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My Girlfriend wants Balthazar but I can't afford it!
Belcourt on 2nd ave
Good Brunch in NYC with not too long of a wait!
Belcourt. No wait, Great food and Great prices.........the service can be slow sometimes.
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Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
what about happy kitchen?
My Girlfriend wants Balthazar but I can't afford it!
Belcourt on 2nd ave
Good Brunch in NYC with not too long of a wait!
Belcourt. No wait, Great food and Great prices.........the service can be slow sometimes.
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.
Top 10 Grilled Burgers in NYC?
I don't know it they are griddled or grilled, but Pipers Kilt up in Inwood (one of three locations) has my gold standard for pub burgers. I just cant believe they haven't been written up here yet?
Top 10 Grilled Burgers in NYC?
I don't know if they are grilled or griddled, but Pipers' Kilt in Inwood has by gold standardurger I have ever had.
And PFY PJ Clark's burgers are definately griddled, cause while I was eating oysters with my Guiness last week I peeked in the kitchen and saw a bunch of burgers lined-up and staying warm on the griddle. I just hope they don't sit there too long. 5 guys are griddled too.
Good Brunch in NYC with not too long of a wait!
Don't go to kingswood....worst service ever and average food....had crab eggs benedict and the crab was straight out of can. There is a reason why the place is wide open....I am sure you newyorkers can figure out why
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?
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
How about the fact that there are no longer any of the old dairy restaurants left in the lower East side. these were wonderful Kosher restaurants where you got the best blintz, herring etc. I particularly remember the Grand Street dairy Restaurant
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Cafe Crocodile on east 74th street. I loved that place, and spent pretty much every birthday and anniversary there. Andree (the chef) and her husband, Charlie, would bend over backwards for you. There were so many times I'd planned special occasions there and they went so above and beyond it was ridiculous. I loved that they were a family run place and took such pride in it. Then one day they were gone (sniff). I don't think I'm every gonna find a place that suited me so perfectly.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
There was a very old world Italian food shop on 29th street and 3rd Avenue named Trinacria;wooden floors,barrels of things and the first and best sausage and pepper sandwich that I ever tasted...all for 65 cents in 1968[which was a lot to spend on a sandwich at that point in my life].A nod to Zampieri's Bakery on Sullivan Street,which baked big thick slabs of onion focaccia every morning.And the cafaterias,some good,some awful;the Dayton,the Garden,Dubrow's,the Gouverner.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Trader Vic's in the Plaza
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
new york used to be a great cafeteria town. What a loss:
Food (on prince st)
Dubrows (midtown and brooklyn)
Garden Cafeteria
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Tien Tsien at 125th and Broadway. Manny Wolf's. The Red Balloon. Cafe Chauveron. What a privelage.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
The Horn & Hardart automat was on 42nd Street and, I think, 3rd Avenue, on the SE corner (that's southeast, not Serious Eats). I actually ate there a couple of times before it shuttered for good.
We used to eat at Luchow's with my family when I was a little girl. There was also a little traditional Italian place called La Groceria, in the West Village on 6th Ave & West 4th, where the Papaya Dog is now.
When I saw the review of John Dory it made me think of John Clancy, another late-lamented seafood place from the mid-80s, which was...oh geez. Just west of 7th Avenue on, maybe, 10th Street?
@pomaine: Zum Zum's! My mom worked in Rockefeller Center and she and I would have lunch there all the time in the '70s! I loved that place. Always did love a good wurst.
I'm pretty sure there was a Jahn's in Manhattan, since I know we went there for ice cream and we almost never went to the boroughs.
Is La Grenouille still out there? I remember eating there pre-theatre with my mom.
Lutece--I did have the opportunity to eat there in 1980; I'll never forget it.
There's a spot on 2nd Ave, between E. 5th and E. 6th, that is one of those restaurant black holes; no restaurant lasts there long. But in the mid-80s there was a great Caribbean restaurant called Sugar Reef, which my friends and I went to a LOT. So tasty!
Bygone restaurants; a sad thread....
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
I lived across the street from Jahn's in West Islip, NY. Got many free ice cream cones on my birthday.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Patisserie Claude is still around. Claude has retired. One of his employees took the shop over. It's not 100% the same, but it's still around.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Patricia Murphy's for popovers. Lundy's, as mentioned elsewhere. Wolfie's, near Brooklyn College. I remember my little Italian grandmother - on one of the few occasions I saw her outside her own kitchen - bringing me there for a meal just once, and improbably ordering a Manhattan.
@eeleb, you mentioned Hisae's, which I can barely make out through the mists of time, although I know loved it in its day. Can anyone remind me where it was, and what I ate there?
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
@pooch--There was more than one Jahn's; I have fond memories of the one in Brooklyn.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Lin's Garden, they had the best roast duck chow fun in the city. Now, most places won't even make roast duck chow fun unless you beg and plead and then they'll charge you an arm and a leg for it. Goodies. Jon Vie's closing killed me. The rugelach.... And yes, Ratner's :(
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
@eleeb: The Landmark's website was still up and running when I looked for it a month or so ago; I meant to eat there but was sidetracked by trying to sort and ship books, and didn't really get out, last time I was in NYC.
Patisserie Claude is gone?!!!! Oh no nonono....
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
@pooch, Coq Au Vin was midtown but I don't recall exactly where. Hell's Kitchen, maybe? Classic French, Julia Child would have approved - like Le Quercy but less expensive, run by a French family (everyone was involved, daughter was the waitress, wife the hostess, husband the cook, cousin the coatchecker). Dessert- crepes surprise, which was a scoop of ice cream rolled in a crepe and topped with melba sauce. Heaven.
Landmark Tavern - very old pub on 11th Ave at 48th. Has had several incarnations. Always good pints & fish and chips, and a ghost residing on the second floor, they say...
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
Tab Tos on East 5th. So cheap, so delicious, so weird... my long lost sushi nazi. RIP, Tab Tos.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
PATISSERIE CLAUDE?????!!!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
How about that great French Restaurant La Cote Basque.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
doctorted - do you mean jahn's ice cream shop? in queens?
my god, that was the ice cream parlor mecca ... i spent so many happy times there as a teenager.
Old New York: Bygone Restaurants
I'm glad Doctored said Maxwell's Plum. The place was a hoot, though the food was kind of grim. I can't tell you how often I ate take-out from Smokey's. Everything was good, including the fried chicken livers. What drove it under?
We lost Sweet's and Sloppy Louie's in the Fulton Street Fish Market. No idea what's there now. The whole things has become a plastic replica of what it was, so I never go.
Some upscale restaurants that I miss:
Lutece
The Coach House--where Babbo is now.
Sea Fare of the Aegean
Tower Suite--for weekend brunch, atop the Time-Life Building
I miss the Cosmic Coffee Shop, near where Colisseum Books (alas!) used to be. (Don't get me on to lost bookstores.)
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what about happy kitchen?