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[Levi Dalton]

The Dubliner House should be purchased by someone like McNally or Gabe Stuhlman and redone. I'm fascinated by the fixtures in that place. Those wooden seats that look like they used to be in some one room schoolhouse. The floor. The sign outside.

If you go, get a Black and Tan.

I thank Mr. Raynolds for the introduction.

 

[lars makie]

Wow, Levi, that list is something else. I just noticed you updated it. I'll definitely agree with Abraco. That was a new-to-me find from last time I was in the city. I just had a regular coffee and one of their pain perdu (far from sweet and hand-holdable) and thought it was great. I'm glad you added Porchetta, too. Go to Abraco in the morn and swing back by to Porchetta for lunch. Or you could always swing up to Caracas for an arepa.

I know there's a lot going on food-wise in Brooklyn, but I can't recommend going to Diner in Williamsburg enough. When you're done, you can walk back to the city over the Williamsburg bridge (not the most scenic, but right there) and swing into Ten Bells to keep the night going. My only advice if you're going to do that, is go to the bathroom before you start going over the bridge.

 

[Oswaldo Costa]

Awesome list. Totally awesome.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
The Dubliner House should be purchased by someone like McNally or Gabe Stuhlman and redone.

That is a great idea.

I haven't been in a very long time, used to go when I lived 50 blocks north of there but would come down to shop in that neighborhood.

The crowd always seemed a bit professional for me.

 

[Yixin]

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
The Dubliner House should be purchased by someone like McNally or Gabe Stuhlman and redone.

That is a great idea.

I haven't been in a very long time, used to go when I lived 50 blocks north of there but would come down to shop in that neighborhood.

The crowd always seemed a bit professional for me.

Oh poor Joe, slumming it.

 

[Robert Dentice]

Levi -Incredible list! So good that I am inspired to add to the thread because I think this is going to be useful to many for a long time:

Pizza - Di Fara. Avenue J Brooklyn

Booklyn Fare is to me as good as its reputation and I also second Prune (they have a reasonable corkage policy too)and Soto

Vinegar Hill in Brooklyn is also a favorite. Great wine list

For food shopping I like SOS Chefs and Kalustyans

Edi and The Wolf is a great new Austrian restaurant in the East Village

ChikaLicious for dessert

Boheme on Great Jones - the not so secret "secret" Japanese restaurant is one of the most relaxing places to eat in NYC. The food is good. Wine is hit or miss but they allow corkage. AND it is in a space that Andy Warhol owned and Basquiat used to live and work in and check out their butcher shop in front

Kajitsu is the best vegetarian restaurant in the U.S. But the winelist is poor/very small so be prepared to drink Saki

Speaking of Saki - Sakaya on East 9th street is dedicated exclusively to Saki and right around the corner from Momofuku Noodle Bar

For dive bars I have always loved Subway Inn but I have not been in years

 

[Bill Lundstrom]

speaking of prune...has anyone else read chef hamiltons memoir? i think it was a great read. i couldn't put it down.

 

[VLM]

Thanks Levi (and others).

So much to do in that City. As much Durham pride as I have, if I could figure out a way to make it happen...

 

[JasonA]

Yeah, there are other things but I wouldn't suggest them. Pack a picnic, a blanket and a clandestine bottle (or two) and head over to the new Brooklyn Bridge Park for a movie under the stars. Thursday July 7, they are featuring Manhattan set against a background of Manhattan.

 

[SFJoe]

originally posted by Yixin:

originally posted by SFJoe:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:
The Dubliner House should be purchased by someone like McNally or Gabe Stuhlman and redone.

That is a great idea.

I haven't been in a very long time, used to go when I lived 50 blocks north of there but would come down to shop in that neighborhood.

The crowd always seemed a bit professional for me.

Oh poor Joe, slumming it.

I meant professional drinkers.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

originally posted by JasonA:
Yeah, there are other things but I wouldn't suggest them.

Fiddlesticks. There are plenty of fine things to do in addition to eating and drinking. You just named one! There are musems, skyscrapers, parks and bridges galore. There are ethnic neighborhoods a-plenty. There's Broadway. There's fashion. There's diamonds. There's FAO Schwartz!

 

[Jeff Grossman]

There is a Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown very near the courthouse that is very good and cheap. Great condensed milk coffee. My remembering the actual name of this venue would be impossible. Also, there is no atmosphere here aside from the old characters who compose the waitstaff.

Nha Trang?

 

[Marshall Gelb]

Thanks Levi and all the other contributors. Amazing list of things to do and try on my next visit.
Much appreciated!

Cheers!
Marshall

 

[Zachary Ross]

originally posted by JasonA:
Other than food and wine...Yeah, there are other things but I wouldn't suggest them. Pack a picnic, a blanket and a clandestine bottle (or two) and and head over to the new Brooklyn Bridge Park for a movie under the stars. Thursday July 7, they are featuring Manhattan set against a background of Manhattan.

Or head down there on a weekend, grab a takeout pizza from Grimaldi's, and eat it while sitting on the "Grand Staircase" and take in the view of Manhattan etc.

 

[Sharon Bowman]

I really recommend Washington Heights (the part called "Hudson Heights") between Broadway and the river on the west, 184th-193rd. The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, the nuts Tudor homes on Pinehurst, etc. It's another world. (I lived there for a year in 2004.)

Also like the Neue Galerie. German expressionism in a 19th c mansion, in the low '90s on Fifth Avenue.

 

[JasonA]

You might want to grab a reservation at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

 

[Levi Dalton]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

There is a Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown very near the courthouse that is very good and cheap. Great condensed milk coffee. My remembering the actual name of this venue would be impossible. Also, there is no atmosphere here aside from the old characters who compose the waitstaff.

Nha Trang?

Just the place!

Thanks.

 

[Jay Miller]

originally posted by Brad Kane:

originally posted by Levi Dalton:

An order of pork buns at Momofuku Noodle Bar (which I prefer to Ssam Bar right now).

The tea smoked duck entree at Grand Sichuan on 55th and 2nd Ave. They allow corkage here.

I have to agree with you on the Noodle Bar over the Ssam Bar. Also, be on the lookout at Noodle Bar for the braised, crispy pig tails which they have on the menu every once in awhile.

However, I'll vehemently object to the 55th Street Grand Sichuan outlet. I find them to be the weakest link in the group food wise and I've had such abysmal service there, documented on Wine Therapy, that I boycott the place. Much better off getting the tea smoked duck at 24th and 9th, imho.

Other than that, that's an excellent list. I'd add a smoked fish and bagels breakfast at Barney Greengrass and a trip to Zabars.

I'll give the 8th St. branch a slight nod over the 24th St. branch at the moment. These things change quickly however.

Also, if you're doing Greek while Estiatorio Milos is good I have a soft spot for the octopus at Periyali (which in the old days was the only high end Greek restaurant in Manhattan).

I like a cup of coffee and a coffee macaron at Payards on Houston St.

A cappucino at Kaffe 1668.

Levi - fantastic list.

 

[Brian C]

+1 for Franny's in Park Slope. Love that place.

 

[Cliff]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
There's FAO Schwartz!

How is it these days?