New York Restaurants

there is no intersection of graham and union - i think you mean metropolitan, but i see the name of the place in the window of your other pic - daniella. i have walked past there many times since i live at that stop :)

also ty for suggestion... i'm torn between someplace around me that i know is good and someplace near bedford bc i want to go shoe shopping afterwards. at any rate, i must be off to the greenmarket now before it's too late.

I should have known that my description was going to turn out to be wrong in some way; I wish it hadn't been failing to correct the error in the very first sentence once I had, indeed, reminded myself that it was Metropolitan Avenue.

wow I went shoe shopping on Bedford Ave! (at least I can't get that one wrong.) with Tokyo Rosemary's assistance. but I imagine that you will be spending a lot more cash than I did.

I have been in Daniella to get coffee. Now I think I will try the breakfast.

Thursday is very good for me for Thai--anyone else want in? PF, I thought that you wrote "Tokyo Rosemary's assistant" and I thought, TR must be doing very well for herself these days:)

Yes, I went with Tokyo Rosemary's Assistants, plural - there are seven of them, each only about 3-4 feet high, and they sing while doing handicrafts.

ty for the description, the pinefox

has anyone been to park side in corona en route to shea? i have a feeling there are places i'd rather eat, but that my friend would like it.

i have been there. it is not bad, but not OMG SPECTACULAR. big selection iirc. it is big, so there is not a wait to be seated (i was there at brunch time).

yeah, that's what i figured, thanks

Just had lunch at Eleven Madison Park. DEEEEElicious.

Me:
Sweetbread ravioli with chorizo and a butter foam.
Lamb sausage
Poached Peach

$24 for restaurant week. SO GOOD.

kuma inn BYOB. i'll have to remember that.

pretty sure they're not byob. how old is that review

-- dmr, Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:04 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Link

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I was wrong btw, their paperwork lapsed and they are BYOB until they get their license back

woah your rest. week lunch was way better than mine, phil!!

kuma inn was yum!

also: roll call for woodside thai later this week? thurs, fri or sat?

Phil that sounds awesome.

yeah the only places i'll go have a RW meal are the Danny Meyer places, but the reservations go in like the first 2 mins of the day. EMP, Gramercy Tavern, Union Sq Cafe, are my faves. The Modern and Tabla are nice too

They don't skimp on ingredients like most places (mixed green salad or soup? chicken breast or farmed salmon? gee thanx). I mean they skimp a little since hell its only $24. The lamb sausage I had was fantastic, but the other main course options were a poussin (cornish game hen) or maybe it was poulard or maybe it was just chicken breast... And also a roasted squash, and finally a piece of skate... mostly cheap'ish stuff. The app choices were a sorta-ceviche'ish salmon on an asparagus veloute, bluefin tuna tartare with heirloom tomatoes, and something else. I had the sweetbread ravioli which was SO GOOD.

where did you go, tehresa?

offal is my kind of skimping.

i went to blue water grill (mediocrity revealed above in this thread)

also if you go to one of the good woodside thai places, try to get:

kûng châe náam plaa - its raw shrimp marinated in fish sauce, lime juice, chili, and garlic. its VERY spicy and VERY garlicky and VERY delicious.

ohhh blue water grill.. its one of those stephen hanson B.R. Guest restaurants. very corporate. not surprised you had a mediocre RW lunch

at sripraphai my favorite dishes are the crispy watercress salad and the crispy pork & chinese broccoli

Where in New York can I get a Francesinha?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesinha

I was going to suggest the Ironbound District in Newark, but this seems a bit closer:

http://www.luxuryweb.com/html/alfama.html

Onoy on the brunch menu apparently.

if anyone lives in or around ft. greene/clinton hill, chez lola is really nice, and the garden is cute.

That isn't terribly far from me.
But the first review on Yelp calls it "tasteless cat food." (which might be better than tasty catfood.)

What did you eat that you liked?

i think i will go to sripraphai tomorrow :D

i can't help but notice that the "tasteless cat food" poster failed to cite any specific examples.

lol. it's not tasteless cat food! the lamb tagine is delish, and once i had this amazing halibut/some sort of white fish. i'm going tonight, will report back.

went to srip last night, I go a lot because I live 10 blocks away. I like most of the thai in the area...poodams, zabb, nusara, chao, arunee etc. My favorite dishes at Srip now are the sweet sausage salad appetizer, it's sweet sausage served with mint, basil, onions, cucumber, tomato in a spicy chili sauce and may be the best thing I've ever eaten.

I'm also obsessed with their Massaman chicken which is unlike any others I've seen elsewhere. It's big chunks of stewed chicken, sometime on the bone, that just falls apart, not like the standard little bits of chicken at most other places.

ok, reporting back: it was the salmon that i had at Chez Lola, and i had it again, and it was lovely. it was served in a flaky something or other, so if you're not into the breaded thing, it's not for you. also the empinada appetizers are great. i heard very good things about the tuna, the pork chops and the salmon burger is always great.

+ pear martini in the garden = heavenly :D

i had a pear martini in a garden (well, backyard) the other night. it was ok.

pear martinis:men::pomegranate martinis:women?

So recommend me some good cheap places to eat within a reasonable walk of Brooklyn Heights/Borough Hall, and maybe also a couple of more expensive but highly worth it places.

real men don't drink flavored martinis (but we will mix them for the ladies)

flavored "martinis" aren't martinis.

There are only two sweet drinks I like: mojito and bourbon/ginger.

Most sweet cocktails seem to me like an excuse to spend a lot of money on something that sounds sophisticated but goes down easy as a slurpee.

I mean nothing wrong with "goes down easy" - but save yourself the trouble and just have a mid-shelf vodka with juice.

mmm

I agree w/tehresa. lol chocolate drop "martinis". what's next? peanut butter martinis? tofu martinis? ugh.

polish potato vodka martini w/french fry stirrer

although my friend's mom infuses her own vodka, so you can makes lemon martinis etc. that qualify as real martinis, just with some flava.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/hedonisticpleasureseeker/humor/martinihumor3.jpg

i would like to try making some infusions, but i don't really care for vodka. i generally drink gin martinis.

real men don't drink flavored martinis

yeah, i'm not a real man, but i just wanted to try the pear cider in the thing.

i think i'd like a pear drink as long as it was not too sweet. i had one at cafeteria once that was ok, but could have been less sweet.

yeah the one i had last night was really not that sweet, which is why i liked it. and it had a bit of cinnamon on the rim which gave it some spice.

Maya is a wonderful, if expensive, haute Mexican place on the southern tip of the Upper East Side. One of NY's better restaurants

Cool - we're going there for my wife's birthday. I like pretty much all Mexican food from cheap & authentic to cheap & inauthentic to the more expensive varieties.

did I say that? i don't know about the latter statement, but it's definitely good and interesting, though I dunno the impact of the guy's opening an SF (?) place.

I think that was you, yes. No back-pedaling now. "One of NY's better restaurants" only means in the top 50th percentile right?

it probably meant higher than that, but i imagine it's still the best haute mex in NY. consider getting the huitlacoche dumplings.