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post #46 of 60
1/30/09 at 8:10pm
If you choose to go to Billy's, get the cupcakes, it's what they are good at. The non-cupcake things I had there left a lot to be desired.
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post #47 of 60
1/30/09 at 8:14pm
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Originally Posted by blackplatano View Post
If you choose to go to Billy's, get the cupcakes, it's what they are good at. The non-cupcake things I had there left a lot to be desired.
I've had a chocolate scone one morning there with a cup of coffee and it was far better than their cupcakes (decadent as diorshoenuff would say - my guess is that it contained 60% chocolate and 40% dough). All the big cakes though seem pretty nasty and the cheescakes are ugh
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post #48 of 60
1/30/09 at 8:51pm
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I've had a chocolate scone one morning there with a cup of coffee and it was far better than their cupcakes (decadent as diorshoenuff would say - my guess is that it contained 60% chocolate and 40% dough). All the big cakes though seem pretty nasty and the cheescakes are ugh



Yea, I don't doubt you since last thing I had was the cheesecake. Cold, hard, stale. Far from decadent.
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post #49 of 60
1/30/09 at 8:53pm
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Is it blasphemy to fly some bagels home and freeze them?
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post #50 of 60
1/30/09 at 9:24pm
I dont like frozen bagels but I know crusty old new yorkers who freeze them, even though they live 4 blocks from where they get them
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post #51 of 60
1/30/09 at 10:17pm
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I dont like frozen bagels but I know crusty old new yorkers who freeze them, even though they live 4 blocks from where they get them

Ohhh I dont like going awwwwlllll the way down to 50th street its soooo fawwwrrrrrrr. I get awalll my bagels once a week and I freeezeee the rest. I like to shmeeearrrr my bagellllssss. *Insert Random Jewish Comment Here*, Dreidel, matza, bloomingdales, et cetera.
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post #52 of 60
1/31/09 at 2:12am
there's nothing wrong with freezing them at home - as long as you don't live near a great bagel place and as long as you toast them after you defrost them.
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post #53 of 60
1/31/09 at 1:31pm
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there's nothing wrong with freezing them at home - as long as you don't live near a great bagel place and as long as you toast them after you defrost them.
You might want to visit brooklyn heights while you're in town, about a 5-10 minute subway ride from wall st. Its worth walking down montague street to the promenade which has a million dollar view of lower manhattan, tool around henry and garden place to look at the brownstones. From an eating point of view, grimaldi's pizza is walking distance but if you walk down to atlantic avenue, there are remnants of the middle eastern restaurants that used to dominate the neighborhood. Sahdi's is terrific middle eastern grocery with great spices, olives, cheese, grains, etc. Walking towards court st, there is a middle eastern bakery with great, well priced pastry that travel well on a plane. After the bakery, head up to court, make a right to cross over to cobble hill and walk down to court pastry for arguably the best Italian pastry shop in NYC. You'll see lots of well priced restaurants and cafes on the way to the pastry shop. Whats nice about this little side trip is that you are out of the tourist mainstream and will be visiting a real nyc neighborhood.
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post #54 of 60
1/31/09 at 1:36pm
There's a few nice cheese shops in the city that may carry something you don't have at home, assuming you are a fan of cheese.
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post #55 of 60
1/31/09 at 1:44pm
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There's a few nice cheese shops in the city that may carry something you don't have at home, assuming you are a fan of cheese.

i live in the city but i have yet to scope out a truly magnificent cheese shop - any suggestions?
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post #56 of 60
1/31/09 at 4:43pm
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Pastrami, brisket, bagels?
Where do you get good brisket in NYC? I've never run across that.
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post #57 of 60
1/31/09 at 5:14pm
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Where do you get good brisket in NYC? I've never run across that.
I'm by no mean an expert but the usual suspects (Katz, Carnegie, Ben's, Stage...) ? For BBQ brisket, Hill Country sells by the pound - but I don't think that's what someone would bring home from NYC
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post #58 of 60
2/1/09 at 12:01am
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i live in the city but i have yet to scope out a truly magnificent cheese shop - any suggestions?
i would think bedford cheese shop, in williamsburg, or murray's in the village, would be good stops for a cheeselover. and saxelby (sp.?) cheesemonger in the essex st. market is supposed to be great, too. the cheese counter at dean and deluca, also.
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post #59 of 60
2/1/09 at 12:49am
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I'm by no mean an expert but the usual suspects (Katz, Carnegie, Ben's, Stage...) ? For BBQ brisket, Hill Country sells by the pound - but I don't think that's what someone would bring home from NYC
Thanks. I've never had anything but BBQ brisket. I have had Hill Country and it is respectable fpr BBQ brisket although, having grown up in Texas, I've had better there for about 1/3 the price. I'll have to try the others.
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post #60 of 60
2/2/09 at 4:15am
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You might want to visit brooklyn heights while you're in town, about a 5-10 minute subway ride from wall st. Its worth walking down montague street to the promenade which has a million dollar view of lower manhattan, tool around henry and garden place to look at the brownstones. From an eating point of view, grimaldi's pizza is walking distance but if you walk down to atlantic avenue, there are remnants of the middle eastern restaurants that used to dominate the neighborhood.

Sahdi's is terrific middle eastern grocery with great spices, olives, cheese, grains, etc. Walking towards court st, there is a middle eastern bakery with great, well priced pastry that travel well on a plane. After the bakery, head up to court, make a right to cross over to cobble hill and walk down to court pastry for arguably the best Italian pastry shop in NYC. You'll see lots of well priced restaurants and cafes on the way to the pastry shop.

Whats nice about this little side trip is that you are out of the tourist mainstream and will be visiting a real nyc neighborhood.

YES!!!!

Best Bagels on Montague St is open 24 hours and has some pretty good bagels including my favorite, the hard-to-find whole wheat with sesame seeds. Grab a few hot ones and head on down to the promenade any morning, its great. Of course, going to law school in Brooklyn, I took advantage of the $2 Ballantyne tall-boys, 22oz Coronas and, when the situation dictated, the good ol' 40 oz. Nothing says Jewish NY law student like a fresh bagel and lox along with a non-descript paper bag walking home as the good people are first heading out to work.

In Chelsea there is the Brooklyn Bagel Cafe. The staff is not the brightest but the bagels are very good, and very big. Went up to H&H a few weeks back, ate one right out of the bag, very good but more expensive than anywhere else. If you can still get a mortgage, go up to Barney Greengrass.
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