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Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Over the past two years, I have regrettably morphed into a Coffee Snob. I used to be able to enjoy a cup of coffee straight from a streetcart, but now even the Van Leeewuen truck isn't good enough for me. I'm some kind of monster.
But there's something about awful diner coffee that I crave and love, @Allison, so thank you for reminding me that I'm overdue for some quality space-out time in a diner. Great post. :)
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
pumpkin in chili? i kind of love this pumpkin-in-stew-like-dishes phenomenon lately. really helps as a vegetarian!
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Dulce de Leche/Caramel Cheesecake in New York?
The Vanderbilt in Brooklyn has a DELICIOUS goatcheesecake. it's not caramel flavored but it's so good I had to mention it.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Over the past two years, I have regrettably morphed into a Coffee Snob. I used to be able to enjoy a cup of coffee straight from a streetcart, but now even the Van Leeewuen truck isn't good enough for me. I'm some kind of monster.
But there's something about awful diner coffee that I crave and love, @Allison, so thank you for reminding me that I'm overdue for some quality space-out time in a diner. Great post. :)
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
pumpkin in chili? i kind of love this pumpkin-in-stew-like-dishes phenomenon lately. really helps as a vegetarian!
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Icing Marksmanship
i second @lemonfair -- @betteirene, enlighten us!
Milk Bar Comes to Prospect Heights
Well, I know what I'm having for dinner, but I don't know how anything could possibly compete with Joyce.
Do Singles Bars Exist in NYC?
do Cougar Bars exist in NYC?
Responding to Competition, Starbucks Lowering Some Drink Prices
Lemme spread a bit of iced-coffee conspiracy theory on y'all. When you order an iced coffee at Starbucks, they fill your clear cup up to the top green line (about 2/3 full). So for a small iced coffee, retail price varied, you're getting 2/3 of a cup of coffee but you'll get a full cup when you order it hot.
Pissed and ready to test this theory, I've ordered iced coffee in a few lower Manhattan Starbucks and requested no ice. Results? No dice. "Sorry, we're only allowed to fill it up to the green line."
Try it out! So lower prices at Starbucks? Start with lowering the iced coffee price by 1/3.
Birthday Party for 15 in NYC?
I love Pongsri. My boyfriend took me there with our friends for my birthday, and the prices are great (close to $8 a plate) and are friendly for all types of eaters--even vegans. The food is GREAT and the ambience could be a little better but isn't awful. No real bar at the Chelsea Pongsri, but they do have drinks. Pongsri let us peaceably eat the cake we brought from Teany, too, even though some places will grumble or charge a fee for that.
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no, really, who in NYC is? I especially like Vegan cookies, so any hints are appreciated...:)
Candidate Ice Cream Flavors
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Dulce de Leche/Caramel Cheesecake in New York?
Eileen's Cheesecake is amazing!!
Dulce de Leche/Caramel Cheesecake in New York?
I haven't tried the Dulce De Leche cheesecak at Eileen's, but the other flavors I've tried have been wonderful.
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
Thanks! This sounds great. I like the additional ingredients that you added in.
Dulce de Leche/Caramel Cheesecake in New York?
Have you tried Junior's? They have an outpost in Grand Central.
Dulce de Leche/Caramel Cheesecake in New York?
@nataliepo, mmm that does sound wonderful. Thanks for the recommendation! I'll remember that.
However, I think I should clarify. I'm looking to buy an entire cheesecake for a friend's birthday dinner. So i'm looking for a bakery rather than a restaurant.
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
this recipe rocks! I made it as soon as I could after reading it. It's delicious. I tripled the spices.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
There's still tons of diners around here (Central NJ), at least a dozen within a 15 min. drive of my home.
The Skylark Diner on Rte. 1 in Edison is pretty good, however, I never drink diner coffee, so I can't speak to that.
Does anyone here know of Gilley's Lunch Wagon, Portsmouth, NH? An obscure reference, no doubt, but the best night owl diner of all time.
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
Also added some ready-made salsa to give it more tomato and liquid!
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
Wonderful recipe! I made this for dinner tonight, and it was quick, easy, and delicious--perfect for chilly fall nights. I also added a dash of cinnamon at the end and it added nice spice notes.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
In the eight years I've been living in New Jersey, I've been hoping to find the sort of diner that so many people pine for, but when I'm there, I just don't get it.
In any case, when I went from Edison to Princeton for some shopping this morning, I passed three diners and eight or nine Indian vegetarian places.
