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  1. Steve R.
    I don’t get it. Why is Betts going to the Dodgers? Aren’t the Yankees supposed to get all of Boston’s stars?
  2. Steve R.
    Most of the really good by the slice places are in Brooklyn and some are in areas that will take too much time to get to unless you really, really want pizza. And some of the very good Manhattan places, like Keste, are pies only. But I can give names if either of those options appeal to you. Specific to Midtown East -- I got nothin'. On a completely other thread drift note, if you have a hankering for a very unusual sandwich place (with short hours) in the East Village, some friends of mine opened Foxface on E.8th off of 1st Ave. Some of the past special sandwiches have included camel, snapping turtle, elk.... well, you get the idea: https://www.instagram.com/foxface_nyc/. If the owners are there (Sivan or Ori), tell them Steve R. sent you and you'll get the special surcharge added on.
  3. Steve R.
    I assume that you want Manhattan and slices (not pies). So, here's one that some trusted friends (& Eater) are recommending on the Lower East Side:
  4. Steve R.
    We may be around that week & I haven't been to Flushing in awhile so maybe we can arrange to join you for some hole in the wall food. Meanwhile, let me link you to a couple of blogs that you can read thru (if you don't know them already). Both cover all of NYC but have a bit of Flushing coverage: https://www.eatingintranslation.com/flushing/ Dave Cook is a friend whom I've gone to Flushing (& lots of elsewhere) with over the years &, if the timing works out, maybe a group dinner can be arranged. http://www.eattheworldnyc.com/search/label/Flushing. Jared also has high credibility & is worth reading And, although he's now in the business of doing food tours, Joe D. has written up some Flushing places in http://chopsticksandmarrow.com/about/ that are worth reading (some might be out of date). By the time you get here, the downstairs Golden Mall might be re-opened. It'll probably be a very cleaned up version, unlike the place where Bourdain "discovered" the first Xi'an Noodle stall or the where the Dumpling Lady (http://www.dumplinggalaxy.com) had her 1st stall, but we'll see. And, lastly, although I haven't been in a couple of years, I used to really like Fu Run (4009 Prince St) & Golden Palace Gourmet (140-09 Cherry Ave), a couple of DongBei restaurants that have gotten very mixed reviews since (from unknown yelp'ers etc) but may well still be good. Enough? Let me know.
  5. Steve R.
    Wow. Great stuff -- just the kinds of things I need to know. Forget the rest of your day/life... keep writing 😏 Thanks.
  6. Steve R.
    Le St-Urbain is on our list, as it was highly recommended by several other friends. I’m glad to hear that you also liked it. Thank you for your post.
  7. Steve R.
    Got your map - great... thanks. It seems that we're in the same range and interest, as we're a cross from upper moderate to store front mom & pop places. I'm an old Chowhound person & the key is finding interesting, tasty, well made & non-fussy food. In NYC, that means from Flushing Chinatown dives & many ethnic enclaves up to Gramercy Tavern. Just about never in the high end stuff (Per Se, etc). Curious why everyone really loves Damas - we have many local Syrian, Lebanese, Yemen and other middle eastern places around us and we're definitely interested to go to find out. If you're curious about us and want to waste time, take a look at the listing I posted about our stay in Paris last May. Sort of looks like your Montreal list in my opinion. We get around, so we weren't so concerned about which neighborhood in Montreal to stay in. We'll get to all of them, as well as some places outside of the city. We rented an apt. in the high rise next to the Bell Center. It's a 2 bedroom & has 2 bathrooms (crucial to our marriage remaining viable), has a garage parking space, a roof deck, a terrace and is over the Metro & underground city. We'll do a lot of walking and get to both Atwater and Jean Talon Markets. No dog (allergies). Too much info? Again, thanks. eta: Weezy - thanks for the Soupe des Artes info. Sounds like a plan.
  8. Steve R.
    Looking forward to your comments. Much appreciated.
