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Your Worst Meal Ever
i was so excited! just having moved to new york, and with not access to much cash, my boyfriend and i decided to treat ourselves to a nice breakfast out. we traveled to soho to a restaurant that our friends had raved about. oh YUM! poached eggs and potato latke! with a bloody mary in hand i decided that was the route i was going to go. oh, how i love little poached eggs! here it comes! oh wait. what is this? something that wasn't noted on the menu... i think it's spiced apples? spiced apples with so much juice that the plate was flooded with apple cinnamon spice that was so cloying it was like a yankee holiday candle. and when i say flooded.. i mean flooded. the juice looked like it had been ladled on the eggs. on the potatoes. on the beautiful little biscuits that were also on the plate. i asked for an extra plate and a stack of napkins and moved the crap apples away and attempted to mop up the horrible liquid. didn't work. the flavor had permeated everything. so my glorious first new york breakfast, happy sitting at a table next to gael garcia bernal, turned into cinnamon apple arse.
Vitello Tonnato
how fantastic is this! i was in munich a couple of years ago and had a very thin airy crust pizza that was topped with thin slices of veal with tuna sauce on top. i was deathly afraid of this combo until i tasted... and then proceeded to eat myself ill on it. sooo deelish! now i can finally try to recreate. thanks so much!
The Best Bagel in New York City
Terrace Bagel in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Their Everything bagel is a glorious mix of all the goodies, including kosher salt, and is heaven with a hole in it. I have yet to be disappointed. La Bagel Delite in Park Slope is a nice 2nd.
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What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
the stuffing before it's been stuffed. all deelish salty savory warm mashy bread with meaty turkey broth, onions, celery, butter and seasoning. ahhggggg. i still get punished for raiding and i'm in my 30's - mom is wicked quick with that wooden spoon.
Your Worst Meal Ever
i was so excited! just having moved to new york, and with not access to much cash, my boyfriend and i decided to treat ourselves to a nice breakfast out. we traveled to soho to a restaurant that our friends had raved about. oh YUM! poached eggs and potato latke! with a bloody mary in hand i decided that was the route i was going to go. oh, how i love little poached eggs! here it comes! oh wait. what is this? something that wasn't noted on the menu... i think it's spiced apples? spiced apples with so much juice that the plate was flooded with apple cinnamon spice that was so cloying it was like a yankee holiday candle. and when i say flooded.. i mean flooded. the juice looked like it had been ladled on the eggs. on the potatoes. on the beautiful little biscuits that were also on the plate. i asked for an extra plate and a stack of napkins and moved the crap apples away and attempted to mop up the horrible liquid. didn't work. the flavor had permeated everything. so my glorious first new york breakfast, happy sitting at a table next to gael garcia bernal, turned into cinnamon apple arse.
Vitello Tonnato
how fantastic is this! i was in munich a couple of years ago and had a very thin airy crust pizza that was topped with thin slices of veal with tuna sauce on top. i was deathly afraid of this combo until i tasted... and then proceeded to eat myself ill on it. sooo deelish! now i can finally try to recreate. thanks so much!
The Best Bagel in New York City
Terrace Bagel in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Their Everything bagel is a glorious mix of all the goodies, including kosher salt, and is heaven with a hole in it. I have yet to be disappointed. La Bagel Delite in Park Slope is a nice 2nd.
Does a BLT Need the L?
i could give or take the lettuce - if i leave it off it's kind of a daring "oo - i'm not eating a vegetable" moment. peppered bacon on toasted rye is deelish as well... as is my childhood favourite, and 4-times a year treat, of peanut butter and bacon on toast... sigh.
Your Worst Meal Ever
This really happened when I was in Georgia for my father's second funeral.
A sandwich supper that consisted of cold Velveeta and Treet sandwiches on Wonder bread dressed with MIracle Whip mixed with ketchup and pickle relish. Served with Mountain Dew, choice of regular or diet.
Do you hear the banjos?
Tina
The Best Bagel in New York City
Thanks for the tip, Decca. I've never heard of the Bagel Store. I will check them out next time I'm in Williamsburg.
The Best Bagel in New York City
If you're ever in Williamsburgh, my vote - hands down - is:
Bagel Store
(718) 218-7244
247 Bedford Ave
Bagel Store
(718) 782-5856
754 Metropolitan Ave
They have a nice crust on the bottom and they are chewy. To me, they are the real deal.
The Best Bagel in New York City
I didn't even know about La Bagel. I will check it out. Sounds promising. I agree with you about Ess A Bagel. Its bagels are too big and too sweet.
The Best Bagel in New York City
I don't know why Essa Bagel gets such good marks. I think their bagels are too large and too soft and have little flavor. But about a block away is La Bagel. The best I've had. Of course, I haven't sampled every bagel in the New York tri-state area, but La Bagel is my idea of what a begel should be. It's at 263 1st Ave.
