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Fishmongers in and around the East Village
The Bleecker St. Lobster Place is the prodigal son of the Chelsea Market store. Quality is half and prices double.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Walk by Peter Lugar's at 9pm on a crisp autumn day.
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John Dory Closed, Hopes To Relocate
Overrated, overhyped........Food was heavyhanded.......With millions invested they never had a chance.
Fishmongers in and around the East Village
The Bleecker St. Lobster Place is the prodigal son of the Chelsea Market store. Quality is half and prices double.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Walk by Peter Lugar's at 9pm on a crisp autumn day.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Chock Full O' Nuts Cinammon Donut
Lundy's
Umberto's Brooklyn
Maxwells Plum
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
Ham & Cheese Fritatta.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Porterhouse for two.
Sullivan Street Bakery: New York's Best Bakery Keeps Rising
Pure Heaven. All of It.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
Nova Lox, Cream Cheese on a Bialy.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters
A piece of smoked sturgeon, tomato , onion on a plate.
Accompanied with a garlic bagel with a smear.
Sunday, 11am at Barney Greengrass.
What is the most vile dish you have ever created?
My hired help once made me a cream cheese and bologna sandwich on white toast.
Fruit Soup in New York City?
I've noticed Agata & Valentina has a fruit soup in their soup section. Looks good. Will try it.
Fruit Soup in New York City?
I've noticed Agata & Valentina has a fruit soup in their soup section. Looks good. Will try it.
You'll never see ____ on my grocery list
Maypo
Chun-King Chow Mein
Tang
Vanilla Junket
Ovaltine
Scooter Pies
Hawaiian Punch
Chunky
I'm in a Doughnut State of Mind
Ed, I couldn't agree with you more...I find the doughnuts at the Donut Plant way too big ,dense and doughy with a burnt almost bitter after taste...The toppings are wonderful but overwhlmed by the dough...The funny thing is the accessories are usually better than the donuts...Coffee, juices and when they make rolls, they are excellent.
For me , give me those little hole in the wall donut shops that you used to find by subway entrances in days gone by...
PS. And dont forget the old Horn & Hardarts sugar donut...Heaven...
Your Worst Meal Ever
I moved to manhattan after graduating from medical school. Did my residency at an UES hospital. One day my parents visited from Brooklyn. We decided to stay local. [ This was in the mid 1980's ]. There was a restaurant/bar about on 1st avenue and 88th street on SW corner sort of like a Dorians type place. Served mostly burgers and a few specials...That day it was shrimp in curry sauce. I cant to this day figure out why i ordered this as i never was a fan of curry. Plate came...a pile of what seemed to be frozen,rubbery shrimp slathered with the strongest, stinkiest, goopiest yellow sauce i have ever seen with a lump of gummy tasteless white rice on the side...I got nauseous,, couldnt eat and ruined the whole meal...Even my mother was disgusted but blamed me for ordering it....!
Tim Zagat Likes Close to Home Cooking
Im sorry Ed, I cant agree...Im suprised by what seems to be an ad hominem attack...not characteristic of your laid back, friendly style...It is a bit heavy handed to accuse the Zagats in an almost conspiratorial way...Yes we know many food critics may not be the most savory characters [ no pun intended !], but i would hardly think the Zagats would base a restaurants rating on its proximity...
Does a BLT Need the L?
Ed:
You,ve had the guts to pose a question that may have gotten you burned at the stake in midiieval times!
I,ve found myself sweating in many a diner, luncheonette and coffee shop when it came time to order my BLT sans L. Many confused quizzical looks have come my way...IMHO, i just think the lettuce , at worst detracts from the perfect meld of the B&T and at best doesnt really bring much to the party...I feel as if a 100 pound weight has been lifted from my shoulders!
Sullivan Street Bakery: New York's Best Bakery Keeps Rising
This is my favorite bread of all time.
It is true peasant bread, I love the pane pugliese.
We are lucky enough in NJ to be able to buy it at Whole Foods and some other local specialty markets......but there's nothing like buying it fresh from the bakery in the city.....especially the pizza bianco, when it's fresh out of the oven.
John Dory Closed, Hopes To Relocate
I ate here many times and the only thing that tasted good was the fish and chips. All of the other dishes had problematic tastes such as the uni butter, and the overly spicy fish soup that overpowered any chance of tasting the fish. Unfortunately, in the soups and pan roast, the fish was overcooked and tasteless. Undercooking was also a problem. Not a great loss........except for the fish and chips.
