New York Restaurants

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.

they say never but i say "i've been okay this far."

(p.s. i also beat slightly pink pork.)

http://i31.tinypic.com/2ed9zpz.jpg :(

;_;

sux cuz the wburg location is overrun with douchenozzles 24/7.

the wburg one is supposed to close also. the same people are apparently opening something else in the ft green location.

RIP bonita u will be hella missed--ur tacos were subpar but ur specials were always excellent--and u even made good tequila cocktails--see u in heavan

i really liked going there for micheladas in the summer.

finally had one of those spicy cumin lamb hamburgers at the flushing mall basement. Pretty damn good.

bourdain went there on his show. these things look great.want!

wanna give a shout out to my girl waiting tables at Paul's, da Burger Joint. You are everything you need to be and more, never change.

u guys should know who i mean. tobacco rasp, yankees fan, LOVES pink floyd.

xposted from chicago thread, wasn't sure where to put this

http://www.seriouseats.com/2009/09/serious-eats-is-bringing-hot-dougs-to-nyc-oct.html

one night only? sold out? dude just needs to open a joint here tbh.

since they sold out of $65 tickets, I'm sure he will before long

they don't serve beer here though, that is an interesting addition

duck fat fries are not worth the hype imo