  9. Steve R.
    So, 8+ years later, when I'm finally going to spend several nights in QC, this place closes 2 months ago. Oh well. Anyone got any other wine bar ideas? Or restaurants (already interested in going to Le Pied Bleu, L'Affaire Est Ketchup (really) & Le Continental). Thanks.
  10. Steve R.
    Its only January, but we just rented an apartment in Montreal for the month of May (we're driving up from NYC, stopping in Glens Falls for a couple of nights so my wife can revisit where she lived as a child). At any rate, except for 3-4 nights in Quebec City, we'll be needing recommendations on restaurants, places to see, some nearby day trips, etc. to fill the month. No need to recap what's already been said on this thread -- I've read every word of it & took notes. But, if anyone has any place that they've eaten at in the past year or so that isn't one of the places that I should be expected to know about (I'm talkin' Joe Beef, Pied De Cochon, L'Express, Nora Gray, Le Quartier General....), please share (I'm looking at you mnnchas & Mark D.). Same goes for Quebec City. For other than eats, please send me a message if there's no other appropriate place on the boards. Thanks.
  11. Steve R.
    Kaepernick?
  12. Steve R.
    Hey, I'm even older than Dean (only 3 or 4 years) but I've been drinking wine since 1970. If you count Mateus (the bottle made a great candle holder). All these years later, I can now renew my disdain for many "experts", as they are focused on "natural" fizzy, cloudy stuff without any body.
  13. Steve R.
    Keep drinking.
  14. Steve R.
    It’s not really risky, as there’s no expectation that he’ll be pitching thru the entire contract. It’s a deferred income scheme that allows a team to pay out salary over an extended period but allows the player to get a new contract for more $$ if, for some reason, he’s still a good pitcher after 5 years.
  15. Steve R.
    The Yankees win, the Yankees win! Well, only if the contest is most $$$ spent on a pitcher's contract. Seems we got Cole for 9 years. I think MLB should require players to play out their contract and set up a geriatric or "burn-out" league for them to play exhibition games. Nine years!
  16. Steve R.
    Good article, good game (I watched a lot of it). Tangentially, what makes the Heisman contest interesting to me is that all 3 QBs are transfers. In my lifetime watching major pro sports, I've learned that this year's Red Sox is next year's Yankee & that longevity as a team is no longer a thing. But, now I'm used to "1& out" college basketball & getting used to watching excellent college football players change teams as well. It's one thing for me to try to accept that Durant & Kyrie Irving are now "home team", its another to look at my alma mater that way. Lucky it wasn't a Div. I school then and isn't a contender now either.
  17. Steve R.
    My wife went to see "Parasite" with a friend (she liked the first part and then thought "the movie became a mess" & "missed the target") so I haven't gone. Had I known that his previous film was "Snowpiercer", I wouldn't have gone twice. Boy, did I hate that movie. If a discussion develops here, I'll think back & try to remember specifics; otherwise, I'd just as soon let the bad overall memory lie in peace.
  18. Steve R.
    Melo's respect from other players has been constant for his entire career. I think they all saw the raw talent & have always been wowed by it (same as Kyrgios). It never translated into rings but it was there in a way that mesmerized. If he had the team around him that Isiah Thomas or Michael Jordan had when he was coming out of college, it would've been incredible to watch. He wasn't the ball hog he became. The respect for him today is a hold over, as he's nothing like he was then, restricted by an aging body. I'll still be talking about watching Kyrgios hit in practice sessions, long after his aging legs stop allowing for him to get to impossible wrist flick shots & no one will understand why I talk about him as a great player. And I believe that many other All-Star NBA players would've loved to play with him in his prime. But, hey, just my fantasy/alternate reality opinion.
  19. Steve R.
    I love watching Kyrgios. The man has such natural talent and can hit almost impossible shots with ease. But I don't expect him to hold it together enough to ever win more than a handful (if that) of meaningful tournaments. I think its much the same with Carmelo. I watched him play college for that one year and was wowed. Couldn't wait to see him play in the NBA and become a star. And he didn't disappoint me in showing that talent. But he never could make a team better or put them on his shoulders enough. Bottom line is that I think other players see just how great a player he is and, for them, its all about admiring it without reference to whether he has rings or not. Watching other top players around Kyrgios you get the same feeling. Awe and respect.