Sullivan Street Bakery: New York's Best Bakery Keeps Rising
What I wouldn't do to work for Jim at SSB! I have such a passion for bread baking. I am a self taught bread maker and bake lots of bread but none as awesome as his. Jim, the texture and flavor is the best ever. I'll work for free!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
The Pink Tea Cup still there, the last time I looked. Side of fried chicken with your pancakes?
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
I recall '60s-era Village soul food: Pink Teacup (everything with bacon, I seem to remember) on West Side; Princess Pamela's (briefly) pretty far east, perhaps on 10th Street..
And then there was: The Paradox, for your brown-rice-and-seaweed fix.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
The only saving grace of my family's yearly road trips to California was passing through Gilroy, the garlic capital of the world, and the worst smell I've ever experienced was Lodi, which we never passed through again. Imagine every form of animal byproduct just waiting to pervade your senses for days.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in a little town in Yorkshire, England, and there's a health-food shop called the Bear Co-Op near me that always smells really strongly of spices and herbs. I've always loved it, since I was a little girl.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
does anyone remember the name of the long gone Italian restaurant on the west side of Second Avenue in the 50s that had great thin crust pizza and equally great Chinese bartenders?
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
My husband grew up not too far from one of Ghiradelli's chocolate factories near San Francisco. When I noticed the aroma, my mother-in-law told me that if you have to have air pollution, make it chocolate.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
mmm, every time I drive past the Nabisco factory on 208 in fair lawn, nj I always roll down the windows and take in a big whiff. mmmm, cookies
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
In 1965-66 I lived in Gilroy CA and the summer smells from the garlic processing plant and the tomato canning plant were almost overwhelming. Skip 30 years and Oakland's Chinatown fortune cookie factory would occasionally goof up and burn those sweet cookies...I liked that better than when the then closed down Nabisco plant burned theirs....that was too much even though it was obvious that it was food, not houses, burning.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Here in Lexington, KY we have a JIF factory and when they are roasting peanuts it's a wonderful thing... even despite the latest scare! I used to live about 3 blocks from it, and I really miss that neighborhood.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
My g-ma lives in oak park, IL...a mere 1/4 mile from the ferrara pan factory. You can tell exactly when Boston Baked Beans, LemonHeads and other various candies are being made.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Decatur, IL - has an ADM plant that makes cornstarch and the whole town smells like corn flakes.
Its neither a good nor a bad smell.... just corny and ubiquitous.
I prefer my own local autumn "large scale" smell of roasting green chiles on nearly every parking lot surface in town. Tingly nose-burning wonderment...
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
@tina-eats - it's been over 8 years since I worked there....
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
B&G Foods in Portland, Maine, makes B&M Baked Beans. You can smell the sweet baking molasses aroma driving through Portland on Interstate 95. Yum!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live above a Starbucks. The smell is peculiar...a bit like coffee mixed with a touch of linoleum high school hallway. However, it smells like home to me :)
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I was in Battle Creek, MI and was outside all day. Battle Creek, Cereal City, is the home of the Kellogg's cereal plant. I was at a park a good 5 miles from the Kellogg factory. In the morning they were making Cocoa Pebbles, in the afternoon, Fruit Loops. Smelled delicious.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
i lived in denmark for a year near a sugar plant that processed sugar cane, during the summer months it smelled awful 24/7, like burned sugar and mud
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
@amydistel, I grew up in that exact neighborhood near Miller Park! The yeast smell actually comes from 2 places- the Miller Brewery, and (emitting a stronger smell I think) the Red Star Yeast factory in the valley.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Driving through Cedar Rapids, IA - both The Quaker Oats plants and the Ralston Purina plant would produce some interesting aromas.
Used to work in a building that had a pizzeria and the elevator shafts would act like chimneys. You could smell the basil and oregano all the time.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in Ybor City, the Latin quarter of Tampa, FL. The there are two bakeries and a company that roast Cuban style coffee with in walking distance of my apartment. The smells are AMAZING!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in Hershey, PA. The smell of chocolate is strongest in the early morning. I never get tired of it.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Theres this rinky-dink bakery close to where I live that bakes the most delicious guava, cheese pastries; plus homemade empanadas! The smell is buttery and sweet. Reminds me of where I came from.
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Overrated, overhyped........Food was heavyhanded.......With millions invested they never had a chance.