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Where to get a good matzo ball soup?
Just had the matzoh ball soup at Lansky's for lunch today. Soup was incredibly flavorful, with lots of noodles, a pretty good amount of chicken, and two matzoh balls. The matzoh balls themselves were perfectly tender but a little bland -- they seemed to need salt. My husband had the corned beef hash, which he liked a lot, but I took a taste and got a large piece of gristly fat and was turned off.
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Lansky's Old World Deli
235 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10023
Good Beer and a Reasonably Priced Lunch in Theater District
Went to the Brickyard Gastropub yesterday for lunch. Hamburgers were correctly cooked, house-made chips and onion rings were very good, and the beer selection is the best. 25 craft beers on draft -- you really almost can't beat that. If you're a craft beer drinker looking for lunch in the theater district or near Times Square, you could do a lot worse. Lunch special was incredibly reasonable, too -- $10 for a burger, fries or rings, and either a glass of any craft brew or a glass of house wine.
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Brickyard
785 9th Ave, New York, NY 10019
The Algonguin is a joke
Clearly not. We were in the Round Table room last night, and the beer list is a COMPLETE joke. My husband and I were LAUGHING -- there was absolutely no attention paid to it at all. Not a single ale on the menu, no craft selections, and pricing that showed no interest -- how does any restaurant decide that a Heineken and a Corona Ultra should be the same price? Just because they're both bad beers? Why not at least a couple of intelligent choices?
Theater District restaurant specializing in local foods?
We're coming into town to see a friend's daughter in Memphis, and we'd like to have lunch before the Wednesday matinee. I know very little about theater district restaurants, but I'd prefer to stay away from touristy places. Anyone have a lunch recommendation near or nearish the Shubert (225 W 44th)? I'd especially love any that specialize in local foods, but also just anything that's a can't-miss. We like any cuisine done well, and we're not going to freak out over anything under ~$120 or so.
What vintage of used Slow Cooker should I look for?
goodeatsgal, it's billed as a roaster/slow cooker. There is ZERO in the instructions about not leaving it. I don't think I'd set it at 450 and leave the house, but at under 200, I would. It looks EXACTLY like a slow cooker. The only issue is that you have to decide what "low" and "high" temperatures mean. My understanding is that in the UK, which never changed their slowcookers from the original idea, low is probably around 170 and high around 200.
What vintage of used Slow Cooker should I look for?
If you don't need a really small slowcooker, there's a solution in a small "roaster oven." The smallest is 6qts, but you can set it as low as 150, which solves the problem of the newer slow cookers boiling everything. The one I bought is the Nesco 4816-25-30PR Professional 6-Quart Stainless Steel Roaster Oven.
Flying Fish between Savannah and Tybee
My husband and I stopped here for lunch after having read some positive mentions here on this board. The place was empty on a late-June Wednesday just before noon and only two other parties came in while we were there, which was surprising as the place was very pleasant, seems to be well-located, and the prices were reasonable. There's a large covered outdoor eating area that we would have sat on if it hadn't been 90 degrees and 90% humidity.
I'm not a huge fried food eater, but this was clearly a fried seafood place so I went for fried shrimp. It was really excellent -- very lightly battered, fried perfectly. I ate the entire generous portion. My husband had the clams, which were also excellent -- I wish I'd ordered a portion for myself! The cole slaw was delicious, and the cocktail sauce appeared to be homemade.
The french fries, OTOH, seemed to be Sysco-standard frozen ripple-cut fries. Not worth eating. The hush puppies were nothing to write home about and may have been frozen, too, for all I could tell. I didn't care because I got plenty full on the shrimp and cole slaw, but I thought I'd mention it in case such things are important to others.
Definitely worth a visit if you're looking for fried seafood between Savannah and Tybee.
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Flying Fish Bar and Grill
7906 E Hwy 80, Savannah, GA 31410
Only 1 Day in Savannah - Where to Get the Best Lunch?
Is a buffet restaurant a southern thing? I'm from Ohio, and I've always avoided buffets completely (literally cannot remember the last time I went to one), but I see a lot of folks on the SouthEast board here recommend restaurants that are buffet-style.
What can I get in Dayton, OH I can't find in LA?
Wow, I haven't heard about the "old oven." This is true at all the Marion's locations, or just certain ones that have new ovens, or what?
Sundae Cafe on Tybee Island
My husband and I ended up at Sundae Cafe last night (after first dropping in to Outback Cafe across the street and finding it absolutely deserted and smelling strongly of cigarettes.) We got there at 8 (on a Tuesday night) without a reservation and so had to wait half an hour, but the hostess helped make room at the bar.
The beer selection was underwhelming. The only microbrew apparently (bartender was less-than-knowledgeable) was Sweetwater 460, an Atlanta IPA. They were out of Pinot Grigio. (How can you be out of Pinot Grigio? I can see running out of one selection, but ALL your selections?)
