How is Motorino these days? I haven’t been there in a while. Worth a visit or no?
No.
Love Shopsins! What a ‘dining experience’ as well as great sandwiches. But if f-bombs both OP may want to stay away. lol.
Also love Babbo and they do lunch now.
Thanks for the thread bump to the (NEW!) New York board!
Oyster bar in grand central is like lex luthors lair but with oysters. East coast well represented. Belons.
Big gay ice cream…supposedly coming to la. Who doesn’t want to eat bea Arthur?
Always like Barney greengrass if on UWS. Great sable and latkes.
I love Grand Central Oyster Bar.
Isn’t Big Gay Ice Cream still going strong at the Upstairs Lounge at the Ace Hotel in L.A.? Or did that close shop?
I was always partial to the sturgeon at Barney Greengrass UWS.
Pretty sure they changed to own soft serve and now maybe done. I thought BGI was going to do a storefront but I don’t see any.
They don’t call him the sturgeon king for nothin!
Oh and I can’t stop myself with the Katz pastrami egg rolls at redfarm downtown. This is what New Yorkers have to do cuz they don’t have oki’s dog.
I went to Big Gay Ice Cream quite some time ago and found the ice cream uninteresting, with the chief selling point being the toppings. It wasn’t worth waiting on line for. More recently, people on Chowhound have said the quality of the ice cream there has deteriorated and the place is no better than mediocre.
If you want great ice cream in that neighborhood, you can either go to the very interesting Odd Fellows on 4th St. between 2nd and Bowery, which is an outpost of their Williamsburg location and has a limited but always interesting selection, or if you like gelato, go to Il Laboratorio di Gelato on the corner of Houston and Ludlow, right across the street from Katz’s. Il Laboratorio has something like 256 flavors, with a few dozen on offer each day.
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I like soft serve
Anyone do it better?
Blythe Ann’s.
Even though it’s vegan. The best soft-serve.
So that’s a no?
I jest. Will check it out. A la dole whip?
No, not at all.
If you weren’t told it was dairy-free, you wouldn’t know it.
I have come to the conclusion that soft-serve is almost better without the addition of dairy or eggs.
Cool need to check it out.
U ever hit any of those Indian spots near there
Only one that I’ve been to is Punjabi (down the street on Avenue A), where they make what I like to think of as the “Frito Pie” version of samosa chaat.
Good, cheap, homey grub. Microwaved to order. Open 24 hours.
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Odd Fellows is soft-serve, I believe. It is certainly not gelato.
The place is actually called Punjab. It’s perfectly OK and a good value, a bit salty, and sometimes, the microwave doesn’t heat everything through and through. I usually go there late on nights when I’ve been drinking south of Houston, feel a little tipsy and have the munchies.
I closed my eyes. I`m one of them
Start the day healthy with
Abraço Espresso drip coffee and an olive cookie or pound cake
il Buco Alimentari & Vineria boboloni (filled or not)
Runner and Stone Almond Croissant followed by slices of Miche and butter
Lunch
Pearls Fish Sandwich and Steamers Di Faras Grab a slice
Arcade Plain Pizza and Lemon Brioche thing
Dinner
Chaing Mai Jackfruit curry, Pork Mok, Kao Soi
Sassm Bar Porgy, Ham Plate