New York Restaurants

you don't actually need a 'res' there

lol 'teh'

well i'm just worried people are gonna be goin out to eat tomorrow night. places are at least open right? i know restaurants are weird on mondays

just give em a call if you're worried.

i didn't realize you meant for tomorrow so i thought the reservation thing was unnecessary.

ohhh yeah, i don't know what restaurants are like on memorial night. gosh i'm so ready for that dinner tho. haven't had a steak in way too long.

It's a fun place. Lodge is by Taavo Somer, who did Freeman's, too.

Apparently his new thing is maritime. Has anyone been to the Rusty Knot?

Marlow !
Northeast Kingdom!

both in Bklyn

has anyone eaten at Les Halles?

I found the thread

i've never been to les halles but i am reading kitchen confidential and it's making me want all kinds of steak frites

you wont be able to get into marlowe&sons without like at least a 30 min wait unless you get there super early. though its my favorite restaurant in brooklyn by far. there's a super cute chef there too.

Has anyone been to the Rusty Knot?
i went about a month or two ago. was interesting. the decor is like if a midwesterner and a new englander got married and this is their basement. menu has yummy chicken liver and bacon sandwiches, and razor clams, and stuff like that. also $1 plastic cups of busch beer. the crowd is about 1/3 fashion&arts crowd, 1/3 banker dudes, 1/3 curious readers of eater, grub street, gothamist, etc. makes for interesting mix, though later at nite it turns more fashion'y i think

Rusty Knot looks intriguing, though very likely the clientele is annoying.

What is a good alternative to Nathan's in Coney Island? Both restaurants are completely overrun--I had a melt-down in line today and scolded some men who tried to cut. Should I just pick any seaside shack?

Are any of the Brighton Beach restaurants better than any of the others? People watching is so much better in Brighton Beach than in Coney Island these days.

(x-post)

I had a bowl of Borscht in a shady russian restaurant in brighton beach the winter of like 1997, it is good in my memory.

Best eating this time in new york, so far has been on my SO's rooftop. We bought a grill in Home depot and have been grilling all kinds of stuff with awesome sunsets over manhattan.

i went to uncle vanya the other night. cabbage rolls, spinach pancakes w/ caviar... mmmmmmmmm!

Oceanview Cafe on Brighton Beach Ave is very good.

Rusty Knot looks intriguing, though very likely the clientele is annoying.

its probably the only place in town where you'll see a Vogue/CFDA nominated designer, a senior analyist at Goldman & Sachs, and some ho from Long Island coexisting peacefully at the same bar. Anyway, the food is good. It's not a big place though

but if you hate fashion people, rich people, and hos, i'd give the place a wide berth

Everone hates those, around here, ya prick.

bleh

has anyone eaten at Les Halles?

I wouldn't make it a destination. it's near my work so I went there with a buncha work people one time, it's ok but nothing special really

verdict in: i made a reservation at AOC Bistro in Park Slope. if you hate it, don't say so until tomorrow cuz that's just where i'm going.

if you love it please share.

went to ba xuyen in sunset park today for bahn mi...soo good and cheap. i want to have a bahn mi fap so we can have an excuse to order all 8 of their selections (i had a meatball one today which was awesome).

more sunset park recommendations please. so many restaurants on 8th ave that look awesome.

I want to go to Sunset; I just stumbled upon this the other day:

http://bestviewinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2008/05/sunset-parks-chinatown-gets-some-press.html

red bowl on bedford is freaking delicious, and they have the sassiest waitresses in williamsburg

oh and: english people, can you stop going to gordon ramsay's restaurant in the london hotel? kthx

the red bowl??? are you kidding? one of those joints in the 8-restaurant stretch of panasian shitholes??

ba xuyen is incredible. the food is amazing, the prices are insanely low, and the staff are so sweet. aside from the wonderful sandwiches, they have good stuff available in the hot/cold cases.

i've been to pacificana, which is pretty good, but aside from ba xuyen we usually shop in sunset park as opposed to eat. there's a great fresh tofu store, a decent turkish market, lots of small asian groceries (obv), a good dumpling joint (family dumpling), a branch of hong kong supermarket, etc etc. there are a few active threads on c.hound right now about restaurants in the area.

when is oyster fap?

saturday
DEALT

sunset park gave me such a happy feeling. so many families and cute kiddos walking around. we just walked about 10 blocks up from ba xuyen and back (and almost got another sandwich to go...i wish we had!) and bought some pastries along the way. will definitely have to do more exploring.

shit i have 3000 plans on sat (among them an event at franklin park in the afternoon if bell/ian feel like stopping by!)

i could stop by!

i just made that shit up

Sanskrit, the point of the oyster fap is that during happy hour during the workweek, oysters are half price. You can go on Sat and I might even be able to join you but it'll cost ya.

oh rite
do it do fridays then?

i should probably just scroll upthread

ok i just did nix that

LET'S RIDE BIKES

Sunset Park is great. I really like the dim sum at 8th Avenue Seafood Restaurant and it's pretty easy to get in there when the more widely known places like Pacificana are too packed to get near. The people who work there are very kind and generous as well. Another good Chinese restaurant in SP is called Lucky 8--they have great fried rice. Ba Xuyen has the best banh mi in the city and really good spring rolls, ice coffee and avocado shakes.

i noticed the had a durian shake but i was way too scared to try it!

Recommend me some stuff to order at Congee Village. I'm not very experienced with *real* Chinese food.

Durian shake is presumably from frozen durian, which doesn't really have the odor.

I don't really like Congee Village, it's a bit greasy. I would go somewhere else for real Chinese food (unless you want to do karaoke and eat Chinese food at the same venue). Amazing 66 on Mott Street is good, so are any # of intimidating gross looking hole in the wall places on Grand Street/Hester Street/E. Broadway and so on.

I'm *really* into the Lucky King Bakery on Grand Street right now. They have awesome char siu bao, green fried ball things with black sesame and peanuts inside and there's all kinds of dim sum in the steam cupboard behind the counter for like $1.50 each. I just ask them to show me all the stuff in there because I don't know the Chinese names. A full dim sum meal there is like $7! Also, good coffee. They have congee and noodles and Chinese donuts too.

i love lucky king.

wasn't the person who picked CV and it was chosen because we had a large party. Anyway, we ate: snails in black bean sauce, scallops w/ginger and scallion, vegetarian congee, fillet of beef in some kind of sauce, baked rice w/chicken and shitake mushroom, snow pea leaf w/garlic sauce and some kind of soup dumplings. Everything was good.

Tried Northeast Kingdom on saturday and everything was pretty spot on apart from an overcooked piece of salmon (called home smoked on the menu it felt like it had been left on the grill too long). Great house cocktails, would drink many old bushwicks and roof gardens.

Its a little tightly packed in there however this did mean we could earwig the conversation of the gay hipster couple next to us and get an eyeful of the look the older gave to the younger when the younger suggested they get a joint bank account.

Oh, I like that place.

I also like joint bank accounts.

Figaro gone

casting ill health to the wind, i braved the shack, and an hour on a nice night was worth it for a stack

in other news, I now live 2 blocks from a taco truck!