The food was worth the wait. I ordered the shrimp and grits appetizer, which I probably wouldn't have done if I'd read a little more closely to see that the shrimp were fried, but they were some of the best fried shrimp I've ever had -- a very light, super crispy batter. The grits had a pepper-cream sauce that was delicious but didn't overwhelm the grits. For dinner I had one of the specials, a lump crab and avocado salad. The ingredients were good and fresh, but the dressing -- which in a simple salad should be perfectly seasoned -- was much too acid. My husband had the seafood mixed grill and absolutely cleaned his plate. The low-country risotto that accompanied it was fantastic, creamy and perfectly seasoned and full of small chunks of seafood.
Definitely worth a visit!
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Sundae Cafe
Highway 80, Tybee Island, GA 31328
Savannah - Tybee top 7
Update on Outback: My husband and I checked out Outback Cafe on Tybee...at 8 o'clock on a Tuesday night mid-June 2010 it was absolutely empty, there was a sign up saying "No Server, See Bartender" and the place smelled strongly of cigarettes. We went across the street to the Sundae Cafe, which was so busy we had to wait half an hour to be seated.
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Outback Cafe
725 1st St, Tybee Island, GA 31328
Tybee Island Social Club on Tybee Island, GA
New this month to Tybee Island is a worth-a-visit "taqueria" (hate to call it that, but the menus is all tacos) with some ambition.
On a weekday recently we walked in as the place opened for lunch and ordered a couple of fish tacos and a glass of wine for me, beer for him. The beer selection satisfied my difficult husband, who would have liked to have seen more craft choices (he's not a fan of IPA or Weiss beers) but happily settled for a Negro Modelo. I went with the menu's wine rec for the fish taco (can't remember the name now) which was pricey ($9) but excellent. I'd have had a second glass if we were staying.
You order inside at the counter and they give you a table marker, then bring you your drinks and food. We sat outside (getting just a whiff of garbage being blown onto the patio from three cans beside the patio by humongo fans) on the shady-from-noon-onwards covered porch and were very comfortable on a 90+ and typically humid June day.
The tacos were smallish for the price (~$4.50) but excellent. I'd asked the counter/waitress if a single taco was enough for lunch and she'd said yes. In my case (I'm a small 50-yo woman and not a huge eater) it was enough, especially with a glass of wine, because they were so luscious -- pear chutney on my fish taco, the thick (handmade? didn't think to ask) tortilla freshly fried, the fish a nice large grilled chunk. But it was definitely a smallish taco. My husband, also not a huge eater, could happily have eaten a second. So YMMV.
They were advertising a Wino Wednesday with 8 - 10 tastings (of Argentinian and Chilean this week) dishes and accompanying wines for $35, and hubs and I will probably go back to try it. Definitely an upscale addition for Tybee.
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Tybee Island Social Club
1311 Butler Ave, Tybee Island, GA 31328
What can I get in Dayton, OH I can't find in LA?
Dewey's is our first choice where we live now in Cincinnati, but when we come "home" we always have to have Marion's. Even my kids, who were raised in Cincinnati, consider Marion's a treat.
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Marion's Piazza
8991 Kingsridge Dr, Dayton, OH 45458
Dewey's Pizza
7767 Kenwood Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45236
In for three days, can't figure out what 'neighborhood' Hotel Intercontinental is in -- help?
Thanks, all, for the help! Our Boston trip was fantastic -- we ate at Hamersley's, Ten Tables Cambridge, and Oleana, and dropped in to Craigie on Main for craft cocktails. Terrific three days!
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Oleana
134 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Craigie on Main
853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Ten Tables
5 Craigie Circle, Cambridge, MA 02138
Only 1 Day in Savannah - Where to Get the Best Lunch?
Thanks, Buddha!
It's the lines that I can't deal with. A restaurant has to be EXTREMELY worth visiting before I'll stand in line for the privilege of giving them my money. :) That said, if the line is somehow part of the experience, I'll take that into consideration. And if I can arrive well before I want to eat and get a seat at the bar and spend my time in line -there-, then all bets are off. :D But if what I can get at Mrs. Wilkes is basically what I could get at any number of places plus bragging rights, I'm a little lukewarm on it.
One of my husband's coworkers recommended we stop in her hometown, Sylvania, on our way home (we drive right past it on the way back to Cincinnati if we avoid I-95) and order the fried chicken at Pop's Kitchen.
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Pop's Kitchen
109 Mims Rd, Sylvania, GA 30467
What can I get in Dayton, OH I can't find in LA?
Great story! I'll acknowledge it's possible my preference is personal (my husband worked at both back in high school and has multiple stories about the profound difference in quality including things like Marion's specifying all pieces of pepperoni must touch each other while Cassano's specified one finger's width between pepperoni slices), but Cassano's to me doesn't resemble Marion's in the least, either in sauce flavor or in crust taste/texture.
Macelwees on Tybee Island?
Savdoug, thanks! We're actually practically right next to Tybee Island Social Club -- we're in a cottage at 12th and Lovell -- and we walked past it yesterday morning on our way to Breakfast Club, which we had gotten a rec from here and did enjoy.