  20. Steve R.
    You missed the follow up song to "Last Train to Clarksville" where the singer discovers that the train crashed, killing all aboard. Apparently, some girl had said she was in a rush to get there so the engineer "stepped on it". Didn't sell much. eta: of course, there's also the Neil Young repetoire, including "Needle and the Damage Done", "Ohio" and especially "Down By the River".
  21. Steve R.
    I have absolutely no disagreement with that. Glad you enjoyed it. And, glad you dug up that article. This story is, indeed, a landmine that touches on way more than which is the best pizza and probably would've made a good diversion episode on a couple of TV series. Old Brooklyn at its best. If anyone has any interest, pm me and I'll spin the tale for you. (as an aside, one of the apartments in the building on the corner of that block toward the water, served as Jimmy Smits run-down place when he played a cop in NYPD Blue. Pre-Shake Shack and gentrification).
  22. Steve R.
    Okay, this post (unlike the Yonah Shimmel one) I can weigh in on, as there are lots of excellent pizza places using lots of kinds of ovens in existence in this immediate neighborhood. I know this because I live in the immediate neighborhood (Brooklyn Heights, 10 blocks away). It's "okay". Its a long story, but Grimaldi's is not owned by Patsy Grimaldi, who retired and sold the name years ago. However, due to some really fun Brooklyn story stuff, he came out of retirement and opened Juliana's, which is right next door. I'm glad you liked Grimaldi's, but most locals agree that Juliana's is better. So there. (of course, the above is written without too much seriousness since, if you enjoyed the experience and the food, the rest is just internet chatter) Next time, let me know you're in the neighborhood. I'll show you around.
  23. Steve R.
    I've been around too long. When food boards started (about 20 years ago now?) Yonah Shimmel was already off everyone's list. They had opened (& closed) ill advised branches around the city and the product was less than acceptable to those of us who a)considered ourselves experts on artisanal &/or ethnic food & b)grew up & still lived with knishes everywhere. So, having read your (pras) posting here, I started figuring out what to say in response, how to let you down easily, how to.... well, you know. Then, a bolt of light inside my head (someone tripped on the dimmer switch I guess) and it occurred to me that I couldn't recommend a better knish place in NYC. Not in Brooklyn, where I was raised (in a Jewish neighborhood), and not in any other part of the city. Yes, there are glatt kosher neighborhood places that I know of (& tried), but YS is probably not worse. It is one of the last remaining vestiges of something we all took for granted. I'll have to go back. You did good.
  24. Steve R.
    So, in 1970 I started college at Stony Brook University on Long Island (then called SUNY Stony Brook). I was always very good in math, getting into the advanced classes early on through High School. On my SATs, I scored 793 (out of 800) on the math part, having missed only one answer - and I knew which one walking out of the exam. (I mean, who cares how to calculate the water volume of a fish tank with f-ck'ing goldfish anyway?! - not that I've held onto this). At any rate, I chose Stony Brook because it had a lot of good concerts, was close enough to drive into NYC for late Chinatown runs, and had lots of opportunity for alternate and enhanced reality adventures. Once there, I never took a math class, majored in English Lit., heard more music than my ears could withstand, played various sports (Rollie Massimino, the basketball coach there during my freshman year even congratulated me on being good enough in tennis and squash to not mind his frank assessment of my chances to get on the basketball team) & was politically active. Four very fun years. In today's WSJ there is a nice article about Jim Simons. It notes his early career as a Math Professor at Stony Brook and mentions all the Stony Brook mathematicians who worked for and with him over the years. I even knew one or two of them. They were all there during my 1970-4 stay. Talk about a path unfollowed.... jeez! What was(n't) I thinking.
  25. Steve R.
    Well then. Can’t say I saw that coming. Nice job. Congrats.
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