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Birthday Italian choice (more difficult than expected)
Manzo...hmmm. I think I am goig to do a preliminary run. Thanks!
Birthday Italian choice (more difficult than expected)
The 22d, but the dinner can be anytime thereabouts. I am not in any way fixated on the date. I would even have my birthday dinner next month...for the right food.
Birthday Italian choice (more difficult than expected)
I pose it to you, beloved experts, to help me on this. My birthday. Fine Italian (any region). Manhattan.
Here are my criteria:
1. No small precious portions (I eat BIG)
2. Reservations accepted please (optional, but prefered)
3. As good/better than Del Anima, Scarpetta, Babbo, you get the idea....
4. Open to places all over the price scale, and I am NOT looking for expensive places exclusively
This is harder than I thought it would be. I am very open to suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Chinese in Manhattan for a mixed family- Dilemma!
As crappy as Chinatown Brasserie may be, their Peking duck is really really good. I wish I could dislike the place for various reasons, but that duck keeps me coming back.
Why are there no really good Indian restaurants?
Precisely the problem. It is the 'haute' style that kills it for me. I have been to both places, and although the food was good (not great), the preciousness and tiny portions rendered it a bad experience. I think most people want an Indian place to be more direct, relaxed, and less presentation oriented.
Cheap, Healthy, and Filling Meals
absolutely a good choice. try the masabacha falafel.
Worst slice of pizza in Manhattan
Great story. I love the sequence of eye contact, scowl, and trashed slice. The worst slice in NYC cannot rightly be determined, because so many places are terrible in exactly the same way. Tasteless processed cheese, tepid tasteless canned sauce, no discernible spices or any kind, pointlessly undramatic insubstantial crust that seems as if it would dissolve on contact with water.
Ever eaten at Fette Sau?
True. I once did a Fed Ex order from Black's in Lockhardt Texas a few years ago. Let it suffice to say that I have accepted that we do not have that here in any form whatsoever. Ceratinly Fette Sau is even close.
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Fette Sau
354 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Ever eaten at Fette Sau?
I loved this place a few years back, but have come to think that their meat is too greasy and fatty, and lacks the well smoked texture and taste that I love about barbeque. It might be that they are using lesser cuts of meat, or are not smoking them enough, but I find all their stuff to be way too wet, and rather tasteless in comparisan to the great barbeque I have had in the south. At worst, the meat was inedible to me. I understand that there are those who love greasy sloppy bbq. I prefer a well tempered cue, high on the smoke scale. You will absolutely not get that here anymore.
7 days of eating in NYC
I concur. HRC is a tourist trap, and River Cafe is all view (so-so food, great view though...).
Italian comfort food from the 60's please? NYC
I second Parkway. No yuppie crap. Old school all the way. Ital-American.
where to buy crawfish in NY?
Do yourself a favor and buy American crawfish. Asian (especially Chinese) crawfish are some of the most toxic food products on the market. I know what you are thinking: oil spill. Do not fret. Almost all of them are farmed extremely regulated.
Tattooed Couple looking for funky, trendy, fun, fancy dinner. And DRINKS!
In NYC Tattooed is mainstream.
What are the most worthwhile Brooklyn restaurant splurges?
Al Di La and Noodle Pudding are excellent places to go all out. Not exactly Convivio or Per Se, but pretty damn good. Noodle Pudding should NOT be discounted because of the sins of the past. Just try the risotto.
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Al Di La
248 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Noodle Pudding
38 Henry St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
dell'anima - what to order?
I love the RISOTTO ALLA PILOTA and POLLO AL DIAVOLO enormously. I also get the Brussels sprouts with dried fruit on the side.
Best Pizza is pretty bad
I think you hit it craig: overhyped.
Ok, maybe it was not disastrous, but certainly NOT a destination spot. It is average at best.
Best Pizza is pretty bad
Having heard that this joint was a good example of the typical NY style street slice with a few added tricks (such as picked veggies/esoteric toppings) I tried it. In fact, I tried 3:
1. My grandma slice was dried out , rather tasteless, and boring. Their sauce could use an angle of some kind, but it lagged and sagged and went nowhere.
2. My regular slice was like cardboard. Simply nobody home. Texturally dead.
3. The picked veggie slice was an interesting idea, and was what brought me in, but in the end was overly salty, quite dried out, and without any depth of sensation. Not much in the way of texture to write home about in addition to lacking any engaging taste sensations.
All of the slices were one dimensional. The rave reviews are unwarranted.
Go elsewhere, and save yourself the pain of the loud horrible rap music.
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Best Pizza
33 Havemeyer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Good italian food at a good price?
Frankie's on the LES is very good, and within your budget. If you want to spend a little more, Del Anima is great, but pushing the price a little bit.
I agree with Riverman on Lupa and Crispo, however I think they cannot compare with Del Anima.
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Lupa
170 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012
Crispo
240 W 14th St, New York, NY 10011
Best risotto
I might not get much agreement on this, but I think the best risotto in NYC is at Noodle Pudding in Brooklyn Heights. Try their lobster/seafood or mushroom.
We got a car. Where do we go?
Al Di La does not get enough attention. Di Fara gets too much.
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Al Di La
248 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Best risotto
You have to be joking about Risottoria, They can't seem to get it right; overcooked mush and undercooked crunchy are their hallmarks. I have been there enough times to sense a definite pattern....they have no feel for what they do.
Romantic West Village Restaurant REALLY needed
Just bypass the romance a little and go for the food at Del'Anima.
Summer Trip to NYC
For Steak IMO there is no better place than Peter Luger (I know its Brooklyn). For
Italian I would like Del'Anima, Scarpetta, and Convivio for grand scale meals, and Lavagna or Frankie's 17 downtown for budget meals.
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Frankies 17 Spuntino
17 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002
Lavagna
545 E. 5th St., New York, NY 10009
Dell'Anima
38 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10003
Scarpetta
355 West 14th Street, New York, NY 10014
First Date, East Village, Degustation?
Lavagna is the best choice I see here simply because of the food. The specials are consistently creative and utilize great ingedients, often in ways which are quite uncommon. Plus their pork chop with balsamic is fanstasic. Great wine list too.
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Lavagna
545 E. 5th St., New York, NY 10009
Any good NYC restaurants for teens?
Del'Anima on the village. It has food that is beyond amazing (pastas are a feature), plus all of that hip crap that teens like (bar scene).
New coat of paint and new floors, Dom had to raise prices.
And they don't give a damn. If they are reading this I hope they realize that they are hemorrhaging customers like hurricane Katrina.