The diners are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
The best diner in New Jersey is the Americana in East Windsor, although it has gone sufficiently upscale that it's almost no longer a diner. Almost, but not quite. However, I cannot comment on its coffee, since I'm not a coffee drinker. My girlfriend seems to like it, however.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Jersey diner coffee isn't that unique--I went to uni in CT, and diners had the same coffee profile.
The Inkwell by the shore is another story...
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
One of my favorite childhood food memories is when my parents would pour diner coffee over my scoop of vanilla ice cream. And I'm embarrassed to admit, my nostalgic dish to go with diner coffee is french fries and Camel Lights.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
My parents started me on coffee at 3 yrs of age. Tall glass with lots of milk and sugar. @Gastronomeg has me beat with her early entry to the world of black coffee though. (why does every one put the @ before the screen name? I've never figured out the use for that)
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
my old go-to diner in park slope served their coffee in these annoying little orange plastic half-mugs lined with paper cones. i swear they held about 3 tablespoons of coffee. gosh, i miss that place!!!!
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
@Derekh - how have I never been to Bonbonniere!?! wow.
My first experience with coffee was generally the same. Though I inched into the real stuff from International Selects. And Dunkaccinos at Dunkin Donuts. And the 7-11 "French Vanilla." Until one day, probably my first year in college, when all of a sudden, it just tasted right.
We loved Denny's in Jersey too. I was always a little afraid as to what was actually in the coffee though. But it never hurt to throw a little syrup in there from the pancakes..
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
The first time I had coffee was in a cheesy hotel room with my parents. It was instant coffee. I tried it, and it was groooooooss. Almost as gross as beer.
And yet, here we are.
Great post. I'm from Arizona and the place for under-21-year-old nightowls to socialize was Denny's. So many coffee refills. So many "Eggs Over My Hammy" platters.
Another great greasy-spoon spot for the black stuff is Bonbonniere in the West Village.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
@Allison Hemler - You're alittle far south for me. In Essex County...
Versaille Diner
Livingston Diner
Ritz Diner
Tick Tock Diner
Tiffany Diner
Land and Sea Diner (RIP)
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Side note, here are my favorite Jersey diners.. in case anyone wants to reminisce and get a little bit more Jersey with me.
Broadway Diner, Red Bank
Broadway Diner, Bayonne
Edison Diner
Crystal Diner, Lawrenceville
Mastoris Diner, Bordentown
Princess Maria Diner, Wall Township
I'm so glad to hear about all these diners in NYC that I had no idea about!
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Yay diners!! The Waterview Diner in Howard Beach (Queens) was always my favorite, but sadly, it's no longer there.The long nights spent there after innumerable school functions are some of the most amazing memories I have. The Cross Bay Diner and the Esquire Diner (both still in HB) are pretty great, too.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
great piece..i grew up in jersey....the Edison Diner was my #1 go to then...now its the UWS so i go to the Key West..it definitely meets all the criteria
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
Another fact of diner coffee: a little puddle of coffee in the saucer below the cup from the waiter/waitress spilling it or over filling it.
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
i've been a black coffee drinker since i was 6 years old.
(i had asthma & it would help stave off an attack.)
i love it in all forms-and diner coffee definitely resonates with me.
(my fave is tom's diner in the dormont section of pittsburgh.)
Coffee Chronicles: Growing Up Jersey With Diner Coffee
I'm a born and raised Jersey boy, so diner eating is in my blood. Even though I enjoy good coffee and regularly hit up the Grand Central Joe the Art of Coffee during the week at work, there is always a place for diner coffee. During the weekends, I tend to hit either East Side Cafe (23rd and 1st) or Cosmos (23rd and 2nd). I also like Sunflower but its too hectic in there to be comfortable. Both serve endless cups of coffee and a decent enough plate of eggs or pancakes.
BTW.. you missed a whole heap of diners around Murray Hill/Gramercy. It seems like its the highest density of diners in Manhattan.
Euro Diner; Moonstruck; Sunflower; Lyric, Cosmo; East Side; Coopertown Diner all within 10 blocks of each other.
Healthy & Delicious: Pumpkin Turkey Chili
Do you think using butternut squash chunks, maybe 1 or 2 cups PLUS I cup canned pumpkin for thickening would be ok? I like the idea of 2 betacarotene sources but I don't want to over-thicken this chili. The picture makes me hungry!
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The Vanderbilt in Brooklyn has a DELICIOUS goatcheesecake. it's not caramel flavored but it's so good I had to mention it.