An Introduction to Brooklyn Food
One Manhattanite recently posted on Chowhound’s Outer Borough board to get some recommendations for restaurants that will introduce her to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Lots of Brooklyn-based Chowhounders are responding, and of course, DiFara’s pizza is getting a lot of recommendations. We’re with Chowhounder Peter, who puts in votes for “Applewood, 360…
One Manhattanite recently posted on Chowhound’s Outer Borough board to get some recommendations for restaurants that will introduce her to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Lots of Brooklyn-based Chowhounders are responding, and of course, DiFara’s pizza is getting a lot of recommendations. We’re with Chowhounder Peter, who puts in votes for “Applewood, 360 and Locanda Vini and Olii because they’re all so unexpected — they’re little oases of deliciousness where one wouldn’t expect to find such a gem of a restaurant.” But a couple of Chowhounds are recommending places that we’ve yet to visit…
Chowhounder Oohla says, “For over the top fun, try one of the Russian cabaret lounges in Brighton Beach.” The food can be pretty good and the entertainment can’t be matched in Manhattan.” Another poster, who goes by the odd moniker Gangly Handful, chimes in, “Ba Xuyen in Sunset Park for the hands-down best bahn mi.”
So, should we be making plans to visit the cabaret lounges and this bahn mi joint? And when you’re introducing newcomers to Brooklyn, where do you take them to dinner?
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Le Toukouleur on Bedford and Qincy is clearly a must eat for anyone looking to experience a french chef who is making a statement in the kitchen and wants to keep their dollars in Brooklyn. Easy parking makes it a real treat for drivers.
I went to DiFara’s and there was almost no one there. Maybe I just picked the right time. Who knows? It was good, but was it the BEST EVER? I don’t think so.
You mean the Brooklyn Bridge. Not the Manhattan Bridge.
For a Brooklyn experience, it’s hard to beat calling ahead to Grimaldi’s, ordering pizza to pick up (usually about 15 minutes), waltzing past that big line, and then eating your pizza on the ferry landing at dusk with the bridge and Manhattan spread out before you.
In the summer, of course.
Rasputin is major fun and decent food.
I’d never subject a non-native to DiFara’s ritual hazing (the 2-hr wait); if we’re going to stand around waiting for pizza, we do it at Patsy’s (or is it Grimaldi’s? they argue so much about it I’ve forgotten), the one under the Manhattan Bridge, since you can sop up the killer views, watch water taxis and limo’s of cute Chinese wedding parties unload on the pier, and then walk over for ice cream and check out the Walt Whitman quotes afterwards. Plus the old fellow there tends to scold you for taking up a table too long, which perversely thrilled a recent visitor from VT–she got to experience “real” New York rudeness!
Enough with the DiFara’s publicity. There’s already a two hour wait for a pie!
i always take out-of-towners to ferdinando’s in carroll gardens/red hook for lunch. i recommend their pannelle special plus a manhattan special (on tap!) — the place has been around forever and it still feels like old school brooklyn.
Wow, I’m famous. 😉