The Best Bagel in New York City
Bagel Hole in on 7th Ave. in Park Slope makes a nice version of the old-fashioned chewy dense bagel that must be eaten that day. Terrace Bagel in Windsor Terrace makes very good slightly larger slightly softer bagels and good bialies. I had some good bagels from a place on Coney Island Ave. in Midwood, as well. Kosar's seems to have changed recipes withing the past year or two. Their classic bialies are no more, in my humble opinion, although the onion board (pletzl) is still tops.
H&H always was second rate. The place near Columbia is great (Absolute). Columbia Hot Bagel used to be great too.
Anyone remember the great New Jersey bagel places of yesteryear? I remember one on Chancellor Ave. in Irvington, and another on West End Ave. in Jersey City. Both were great places, basically wholesalers with small service counters. My dad would take us late Saturday night to get the early edition of the Sunday paper and hot bagels. Wiggler's in Union, NJ was great also.
I'd love to hear about other great bagels which are no more...
The Best Bagel in New York City
I love the bagels at David's Bagels on 1st avenue near 19th street. I like them better than Essa, which is down the street.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
While I love mashed potatoes, in my family it's heresy to serve it with poultry. Rice and gravy, baby!
But the *dressing* (cornbread) is probably my favorite...
Oh, and the mashed sweet potatoes get dosed with a brown sugar/butter/bourbon mixture before the mini-marshmallows go on top.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
No question about it, the stuffing. Has to be homemade, with lots of onions. And slathered with homemade gravy (my mom's recipe).
Next, mashed potatoes, similarly slathered.
The turkey is only important for 2 reasons: (1) without the turkey, there wouldn't be pan drippings to serve as the base for the gravy. and (2) you need the turkey for the sandwiches for the the rest of the Thanksgiving weekend.
Pies are good, especially apple with real vanilla ice cream. But so are brownie sundaes - got to get some chocolate in there somewhere...
Happy eating, everyone!
Chris
What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
used to be mashed potatoes, but now it's stuffing.
What's your favorite Thanksgiving food?
I'm sorry to buck your line, but I think what happens in Vegas when the result wasn't anticipated (like a rainout) is officially a "no bet" so your money is returned. Anyway, I have to vote for the post Thanksgiving massive, ridiculous Turkey sandwich. It goes something like this:
A sturdy bread to hold up to the food. either a Jewish rye or a rustic ciabatta type thing. Turkey on bottom, followed by a spoonful of gravy. Thin layers of potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, a spoon or two of gravy. Cranberries next, perhaps some yam too. A spoon gravy. Top it with a nice piece of turkey skin, put the 2nd slice of bread on, and give it a nice squeeze. My preference is to microwave it, but it can be enjoyed cold. Find a glass of whatever wine was left over from yesterday, and enjoy.
Your Worst Meal Ever
I will happily share my worst meal ever because even though it happened in the mid 1990s it still haunts me to this day. A friend and me were visiting England (I know, ominous start) and we were going up to Oxford from London to visit a student friend later in the day. We were so new to Oxford and England that we didn't quite get how small and close everything was. So we got off the train at the Oxford station and proceeded to walk through the town into the next village thinking we were still in Oxford. My friend and I were both New Yorkers at the time so we were used to walking great distances while carrying stuff. We probably only walked five to eight miles or so, but when we started seeing grazing sheep we figured something was amiss. So we stopped into a pub and learned that we walked right through the town without seeing the University (in all fairness to us Oxford at the time wasn't exactly open to the public).
We were famished and this was a country pub so we thought well let's at least have lunch. The waitress was wonderfully friendly the menu looked good. I ordered the chicken parmesan and my friend got the pub favorite shepard's pie. And some hard ciders. What I got was something fried to the point of resembling dark shoe leather doused in cheese whiz. I am not exaggerating. My friend's shepard's pie was worse. We weren't going to even try this food. The cheeze whiz was glowing and just poking the chicken I learned it was brittle. We gulped down the ciders, paid the bill on the table (with generous tip of course -- our waitress not only didn't make fun of us for being tourist dweebs but drew us a map and explained how Oxford was set up). Then we RAN back to the pizza hut near the Oxford train station for lunch before we met our friend. (Mind you we were carrying our luggage backpacks.)
Anyway, love your blog and thoughts!
claude r
Your Worst Meal Ever
Most of the worst meals I've had that spring to mind are all the result of terrible service more so that terrible food, and from restaurants who's reputations would lead you to believe the service would be quite good. Although my memory of the food at Ouest and DB Bistro is that it was competent, if unremarkable, the ill treatment by unpleasant staff was memorable enough that I'd never go back, not even on someone else's dime...
Your Worst Meal Ever
The worstmeal I ever had in a restaurant was at LUPA.
Tried to go many times and finally went for my birthday.1st we waited 45 minutes for our reservation.
Then we were sat in the aisle right outside after requesting a nice table when we made the reservation.Waited another 15 minutes for a waitress & another 15 for bread water etc.
Finally placed our order and got dry salami & proscuitto like leather, overdressed salad and
the sardines were off.
