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une bon goût vie
Stephanie L.
Location: New York
Blog Posts: 6
Member Since: 10/26/2007
Favorite Cuisine:
anything tasty
Recent Eats
Nov 10th
Nov 9th
Nov 7th
Oct 30th
Oct 30th
Ostia Tapeo Restaurant
Dinner. Eclectic decor with cute chalk board back wall mapping Spain. Wide selection of tapas with classics like cured ham carved at your table and excellent sangria. Spotty service for a night with only a few patrons. Probably more fun with a group.
Ostia Tapeo Restaurant
113 7th Ave. S. (bet. Christopher & W. 10th St.)
New York, 10014
Tel: (212)924-2305
Pink Pony
Brunch. Filled with LES hipsters. Hearty mains(large omelettes, meaty sandwiches), but they scrimp on any extras. A "Paris bistro" feel, with used books lining the wall, antique ceiling fans, cramped cozy seating. Worth a revisit for lunch/dinner.
Pink Pony
178 Ludlow Street (Between Houston and Stanton)
New York, 10002
Tel: (212) 253-1922
Pure Americana, in the taste and the portion sizes.
To be fair to the title, I went to the original Jackson Hole for dinner with a bunch of people whose goal was to eat like 300 lb truckers. Thus, our massive caloric intake was as much intended as readily available.
When we arrived to this old-school, hole-in-the-wall, low-ceilings eatery they had already fully decorated for Halloween. If you've ever been to Jackson Hole before, you already know memorabilia bedecks the walls, so the chintz factor was squared with all the fake cobwebs, bat, and ghouls.
The menu that evening consisted of a burger each (cheeseburger, Wyoming, and a bacon mushroom), a green salad, a side of chili fries, a side of onion rings, and a milk shake each. Our goal was simple, finish ALL THE FOOD. While each dish was basically a meal in itself (especially the chili fries covered in orange processed cheese), everyone pulled their weight but me, having only eaten 75% of my burger by the end of the night. I've never found Jackson Hole burgers particularly easy to eat. They use the tried and true method of gigantic beef balls grilled on one side, flipped and smushed, then steam cooked under a bowl. The result is a beef patty that can't fit in your mouth and is just too beefy. I tried best as I could, but just was not able to finish it.
All the food was good, comforting, and in gigantic proportions, so one should always go to Jackson Hole with at least 3 other people who don't mind ingesting fried and fatty foods. But, it never fails to be good times :)
Jackson Hole
232 E. 64th St. (bet. 2nd & 3rd Ave.)
New York, 10021
Tel: (212)371-7187
If you can be satisfied on hype, well then you're okay...
Arriving after 9pm on a Thursday night at a place so full of it's own coolness is worth the stated "20 minute wait". Standing with a bunch of after-hour suits for 45 minutes while the extremely attractive hostessess walk back and forth is not. Once we were actually seated, you find yourself in the extremely secluded and much quieter upstairs room, with perfunctory cherry blossoms decorating the walls coupled with hanging metal curtains, which one can only hope is an attempt at a fusion with modernity.
We had a so-so monk fish liver with uni appeteizer, followed by a parade of forgetable rolls and an overly diverse and really disappointing chirashi, and the highlight of the entire meal was the mochi dessert. Another plus, the extremely exstensive sake menu. I'm always happy to be seated and eat food, but when the time you need to wait for a menu, to order, to get a single dish of food, is always at least 15 minutes long, something is seriously wrong.
At the end of the night, all I wanted to do was get out of that place with it's too narrow walk ways, crappy "fake chic" food, drawn out to a snails pace service, and overpriced everything.
Geisha
33 E. 61st St. (bet. Madison & Park Ave.)
New York, 10021
Tel: (212)813-1112
Yama
Lunch. Service: always polite and with a smile; food: you get what you expect. I love my neighborhood Yama because it's intimate and chill and you're never disappointed by the food. The lunch special is also a bargain for $13.
Yama
308 E. 49th St. (bet. 1st & 2nd Ave.)
New York, 10017
Tel: (212)355-3370
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