The Dutch

Went today for lunch with 4 people. Did a couple of oysters per person, a salad and ribs for the table, and then three entrees, and that was perfect. The fried chicken isn't as good as Charles' in Harlem, but it's pretty great, and the honey-butter biscuits were to die for. Everything else ranged from good to phenomenal -- a special shout-out for the ribs and the pies. The place got loud as it filled, but it was still totally a great time.

thenewlyweds in Manhattan

Need Thanksgiving help, please

thanks for that, especially the rec for broth -- i'll use tons of it.

As far as parve subs, I'll try it beforehand, but I'm assuming making mashed potatoes with hot water, a little bit of roasted parship puree, and maybe a spoonful of parve margarine will pass (to my palate) as mashed potatoes ...

thenewlyweds in Kosher

Need Thanksgiving help, please

thank you, i'll check them out!

thenewlyweds in Kosher

Need Thanksgiving help, please

Cooking Thanksgiving meal for my Kosher-observant in-laws -- last year they brought the pre-cooked Turkey, and were okay with me making all the sides Kosher-style in my non-kashered but Kosher-style kitchen.

This year is apparently a repeat, except I have to come up with a turkey (just the breast would be ok).

Any ideas where? I've heard Kosher pre-cooked is usually lousy, and I have their standard of their caterer (who was quite good but is too far away) to live up to.

BTW, I'm NYC: UWS/Morningside Heights.

Also, can cooks help me with what supplies to lay in from the Kosher grocery? I remember that I need special chicken stock and parve margarine, but I forget if I need anything else.

Making the usual suspects, to the extent that I can without dairy -- mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pumpkin soup, etc.

Thanks in advance!

thenewlyweds in Kosher

HELP... Who remembers or knows if this place still exists...

I'm going to guess Il Tinello, Trattoria del Arte, or Cafe Luxembourg

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Cafe Luxembourg
200 W 70th St, New York, NY 10023

Il Tinello
16 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019

Arte Restaurant
21 E 9th St Frnt 1, New York, NY 10003

thenewlyweds in Manhattan

Looking for Valentine's Day dinner in Montreal

honey in the water, pouding chomeur -- I love you guys!

Will try to repay the favors should you ever come to New York.

thenewlyweds in Quebec (including Montreal)

Looking for Valentine's Day dinner in Montreal

More info for the hive mind (and so we can find it again)

Cafe Olimpico rocked. I had a classic cafe au lait with one sugar (I usually take it with none) and thought it was the best coffee I'd ever had on this continent.

Pountine at Patata was . .. well, we're glad we had it once, we're sure it was the best in town, but you guys can keep it. Ditto Fairmount bagels -- the sesame was better than the poppy, but the glaze on both was just too sweet for a New York palate.

Great take-out chicken from Rosado's. Hipster vegetarian place in Mile End that we can't remember the name of --Gab something -- nice soup and very Williamsburg-y. Hot chocolate at Juliette et Chocolat like drinking chocolate slurry; hubby says the hot chocolate at the O. was much better.

We had a fabulous time at the Atwater market -- I wish we had bought kilos and kilos of the maple pecans from the nut guy on the first floor. When we come back to Montreal (and we will) we will just do an apartment swap and cook.

And La Prunelle -- there's a chef with a great and vivid imagination whose cooks can't quite execute all the ideas. Two dishes out of five (the grouper and one dessert tart) underdone, and yet the flavor combos were so great I would go again, because the hits, with skillful use of ingredients like cardamom and Charles-Aime Robert, outweighed the misses.

One thing we liked the waiter called a "chomat," which is not a word I can find a translation for anywhere, which he insisted was a sort of pudding but which seemed to me to be more like a gateau -- but it tasted like there was a ginger cardamom thing going on which was delish.

thenewlyweds in Quebec (including Montreal)

Looking for Valentine's Day dinner in Montreal

Thanks for the recs --how friendly you Montrealers are!

We indeed could not snag a table at Europea and ended with reservations at La Prunelle, which the hotel had to help with as my beginner's French didn't really process the idea of a six pm seating and a nine pm seating, especially dealing with an answering machine and not une personne. We are looking forward to it and will report back.

Since we are here for a few days and we are going to take a look at the whole list possibly for Sunday, so the effort of posting won't be wasted. :>

To add to the "what tourists think of Montreal food" body of knowledge, we got in late last night and immediately headed to Schwartz's, where the smoked meat was every bit as great as had been promised, as were the pickles, and we also loved that the place couldn't figure out whether it had been established in 1928 or 1930 (hubby's placemat said one thing, mine said another). We found the drinks a little odd though, as hubby reports Cott's Black Cherry soda is not as good as Dr. Brown's, and I loved my Barq's root beer but it had caffeine in it, unlike it's sister version in the U.S., so I was up at four.

Next time we come we're bringing some Dr. Brown's (Black Cherry for hubby, Cel-Ray for me) with us.

thenewlyweds in Quebec (including Montreal)

Looking for Valentine's Day dinner in Montreal

Hi, we're New Yorkers who are looking forward to going to Montreal for our first time this weekend -- and honestly we are looking forward to trying poutine and your bagels as much as (or more than) the gourmet dinners.

But here's the problem - we do want to have a nice evening out on Valentine's Day. I've read through many of the Chowhound threads (love the posts, especially Carswell's) but it just seems like a lot of Montreal's top restaurants are a little . .testosterone-y. For example, the word "loud" comes up in reviews a lot. And we love Anthony Bourdain, but we have him here, thank you very much.

So we're looking for a slightly lower-key, slightly romantic dining experience -- it sounds like Anise would have been perfect, if it still existed ... for those who know New York I'm thinking the equivalent of the old Alison on Dominick, or of a Peter Kelly restaurant.

Currently leaning towards Europea, but I would welcome any weigh-ins . ..

many many thanks in advance!

thenewlyweds in Quebec (including Montreal)