand street in brookyln?
It's around the corner from my apartment, and it is monday. I am thinking about it.

never on a sunday or a monday, dude

I just tried to place Grand St in relation to my apartment in my head, until I remembered that you moved. World so much less disjointed now.