tavern on the green closed.
2x on Spumoni, go inside and get the scampi though. The pizza is overrated, doughy with not alot of cheese.
If you want bbq go to Brother Jimmy’s UES on sunday for all you can eat ribs. Get the dry rub.
[quote]clockworkchad wrote:
tavern on the green closed.[/quote]
It has been a while since Ive been there too, so Im not surpised. But too bad, it was good for what it was worth.
[quote]John Romaniello wrote:
For a really great burger, try 5 Napkin Burger in the Theater district on 45th and 9th ave. [/quote]
Oh, totally! I forgot about that place. We just ate there last month. I even love the “utilitarian” decor/atmosphere.
[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
2x on Spumoni, go inside and get the scampi though. The pizza is overrated, doughy with not alot of cheese.
If you want bbq go to Brother Jimmy’s UES on sunday for all you can eat ribs. Get the dry rub.[/quote]
Do all of Brooklyn a favor and stay in your useless state. The pizza is overrated? Are you out of your damn mind?
First of all it’s not ‘pizza’. It’s L&B. It’s completely different than pizza. What a clown.
I think we’ll be meandering around NYC for 4-5 hours or until we get tired of the cold. We fly into Newark. My friend, the travel agent, explained that NYC is basically across the bridge from where we’ll fly into Newark. I’m assuming these places will be easy to find?
And I’m not really looking for steak houses perse. And I’m not worried about the cost. But I want that food that you see on the Food Channel when they talk about great places to stop. So I’m looking to stuff my face with as much ‘awesome’ food as I can in the likes of pizza and hot dogs and sausages and hot links, etc. I do appreciate all the comments…please keep 'em comin. The bbq did sound good but we have so many bbq places here. Some not so good, but enough of 'em pretty darn good. I think in general, the south loves bbq.
Okay, so stop at:
Hallo Berlin sausage stand
Lombardi’s on Spring street
Zabar’s Bakery
5 Napkin Burger
Greys Papaya
On that note, you can stop at any Starbucks like all the other hobos once the diarreah kicks in. Jk! I think.
[quote]celibrate2047 wrote:
I think we’ll be meandering around NYC for 4-5 hours or until we get tired of the cold. We fly into Newark. My friend, the travel agent, explained that NYC is basically across the bridge from where we’ll fly into Newark. I’m assuming these places will be easy to find?
And I’m not really looking for steak houses perse. And I’m not worried about the cost. But I want that food that you see on the Food Channel when they talk about great places to stop. So I’m looking to stuff my face with as much ‘awesome’ food as I can in the likes of pizza and hot dogs and sausages and hot links, etc. I do appreciate all the comments…please keep 'em comin. The bbq did sound good but we have so many bbq places here. Some not so good, but enough of 'em pretty darn good. I think in general, the south loves bbq.
Okay, so stop at:
Hallo Berlin sausage stand
Lombardi’s on Spring street
Zabar’s Bakery
5 Napkin Burger
Greys Papaya[/quote]
I don’t think it’s that easy finding most of these places unless you have a well planned schedule. 4-5 hours will be tough to get it all done. Go on google maps and see how far apart the places on your list are from each other. If you take a cab from place to place youre looking at a $100 in fares. Subway is obviously much cheaper but good luck navigating it.
[quote]celibrate2047 wrote:
I think we’ll be meandering around NYC for 4-5 hours or until we get tired of the cold. We fly into Newark. My friend, the travel agent, explained that NYC is basically across the bridge from where we’ll fly into Newark. I’m assuming these places will be easy to find?
And I’m not really looking for steak houses perse. And I’m not worried about the cost. But I want that food that you see on the Food Channel when they talk about great places to stop. So I’m looking to stuff my face with as much ‘awesome’ food as I can in the likes of pizza and hot dogs and sausages and hot links, etc. I do appreciate all the comments…please keep 'em comin. The bbq did sound good but we have so many bbq places here. Some not so good, but enough of 'em pretty darn good. I think in general, the south loves bbq.
Okay, so stop at:
Hallo Berlin sausage stand
Lombardi’s on Spring street
Zabar’s Bakery
5 Napkin Burger
Greys Papaya[/quote]
Having been to both the Midwest and the South, I’ll say that if you bother to eat BBQ in NY, you’re wasting time.
You only have a few hours. Go to 5 Napkin Burger, walk around Times Square, and go to just about any corner pizza shop for a slice on the way out.
Don’t worry about finding “the best” pizza in New York.