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Breakfast Club
1500 Butler Ave, Tybee Island, GA 31328
The best diner in the South
Hate to ask for clarification on a ten-year-old post, but just in case...by "yellow summer squash" do you mean what we here in SW Ohio think of as "like zucchini, but yellow" ?
Help with Savannah restaurants
Littleman, that person's visit to Local 11ten -- was that since the new chef, do you know?
REVIEW Crab Shack on Tybee Island
Dreadful experience. We knew this place was strictly for tourists, but we let ourselves be dragged here by family members we're travelling with who had been told by (tourist) friends that they HAD to go to the Crab Shack. We thought about sending our kids with them and heading to AJ's Dockside ourselves, but we would have had to switch cars to make everything fit and then my daughter couldn't find much that was vegetarian on the online menu and didn't want to be stuck there for hours...at any rate, we went. So FWIW, here's our review.
You drive down a side street and park under trees, then line up at a stand. After we gave our names to the cowhand...er, hostess, we watched other peoples' children tease the alligators by hanging empty feeding poles near them and laughing when the gators went for the empty clips. When our beeper went off, we were seated inside, which is an enormous high-ceilinged screened porch. It unfortunately didn't have the feel of a screened porch -- it felt like eating under a bleachers. Maybe the ambiance is better outside under the trees. If you go, order the simplest-to-prepare thing you can, as they do know how to steam seafood. The shrimp were correctly cooked and very good while the 'devilled crab' tasted like crab-flavored greasy breadcrumbs. For vegetarians there's a cheese pizza and sides of cole slaw and corn, and that is literally it, so if you have a vegetarian in your party they are probably not going to be happy.
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Crab Shack
40 Estill Hammock Rd # A, Tybee Island, GA 31328
Macelwees on Tybee Island?
Can anyone tell me anything about this place? I'm here with family and my inlaws' recommendations from a friend were Crab Shack and Macelwees. Which doesn't bode well but I thought I'd ask! Thanks for any help!
Savannah -- Has anyone eaten at Local 11ten since new chef was hired?
We're in the area for a week -- has anyone eaten at Local 11ten since Brandy Williamson was hired last month? Any advice?
Lunch in Dayton OH near I-75/I-70 interchange
It's a bit of a hike from the interchange -- seriously, there's very little in the way of good food on the north side, it's all on the south side and to the east -- but for something very interesting that includes good choices for vegetarians, El Meson is about ten miles from the interchange, but it's RIGHT off the highway on I-75 just south of Dayton.
http://www.elmeson.net/
What can I get in Dayton, OH I can't find in LA?
OMG, please don't even mention Marion's and Cassano's in the same sentence. Marion's is Dayton-style pizza. Cassano's is the same crap served by any dozen small chains the country over.
Only 1 Day in Savannah - Where to Get the Best Lunch?
Littleman, why do you recommend skipping Mrs. Wilkes'? We'd been considering it but wondered if it sounded a little more touristy-atmospheric than truly-local-flavor. :)
Lighthouse Pizza on Tybee Island GA: Excellent crust, fantastic microbrews list
We walked here last night from the cottage we are renting on Tybee after a looooong drive from Cincinnati. We had very low expectations -- the other "restaurants" on the street are really just bars, some complete with pool tables, tattooed biker patrons and Eau de Ashtray -- and we were so pleasantly surprised with our meal. The crust was really one of the best I've had -- tender-chewy & flavorful -- and my husband was in ecstasy over the craft/microbrews list.
The bad: My son had one of the hoagies and wasn't impressed with the bun. Very little choice for the wine-drinker. Casual in the extreme -- we ate off styrofoam plates with plastic utensils, and my kids served themselves their drinks from the pop machine. Immediate area is pretty crappy -- it's the route to the main boardwalk, so it's all souvenir shops, bars, cheapo hotels.
http://www.lighthousepizza.net/
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Lighthouse Pizza
15 Tybrisa St, Tybee Island, GA 31328
In for three days, can't figure out what 'neighborhood' Hotel Intercontinental is in -- help?
Thank you, Pemma! I'll include all those neighborhoods in our search, and check out Sel de la Terre!
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Sel de la Terre
1245 Worcester Street, Natick, MA 01760
In for three days, can't figure out what 'neighborhood' Hotel Intercontinental is in -- help?
DH and I are in Boston next week for three days. We're at the Intercontinental and are making plans for dinners. Saturday is Hamersley's, and I'm looking for other choices for Thursday and Friday. We'd like not to spend half an hour in a taxi, and I don't know the locations of various Boston neighborhoods well enough to do a search at Open Table.
Can someone give me some help -- what Open Table neighborhoods are near the HI?
Suggestions for dining near the HI would also be greatly appreciated. Last time we were in Boston we did Craigie on Main and Oleana, liked them both very much. Also did Neptune Oyster for lunch one day. Always especially interested in any chefs who make a real effort to source locally.
Thanks!
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Neptune Oyster
63 Salem St Ste 1, Boston, MA 02113
Oleana
134 Hampshire St., Cambridge, MA 02139
Craigie on Main
853 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
