DAN SELZER, TOTALLY NOT BUMMING, RATES NYC EAT SPOTS

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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

Krupa, believe it or not they have used records. not many and nothing good though.

this is what I find on smalltownbrooklyn:

FreeBird
used book store
718 596 2087
123 Columbia St

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Ian, I thought we established that you live down the hill from me, I think. (I'm next to the new pizza/Italian place that you can't get a table in after 6pm.) Yeah, Cornbread really fell off the table the last year or two.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 February 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i have no memory, morbsss.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 16 February 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link

holy crap look what i just found:

http://menu.myelinate.com/map/

fuxxors need to get on top of BK tho

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Jamaican walk-in spot near Wash SQ irie

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

mirchi all you can eat lunch buffet!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 February 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

good washington sq place: kathi roll company. or karthi or whatever.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Saturday, 18 February 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago) link

and around the corner...Indian Bread Company. Same basic idea.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

the texas cheesecake depository

― Lenny and Squiggy Present Lenny and the Squigtones (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 18 February 2006 01:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Doyers Vietnamese Restaurant on Doyers st. in Chinatown is fantastic.

― Chris Williams (cdwill), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Mingala over in the Est villages

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

almost HAd to stop into yeah shanghai delux on bayard for soup dumplings yesterday...but held off

― bb (bbrz), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Mee Noodle Shop: why did you burn down?

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan

Nha Trang on Baxter and Canal

Steve

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah Shanghai Deluxe was the first NYC cHinese I ever tasted and let me tell you, it left a good impression. Also classic: their interior decoration (fake trees, a little stream w/ a bridge)

― VIDEO STRESS (blastocyst), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

DISCUS

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 February 2006 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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