I’ve been to pizza places all over this great nation, and I’ll tell you this: unless you get extremely unlucky, just about ANY pizza place you go into in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or most of North Jersey is going to be better than the rest of the ‘pizza’ you’ve been eating your entire life.
Truth.
I moved from NYC 26 years ago, so can’t speak to the pizza there today, but certainly the only times since I’ve had equally good pizza has been the few times I’ve been back in New York.
The basic taste of other pizzas just hasn’t been the same.
I’ve never been able to figure why someone who had run a successful pizza shop in NYC who happened to move to Florida didn’t start up a shop here and make pizza the same way. But it doesn’t happen.
To the OP: as others have already mentioned, you’re not going to be able to cover a wide ground in NYC in 5 hours except maybe as some kind of frenetic, hectic experience.
Coming in from Newark, why not focus on food places in the area of Greenwich Village (which includes Ray’s) up to about maybe 42nd Street, and going no further east than say 5th Avenue. There’s a world of possibilities within that area, and you won’t be wasting a huge amount of time making trips.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
I’ve never been able to figure why someone who had run a successful pizza shop in NYC who happened to move to Florida didn’t start up a shop here and make pizza the same way. But it doesn’t happen.
[/quote]
Some say it’s the water in NY.
Anyway, I would skip all random recommendations and eat at a Michelin 3 star that is not Daniel. Le Bernadin and Jean-Georges are the two cheaper ones (especially JG for lunch).
If you’re truly looking for a gastronomic feast why not use the most well respected authority on the matter? As well, both of those restaurants have top ratings from the NY Times and excellent ratings from the Michelin’s competitor, the Gayot (Gault-Miliau).
I wouldn’t say it’s right across the bridge. It’s going to take you about 45 minutes each way, so that will basically leave you with just a few hours time.
You’ve got a great list to work from here, so I’d suggest plotting them on a map and sorting out what type of food and how many stops you want to make. Obviously, sit-down restaurants are going to take longer and limit what you can do.
DB
[quote]celibrate2047 wrote:
I think we’ll be meandering around NYC for 4-5 hours or until we get tired of the cold. We fly into Newark. My friend, the travel agent, explained that NYC is basically across the bridge from where we’ll fly into Newark. I’m assuming these places will be easy to find?
And I’m not really looking for steak houses perse. And I’m not worried about the cost. But I want that food that you see on the Food Channel when they talk about great places to stop.
So I’m looking to stuff my face with as much ‘awesome’ food as I can in the likes of pizza and hot dogs and sausages and hot links, etc. I do appreciate all the comments…please keep 'em comin. The bbq did sound good but we have so many bbq places here. Some not so good, but enough of 'em pretty darn good. I think in general, the south loves bbq.
Okay, so stop at:
Hallo Berlin sausage stand
Lombardi’s on Spring street
Zabar’s Bakery
5 Napkin Burger
Greys Papaya[/quote]
Hallo Berlin is great. Never got to eat there but I drank there. Last time I was there I had a 2 humpens of koestritzer and shots of some jager type of drink. I was hammered.
You want AWESOME, high-end, but REAL Italian? I’m not talking cheesy red-sauce “Italian,” I’m talking the best veal osso bucco on earth, amazingly creative pasta sauces and dishes, perfect beef tartare, fantastically flavorful pork that falls apart on your plate, EVERYTHING fantastic in a cool, warm-feeling little place in the Village (where you’ll often bump into a celeb or two because the place is just AWESOME)?
Make a reservation at Da Silvano. It’s on 6th Ave just north of Houston. Forget Zagat’s, forget the tourist traps . . . people who KNOW, know. Best Italian in the City, hands down.
Not cheap, but OH so worth it.
[quote]johnnytang24 wrote:
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
I’ve never been able to figure why someone who had run a successful pizza shop in NYC who happened to move to Florida didn’t start up a shop here and make pizza the same way. But it doesn’t happen.
[/quote]
Some say it’s the water in NY.
Anyway, I would skip all random recommendations and eat at a Michelin 3 star that is not Daniel. Le Bernadin and Jean-Georges are the two cheaper ones (especially JG for lunch).
If you’re truly looking for a gastronomic feast why not use the most well respected authority on the matter? As well, both of those restaurants have top ratings from the NY Times and excellent ratings from the Michelin’s competitor, the Gayot (Gault-Miliau). [/quote]
It is the water, as mentioned. They actually did a test where they made NY and Chicago style pizza with water from both those cities, and one other. The judges were some celebrities foodies–the dude from Queer Eye (he’s been on Iron Chef as well), NY celeb Mario Cantone and a few others.
