Hi
Cooking for 40 on Saturday and want the perfect brioche style burger bun for burgers and pulled pork. Bread and Cie do a good one but can anyone else recommend any others that are available in North County?
Thanks
Rich

Hi

Dined at Ink last night - a fantastic meal and my wife loved it. If you are going there you should definitely try the carrot dish and the poutine....but everything was really good.

Rich

Giuseppinas is a great suggestion, I've been waiting for it to open for a while now! Do you know if it is as difficult to get a Table as it is at Lucali's?

Thanks for the suggestions. To give you some more context....

When I lived in Park Slope I liked the following: Lucali, DiFara, Franny's, The Farm on Adderley, The Grocery, Frankies 457, The Vanderbilt, La Villa, Al di La, Song.....are all some of the places we used to eat in regularly. I'm a trained chef, mid-thirties and love all cuisines and happy to go to a dive or Michelin starred place.....the food is more important to me than the ambiance on this trip.

Is there a pizza that rivals Lucali? I'm a pizza fanatic so if there is anything close I would definitely give it a try.

Colonie and Battersby sound like great options. It's hard to decide between going back to an old favorite or trying somewhere new...

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Lucali
575 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

Frankies 457 Spuntino
457 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

La Villa
261 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Di Fara Pizza
1424 Avenue J, Brooklyn, NY 11230

Al Di La
248 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Franny's
295 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

The Grocery
288 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY 11231

The Farm on Adderley
1108 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11218

Song
295 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215

The Vanderbilt
570 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Hi
I moved from Brooklyn 18 mths ago and will be back for a couple of days next week. Are there any new restaurants that have opened in the past 18 mths which you think I should definitely try? Anywhere but Williamsburg as I will be staying in Carroll Gdns.

Thanks
Rich

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for your advice. After sending a begging email to Ink they called to say that they actually had three tables available! So persistence paid off this time.
We will still check out all of the other suggestions for our next visit , in May. Thanks everyone...

Thanks for all of the suggestions! Have any of you been to the Royce at the Langham lately? The latest reviews on Yelp are pretty brutal....

I have sent a begging email to Ink, so we'll see if they have a space open up. It's the night before Valentine's night so I'm guessing they will be really busy.

I'll work through your recommendations and see which look best.....

I am looking to take my wife to LA for a 'romantic' (nice hotel and great food, not cheesey, no flowers required!) Monday night. We recently moved from New York to San Diego and dont know the LA dining scene at all. I had wanted to take her to Ink (she isa huge top chef fan) but I can't get a reservation. Does anyone have any suggestions on a hotel and restaurant pairing? It could be a restaurant in a hotel (not usually my preference) or within a 15 min cab ride. She is a pescatarian so no steak houses or offal specialists I'm afraid. Dinner can be super relaxed to relatively classy, just not overly formal and stuffy, or filled with 'expense account diners' please. We can stay in any area of LA and dont really want to spend more than $300 on the room and less than $100 per head on dinner. All cuisines considered.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Rich

Senate looks great! Considering we are coming from Southern California we should probably try that rather than the Mexican of Nada! Thanks so much for the suggestions.

great, thanks. I don't mind trendy so we will give it a go!!

We are heading to Cincinatti for a wedding this weekend. Are there any places or foods that we absolutely have to try? We will be staying downtown...

Thanks
Rich

i've got about 40 of them left to write about but i'm happy to send you what i've done so far. A friend is supposed to be putting together a website for it hopefully, so i'll send a link for that as well when i'm finished. I'm at richard_hobart@hotmail.com. drop me a line and i'll send you the pdf over. they're not actually my recommendations (although the ones i have been to i would completely agree with) but were the recommendations of 50 chefs and professional foodies, so I think they should all be pretty sound. it's un-edited so far, so there might be a few mistakes. I'd welcome any feedback though.....

that's great, thanks so much for the help. I've been to Vietnam and Singapore and loved the food there so i'm hoping HK will be just as exciting.

If you ever need recommendations for NYC let me know. I'm just finishing a guide to the favorite restaurants of the chefs and faculty at the FCI, so I have about 250 great restaurants, across all cuisines.

Hi

I'm stopping in HK for 3 days on my way to Sydney, I'm a recent graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York, and to my shame, know very little about Chinese/HK food because I spent the last 12 years living in London (where we're not known for great Chinese food).

There are loads of great posts on restaurants to try but I would love to learn more about ingredients and local specialities from someone local. Does anyone know of any good, credible market tours or gastro-tourist type tours? The last time anyone asked was a year ago and nobody seemed to know of anything definite. I'd really appreciate any advice you can give me. Thanks

Rich