Next time you should make it up to Mount Vernon for some Johnny's. I went just two weeks ago and fell in love.
Also, Staten Island has amazing pies.
I also totally agree with your assessment of Artichoke. I don't understand the appeal...
When I lived in Williamsberg (near Graham Avenue) I would see them in C-Town and in the corner bodegas all the time.
I agree, Carvel ice cream definitely signifies my suburban childhood. Flying saucers, birthday cakes (with extra crunchies)...
Patton Oswalt has a very funny routine on his Feeling Kinda Patton album all about Tom Carvel. I couldn't find a link to the full routine on line, but the whole album is very good.
Rebecca
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One of my favorite before-dinner drinks is simply equal parts sweet and dry vermouth over rocks with a twist. According to LeNell's in Red Hook, it's called a French Kiss.
Rebecca
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just one more appetizing store to add to the list: murray's sturgeon shop on broadway and 89th street.
Brunch-for-Lunch was our favorite school lunch: Eggo waffles and sausage. But I wasn't allowed to eat sausage so only waffles for me. That and pizza were the only choices available so I usually brown bagged it with a nice Hawaiian Punch juice box, pb&j and some Stella D'oro Swiss Fudge Cookies.
Rebecca
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The Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce.... I can't eat Mac and Cheese without it.
Not sure if they include it anymore but the Mac and Cheese recipe on the back of Mueller's elbows was delicious. Just make sure to add some dry mustard to the recipe.
Rebecca
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@kristyandjamey...wow...thanks for posting a comment on my post from over a year ago :) Gorgonzola is one of my favorite cheeses.
SE's....any other new additions to you mac & cheese since talked about it last year?
I like Gorgonzola cheese and diced granny smith apples. I got this idea when a friend took me to a restaurant in San Francisco called Solstice. They do it there and let me tell you...Oh My Gosh! It's the best ever!!!
Great list, Thanks for the report. I would have to add L& B's to that list for the squares, of course.
Im coming home to Ny in a couple of weeks and only have a couple of days so I really need to focus on a couple of places. The folks Im with probably wont stand a breakfast, lunch, and dinner excursion but I sure could. Explaining a one hour each way subway ride to diFaras, changing trains to hit L& B with a stop at Totonnos in between is going to be a challenge. I really need to focus on two or three places. Im thinking DiFaras #1 and then two in the city. Patsys?, Johns? or Sal and Carmines? How does that sound for an abbreviated Pizza Tour?
i have to agree with the assessment of artichoke after being told about it by half a dozen different people. i was seriously unimpressed, and if i hadn't been so hungry and waited so long to get my slice i might have tossed it after a couple of bites.
I'm OK with the pizza at Franny's but I find the place insufferable. They take themselves WAY too seriously. I also think that while it's fine to serve a variety of over-hopped local and/or specialty beers, if a place specializes in pizza they should have at least one lager or pilsner. It doesn't need to be an American pilsner (though that is what I prefer with pizza..thirst quenching and doesn't interfere with the flavors), Urquell or something along those lines would work. Maybe I just had bad timing with the selection, I haven't been back in two years..like I said, I find it insufferable.
@weinermobile: Have to agree - nix Franny's from the list for all the reasons you mention. And maybe it's me, but I find unsliced pizza a tad inconvenient to eat, especially with a full table of steak knife wielding hungry people. My pie almost ended up on the floor. Better to replace it with Grimaldi's as someone else mentioned, or ever Fornino in Williamsburg.
Sooooooo not impressed by Franny's
at all.
ever.
never.
Lifer Brooklynite(grew up in Gravesend and not living in Marine Park w/ the gf) Turned off by hipster scum. Strike 1
Neo-Italian faux cool menu
Strike 2
Food being overpriced and not that good PLUS small portions to boot
Strike 3
UPN is awesome been there alot. Grimaldis same deal.
Artichoke is wack. They can artichoke on my bawls.
Adam - cool! Let me know if you figure out what the name of that place is! I can't wait to go back!
@kqrbob: I haven't tried DiFara yet, so wasn't comparing Sal's to theirs. I wasn't going to name names, but I do think Sal's is better than John's, Totonno's and Patsy's. Haven't tried Artichoke and from what I've read, I don't really want to. I'm most curious about UPN and DiF, despite the review by GCI which fills me with apprehension, viz the long lines, hipsters, chaotic ordering, and ridiculous waits. Smoke and trash don't bother me so much.
@Nancy -- I had the same question when I saw that Lucali's pie. I've never been there and I was worried that the island of sauce and cheese in a sea of crust was the norm..good to hear that isn't the case (hoping that it isn't their new way of doing things).
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