New York Restaurants

o hey he also bigs up Pam Real Thai in that article

lol "bigs up"

I order whoppers jr.

yeah, who knows. i just ignore stuff like that. we've never gone somewhere recc'd by him and been disappointed.

Our last Sietsema rec was a little weird but good overall - a little South Indian/Indo-Chinese dive here in Jersey City. We were the only people in there. The sauce for the goat was awesome but the meat was kind of dry. He also put us on a great Egyptian fish place in the same part of town. He's made quite a few trips to JC, which I do appreciate.

<i>was there anything good at Brooklyn Museum? we almost went yesterday but decided to wait for the Murakami to open</i>

Yeah, I went for "Goodbye Coney Island" in the storage area. Very small, but very good, if you like that sort of thing. I also saw the "Utagawa" Japanese prints exhibit. This will still be up when Murakami opens. That was good too--they had a lot of prints that you don't come across everyday, from Wisconsin I think. I guess that and Murakami are going to tie in with the cherry blossoms in Prospect Park. They're going to charge for the Murakami exhibit though:(

OYSTER FAP PEOPLE
OYSTER FAP

yes please.

i might try ippudo tonight. has anyone been yet?

also oyster fap ASAP!

I would like oyster FAP.

agreed.

i tried to go to ippudo last week but it was an hour wait around 12:45pm. went to setagaya instead, so no big loss.

oh, fyi - prospect park residents, the ny sun (venerable rag that it is) declared vanderbilt "desolate" in a piece on weather up/brooklyn cocktail bars.

And may they continue to think so.

wait til they see washington!

the non-noodle food at momofuku n.b. really is much better, by the way. we had a late bday lunch their last week (the day after the ippudo denial), and it was great: pork belly buns, grilled beef tongue, rice cakes with oxtail ragu, and a korean-style cold noodle dish that was way better than their attempt at ramen. also, they have the most amazing soft serve. it's basically frozen custard.

wau that all sounds delicious. i want to try the tasting menu at ssam bar with all the pork.

if you go all the way down to the korean place on vanderbilt you cross like one deadish block and end up catty-corner to an empty lot that's been bought up for atlantic yards. but lol @ a street with three yuppie coffee shops being desolate.

supposedly that one white-picket-fence storefront (used to be a cutesy pet store) is going to be some kind of hipster country western bar serving tex-mex food (owned by same ppl as Beast). sounds kinda bad but I'll keep an open mind until it opens.

Yeah, the soft-serve is phenomenal. I agree about the non-noodle stuff being better than the noodles. Ramen was the least exciting thing we tried.

oh, fyi - prospect park residents, the ny sun (venerable rag that it is) declared vanderbilt "desolate" in a piece on weather up/brooklyn cocktail bars.

It was their first week open to the public when I went, but weather up kind of sucked.

all the bars on vanderbilt are pretty meh.

though i haven't been to weather up yet.

I'm like Soda at all times except late-night, and I'm quite happy with Barette but that's cos of K***leen probably.

the $12 cocktail place that opened on grand st in wburg (huckleberry) kind of sucks, too. likewise, we were there opening week so who knows how things have developed but the drinks were pretty poorly mixed (and cheesy atmosphere to boot).

does she even still work there? she mentioned it to me once and i went...

the drinks were pretty poorly mixed (and cheesy atmosphere to boot)

I'm not gonna completely go to bat for weather up but this makes huckleberry sound much worse

like i said, first week so perhaps things improved. guy had to consult the menu to make my order, though, which shouldn't happen at the level they aim for. some weird layout decisions with the space, and i didn't care for a lot of the fixtures.

I think she works on Tuesdays, bell. And she DJed on a recent Wednesday, that was really enjoyable and slightly crazy.

hipster country western bar

^^^ better than barrette, surely. please to be new home of freddy's bluegrass nights.

hey that's my friend waiting tables in the mas review! having worked at a few fine dining restos in new york (and, briefly, at mas) this line in the review made me cringe:

But on the second of the recent occasions when I tried this dish, it had an overly tart, vinegary dimension, which spoke to the kitchen’s occasionally odd calibrations. For instance a tomato confit stuffed with pine nuts had been hit with so much fennel pollen that in some bites, fennel was all that registered.

that's the kind of thing the chef will be like, "DONT TAKE THAT TO THE TABLE THERES TO MUCH FENNEL" and you're like 'uhggghggg no one carrreess.'

maybe you should have listened to the chef?

i had brunch at freeman's last weekend. the skillet w/ eggs, spinach, bacon and gruyere was remarkably bland, but the cheese gritz were yum and textured while super smooth!

x-post: yea, the best waiters are always foodies. 'i WILL not serve that,' etc. my first day at Mas a guy from the coffee company came to teach us how best to froth the milk on a cappucino haha.. good management, i'm glad they're doing well. (also, one of the waitresses there is the tattooed girl from the orgy scene in Shortbus.)

why so much talk about OTTO? If one wants Batali and Babbo's is too expensive, go to LUPA (although he has the least input there of any of his nyc restaurants). or just go for the tartufo. mmmmm..

lupa is yum!

the food was good, but lupa's menu pissed me off. if you use so many obscure italian food phrases that your menu requires a full-page glossary, then you are trying too hard

harumph

i think the glossary is probably intended to be educational/proselytizing more than included out of necessity

lupa is one of my favorites, and all things considered i actually prefer it to babbo based on my one meal at the latter. there was so much talk about otto because a few people asked about it.

on to more pressing matters: oyster fap! come on!

just name the place and time!

i'm thinking 68... next week sometime? thurs?

guys has anyone been to ippudo yet?
i think i'm going tonight.

i want the ramen NOW

what do people think of the SHAKE SHACK?

i have still never been ;_;

it is great but the lines are insane

as can be seen here

lol the vps at wifey's company force their interns to get in oine and fetch them shake shack
me i've never had

also, no disrespect Ed, but every time i open this thread i see:

Court Square Diner, Court Square, LIC by PS1

-- Ed (dali), Monday, March 10, 2003 9:36 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

and smack myself on the forehead

Gothamist loves shake shack therefore it is for boring people

Shake Shack's food isn't amazing, but it's yummy enough and not too expensive, and you can't beat the scenery. An event on the green augments the experience, but can make waiting on line even more frustrating.

the key is to send someone through the short line to fetch beers that you drink while you're waiting in the long line

I've gone at 7pm a few times and never had to wait more than 25 or 30 minutes. burgers are grate.

there's shake shack set to open on the UWS by the natural history museum, but I think it's been postponed for awhile. suppose I will drag my lazy housebound butt over there to try it when it does.