Not only did the NY water pizzas win hands down, but each judge was able to detect which had the NY water, without exception.
Bill - your fellow New Jersian and our fellow TMuscle contributor Joel Marion actually moved to Tampa, Florida recently. Two blocks from his apartment, there is a pizza shop called “NY Pizza.” Joel is in love with the place and dragged me there saying it actually tasted like NY pizza. I didn’t believe him, obviously.
I was wrong.
So I asked the owner, of course.
He has NY water trucked and flown in twice per month, every month. He went without it one month due to a shipping problem and all of his customers noticed immediately.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]celibrate2047 wrote:
I think we’ll be meandering around NYC for 4-5 hours or until we get tired of the cold. We fly into Newark. My friend, the travel agent, explained that NYC is basically across the bridge from where we’ll fly into Newark. I’m assuming these places will be easy to find?
And I’m not really looking for steak houses perse. And I’m not worried about the cost. But I want that food that you see on the Food Channel when they talk about great places to stop. So I’m looking to stuff my face with as much ‘awesome’ food as I can in the likes of pizza and hot dogs and sausages and hot links, etc. I do appreciate all the comments…please keep 'em comin. The bbq did sound good but we have so many bbq places here. Some not so good, but enough of 'em pretty darn good. I think in general, the south loves bbq.
Okay, so stop at:
Hallo Berlin sausage stand
Lombardi’s on Spring street
Zabar’s Bakery
5 Napkin Burger
Greys Papaya[/quote]
I don’t think it’s that easy finding most of these places unless you have a well planned schedule. 4-5 hours will be tough to get it all done. Go on google maps and see how far apart the places on your list are from each other. If you take a cab from place to place youre looking at a $100 in fares. Subway is obviously much cheaper but good luck navigating it. [/quote]
Nah, I think it can be done in 4-5 hours. The NY subway system is hands down the most comprehensive mass transit system in the world (and we have a lot of dumb asses living in this city to prove it). But as someone else stated, getting to Newark is a bitch of a ride, so that might eat up a bit of time.
Zabar’s is way up on the west side tho, so how you to include that is beyond me. You can totally do (in this order) Hallo, 5 napkin, Greys on 14th and then Lombardi’s then get in a cab and scuttle over to Newark. But some of these places are sit down, so again there’s a time issue.
Tough call. This might be a lofty endeavor OP…
Maybe you can do, Katz’, Lombardi’s, grey’s papaya, which are all relatively quick eats and around the same neighborhood…
edit: I meant Grey’s on 6th ave and 8th st.
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
2x on Spumoni, go inside and get the scampi though. The pizza is overrated, doughy with not alot of cheese.
If you want bbq go to Brother Jimmy’s UES on sunday for all you can eat ribs. Get the dry rub.[/quote]
Do all of Brooklyn a favor and stay in your useless state. The pizza is overrated? Are you out of your damn mind?
First of all it’s not ‘pizza’. It’s L&B. It’s completely different than pizza. What a clown.
[/quote]
Originally from Bay Ridge, j-o.
And yeah their pizza is fucking overrated, go to La Casa Bella on Cropsey if you want a loaded slice. Not some doughy square high school cafeteria bulshit.
I saw two suggestions in order of ease of location. This one seemed to include the most food: Hallo, 5 napkin, Greys on 14th and then Lombardi’s
And I’ll take pics so you guys can’t say it didn’t happen
[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
[quote]ADvanced TS wrote:
2x on Spumoni, go inside and get the scampi though. The pizza is overrated, doughy with not alot of cheese.
If you want bbq go to Brother Jimmy’s UES on sunday for all you can eat ribs. Get the dry rub.[/quote]
Do all of Brooklyn a favor and stay in your useless state. The pizza is overrated? Are you out of your damn mind?
First of all it’s not ‘pizza’. It’s L&B. It’s completely different than pizza. What a clown.
[/quote]
Originally from Bay Ridge, j-o.
And yeah their pizza is fucking overrated, go to La Casa Bella on Cropsey if you want a loaded slice. Not some doughy square high school cafeteria bulshit. [/quote]
Casa bella is horrible. Their marinara tastes like ketchup with sugar and oregano added and their pizza is OK.
I’m really wondering if there’s anyone else here hearing you say that L&B is ‘cafeteria bullshit’ and getting a chuckle out of it. Seriously you lived in bay ridge and went all the way to cropsey ave to get pizza? Mental instability.
No more hijacking. I clearly know what I’m talking about and you don’t.
Bonez217, should I work my list backwards so I hit Lomabardi’s first? I’m assuming L&B is Lambardis?