Then our waitress comes over to inform us she is leaving and the busboy will handle our table!!!!The mains arrive and I tell you it was shocking.The deep fried cauliflower was burned,which I was told it was supposed to be like that and the saltimboca was so salty and the fontina was like a sheet of brittle.
The sauce was non existant and my dates food was just as bad.
Then cold espresso and and some really horrible desserts.
I was really amazed that this was the food people were lining up outside for and to top it all off we were leaving and Mario is sitting in the front dining area with 2 of the guys from REM getting wasted.
That was and will be the last time I ever set foot in his restaurants after having a similar,previous experience at Esca.
His places are way over rated.
Your Worst Meal Ever
In Budapest I ordered a quattro stagione pizza. Honestly I don't know what the hell I was thinking. I guess I was just missing Italian food and tired of goulash. But since when is broccoli a season? What the hell were they thinking!
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....!
Your Worst Meal Ever
I was an impressionable three years old when my mother, generally an excellent cook, decided to try her hand at Coquille St Jacques, a scallop dish with cream and butter served in a scallop shell. It was a disaster. The cream sauce was lumpy and charred around the edges of the shell, the scallops were long past rubbery, and the smell was nauseating. Not even the novelty of eating from a shell could console my brother and I, who refused to eat it. We eventually arrived at a compromise: if we ate four scallops, we could have dessert. I clearly remember walking over to the sink, washing the rancid sauce off the scallops and swallowing them whole.
Three years old, and this memory is burned into my mind. To this day when my mother cooks scallops we give her a hard time, though there has never since been a disaster on quite that scale...
Your Worst Meal Ever
I was in fourth grade, and we were visiting Walt Disney World's then-newish Epcot Center. I was young and a sucker and really did believe in the animitronic magic of the place. Epcot center had an international gallery of plazas pretending to be other countries--Germany, England, China, etc. One night we ate dinner in a fake Aztec temple in fake Mexico, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. The following night my parents made a dinner reservation for the restaurant in fake Morocco. The restaurant was brand-new, nearly empty, and totally screwed up. We waited two hours for food I was not interested in at all in the first place. I fell asleep with my head in my mother's lap, more out of boredom than fatigue. I awoke to a dry, bland mess of couscous. It was midnight by the time we got out of there. The only redeeming quality of fake Morocco was the belly dancer.
Your Worst Meal Ever
We moved to New Zealand a few years ago. A restaurant opened called "Coyote" that claimed to do American regional food -- vaguely southwestern. We ordered smoked ribs with pineapple salsa (hoping against hope). When they arrived, they had been BOILED, probably for some time, since what we were actually served was a plate of bones with a few grey shreds of pork clinging forlornly to them. The pineapple marmalade (!) had nothing to hold onto, so was pooled on the bottom of the plate. This was the first time in my life I actually sent something back to the kitchen.
Your Worst Meal Ever
funny, 1 person's "bad" is another's good. growing up, 1 of my favorite meals were those very same cubed steaks, thrown into a skillet browned with butter & worcestershire & served with french fries & a coke, before the advent of diet coke
Your Worst Meal Ever
My mother used to cook something called "cube steaks" for my Brothers and I. No idea what the actual cut was, but came flat and pounded out. served overcooked, dry, grey and lifeless.... WITH A SLICE OF SINGLE WRAP AMERICAN CHEESE MELTED ON TOP.
I think I had actually blocked this from memory and thought of it for the first time in a decade recently.
Another creation of hers was a microwave "grilled cheese". two slices of store bought "country white", buttered on the inside, couple slices of cheese, then microwaved until melted. unbelievable. I don't think we minded it then because it was basically butter and cheese, but the thought of eating it now is unbearable.
Needless to say, I worked in a couple restaurants for about a year in order to learn how to prep and cook for myself as a reaction to the "food" i was raised on.
The Best Bagel in New York City
Anyone seeking a good bagel should go to queens, Bagel Oasis has the some of the best bagels around. They are located in Fresh Meadows Queens right on the LIE service road. Check them out online Bagel Oasis
The Best Bagel in New York City
Forget it! Get a zipcar or something and drive all the way out to Hot Bagels, on Montauk Highway in Sayville, Long Island. Then, since you're stuck way out there already, go hang out on the beach for the rest of the morning, then get a beer and some steamers at the Cull House and forget about the city for a while.
The Best Bagel in New York City
julma is right on, I adore Terrace Bagles. I used to live right near them and got hooked on the pumpernickle, which, consequently, is the one pictured in the image above. Malty, not too sweet, not too piquant, utterly perfect. Hands down my vote for best bagel in the 5 boroughs
The Best Bagel in New York City
Bergen Bagel is good, but Absolute is the absolute! Their egg bagel with a schmear of butter would be on my Last Meal list. So sweet, dense, and chewy.
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the stuffing before it's been stuffed. all deelish salty savory warm mashy bread with meaty turkey broth, onions, celery, butter and seasoning. ahhggggg. i still get punished for raiding and i'm in my 30's - mom is wicked quick with that wooden spoon.