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Eccles in Manhattan?
If you can make it one stop on the L to Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, Saltie has them to go: http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/saltie/menus/main.html
Donuts
So glad you enjoyed it! I also like old-fashioned donuts, and think the real standouts at Peter Pan are the sour cream, chocolate cake and old-fashioned glazed. Amazing.
Weekend Breakfast/Brunch Near the Grand Street Stop of the L Train in East Williamsburg
Harefield Road is over there, as is Sel de Mer and Mesa Coyoacan. Haven't had brunch at any of those, so can't vouch though.
Looking for Red Velvet Cake
Cake man raven is the best rv cake I've had. Doesn't have coconut though.
Brooklyn source of active dry yeast in a jar?
Meat Hook in Williamsburg has vacuum sealed packs.
Best Brownie in NYC
Never tried it! How about the sweet and salty brownie from Baked?
Most adventurous food in NY
It is pretty bananas. I've only been on a weekday, when it was relatively mellow, but I understand it gets pretty rowdy on weekends; which only adds to the mayhem. Watching a sizzling octopus perish and a live lobster clap its claws for the last time is really quite a spectacle.
Most adventurous food in NY
The sizzling fish skillet at Sik Gaek. You are presented with an enormous skillet of live-ish sea creatures who die before your eyes...and then you eat them.
http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2011/02/flushing-sannakji-live-octopus-at-sik-gaek.html
A neutral bar with great microbrews to watch the UEFA Champion's League final in Brooklyn?
Loreley in Williamsburg is great. Not tons of microbrews, but really good German beer selection and delicious weisswurst, pretzels, etc. Buuut, not close to the B, D or F unless you transfer to the G.
Paris trip report, 2011 holidays
yeah, the vin rouge has clouded my memories a bit...as I recall it was closed 24 and 25 december, open after. the night we went was really convivial (maybe it is like that every night?) and we loved it.
Smorgasburg: What a Pretentious Rip Off.....
Wow, S'burg is really getting a flogging here! It's really not quite so bad. Like anything, there is good stuff and bad stuff. AsiaDog, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Porchetta, Milk Truck and Blue Marble are consistently good. It's nice to be able to see new chefs experiment; and if it's not tasty, I think it rightly fails; saving everyone's money and tastebuds.
My personal grouse is that too many of the stands offer primarily meat, cheese, or fried foods. Would love some other alternatives.
It's nice to be on the grassy part of the lawn near the sun and see people enjoying themselves. If only there was beer.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
Ditto!
Pulqueria early review -- So far so good (longish)
All I had there was cocktails and the prices were seriously extortionate.
wd-50 - any recent reports, ideally from those who've been to other modernist spots.
We must have been close to you, Foody4life!
My husband and I had a grand time. We had 4 appetizers, 1 entree and 3 desserts, which was about perfect.
From the start, the service was really excellent. Our waiter was patient, helpful and attentive, without being overly so. We asked if we could have the everything bagel and the poached egg in the shell and he graciously obliged. The bagel was a delight, just a wee bit tiny. The poached egg looked just beautiful, but I didn't totally love the flavor combination of poached egg and caesar dressing.
Those 2 apps were followed by cold fried chicken and corned duck. The cold fried chicken was just marvelous. I loved the combination of chicken, ricotta, tabasco and caviar. Seriously good. The corned duck was also pretty great; the duck was nicely prepared and tender. My only complaint was that the mustard was a tad overpowering.
Our main was the smoked char with bearnaise spaetzle and broccoli rabe. It was not the most beautiful dish to look at, the colors and textures looked a little like a ghastly stew, but the flavors came together nicely and the spaetzle was sublime.
2 of the desserts were very good, not exceptional. We quite enjoyed the liquid churro with lemon and chilies, and the chocolate with beet and long pepper (though I wished the chocolate in that dish was dark, and not easter-bunny-flavored milk chocolate). They were nice, just not transcendent.
The spiced cake, we found, for lack of a better word, gross. Shame on us, as we don't like fried foods too much, but the deep fried cake with dehydrated corn and powdered sugar was kind of awful. But! We loved that we experienced an unsuccessful dish because we really got a sense of the experimentation at the restaurant. And our wonderful waiter comped it.
As Foody mentioned, Wylie was presiding over the kitchen and dining room like a proud papa.
Not the best meal of my life, but seriously fun, interesting and enjoyable. We are keen to go back and try other dishes!
Non-vegetarian Restaurants with Good Vegetables
Buttermilk Channel, right in your neck of the woods!
Help! - Extremely Picky Vegetarian Mom Coming to Town
Is Brooklyn also too exotic? Buttermilk Channel in Carroll Gardens has a very nice vegetarian menu, but it would a bit of a journey on the F train.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
Oh yes I know. I rarely venture over there. My husband and I got married in Italy and we eat Italian every anniversary. Last year's anniversary at Ai Fiori was outrageously delicious.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
It wasn't bad by any stretch of the imagination, it just didn't compel me to gush about it or run back. I did go 3 years ago though when it was just all the rage so maybe I was disappointed not to find a little slice of Italy in the meatpacking district.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
the food we had at Babbo was quite simply awful. we started with the octopus which was chewy to the point of being inedible. I can't remember which pasta my husband had, but I think it was fine. I got the orecchiette with sausage. the orecchiette was quite thick (and I remember thinking to myself, wow, if you had made this pasta ChompChomp, it would be a decent but flawed attempt. I gave Batali et al no such leeway for thick heavy pasta). We split the squab which was crazy salty. the maitre d was very kind and saw my wrinkled nose and pushed away plates and offered to make me something else, but I was just burned out at that point.
Torrisi...I have to say, I adore their sandwiches (which I think you can only get at Parm). I took my husband for his birthday last year and a highlight was that we were seated next to Jay-Z. the lowlight was the food! I don't remember anything being memorable except for the homemade mozzarella. the lamb tongue gyro and iceberg salad was just gross. sigh.
And Scarpetta is decent -- well-executed, rich, Italian food. but it didn't feel terribly special to me; which I think is the definition of over-hyped.
now! as for Michael White's food, mangia mangia!!! His food makes this paisan very happy.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
OMG!! those would be the tiniest ears ! got my fatty and delicious animals mixed up. ;)
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
Babbo, Scarpetta, Torrisi Italian Specialties.
name 5 overrated, or over hyped or famous restaurants whose food doesn't live up to reputation
The duck ear salad st spotted pig is pretty freakin good... It's just a mob scene there day and night.
April trip - soliciting opinions please
Not sure about bagels in that next of the woods, but Grandaisy Bakery is over there and quite delicious.
Walking food tour of Brooklyn?
don't make me choose!! just kidding...the first is better by a hair.
Walking food tour of Brooklyn?
If you're down there, ya gotta hit up Yun Nan Flavour Snack for the rice stick with crispy meat sauce and the hot and sour wonton soup. Amazing.
