Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up
“Uber-Audible Ice Cream Truck” by amanda.mccreary Ice Cream Truck Jingles: Hot or Not? “One group of concerned citizens in Brooklyn is taking action against the incessant, insipid jingles reverberating on all sides of McCarren Park. They’ve put up signs decrying the noise pollution, and formed a Yahoo Group to share and document their noise complaint…
“Uber-Audible Ice Cream Truck” by amanda.mccreary
Ice Cream Truck Jingles: Hot or Not?
“One group of concerned citizens in Brooklyn is taking action against the incessant, insipid jingles reverberating on all sides of McCarren Park. They’ve put up signs decrying the noise pollution, and formed a Yahoo Group to share and document their noise complaint calls to 311 and the local precinct,” says Gothamist. But Miss Heather of New York Shitty says, “The 94th Precinct (understaffed as it is) has better things to do than chase ice cream trucks. Get over it.” Whose side are you on?
In related news: Grub Street reports, “This past weekend, aspiring Mister Softee Nick Morgenstern unveiled the cart he plans to station outside his Fort Greene restaurant, the General Greene, all summer.”
News from reBar and Kif
Gothamist also says that Lori D’Agostino (formerly of Loulou) is now cooking at reBar (147 Front Street, Dumbo), and her menu includes “whole-roasted Idaho Brook Trout, Prince Edward Island Mussels with Coconut Curry Sauce, and molasses-brined Pork Tenderloin.” Plus, Kif (219 DeKalb Avenue, Fort Greene) has expanded their garden to seat 40, and Grub Street shares photos of the casbah-inspired space.
Recently Reviewed: Brooklyn Public House and Vutera
Time Out New York gives Brooklyn Public House (247 DeKalb Avenue, Fort Greene) a thumbs down: “Like a starlet with beauty but no talent, Fort Greene’s latest drinking addition, a refined tavern with all the requisite old-timey trappings, offers lots of flash and little substance.” Ouch. Meanwhile, Restaurant Girl gives Vutera (345 Grand Street, Williamsburg) 3 out of 5 stars, recommending the “tender, red wine-braised lamb shank with baby carrots and polenta.”
After the jump: Locally harvested Brooklyn oysters, Red Hook lobster rolls, another award for Lucali, a Bay Ridge food tour, and a bartending academy for “the young and tragically hip”…
Brooklyn Oyster Experiment
The Brooklyn Paper reports on the untimely death of hundreds of oysters “that were deposited off Sunset Park last year in hopes that they would one-day clean the filthy waters.” However, the researchers are going back to the drawing board, hoping to “prove that oysters can again thrive in New York harbor, where they once played a critical environmental — and culinary — role before over-harvesting and over-pollution reduced their dominance.”
Red Hook Lobster Rolls?
284 Van Brunt Street (Visitation Street), accepts orders at (646) 326-7650 or redhooklobster@gmail.com
We’ve already told you about the new lobster distributor, Red Hook Lobster Pound, but the New York Times shares another tidbit about the place: The owners have applied for permits to serve not only steamed lobsters, but also lobster rolls. We wonder how they’ll compare price-wise to Fairway’s cheapskate lobster roll.
Quick Bites
GQ includes Lucali in their list of “the 25 best pizzas you’ll ever eat.”… The New York Times reports on Myra Alperson’s NoshWalk through Bay Ridge… Grub Street pokes fun at the Brooklyn Bartending academy, which (according to their press release) is “the only authentic one catering specifically to the young and tragically hip on the Brooklyn scene.”
The only time I ever snapped about “noise pollution” was when the spanish pentacostal church across the street from me in Williamsburg set up a pa system and started holding services outside… until 11PM on weekdays. Ice cream jingles are fun. Angry people screaming in Spanish less so. It might have been even worse if I spoke Spanish, I guess.
On the other hand, they also used to sing and that was great.
The complaints about ice cream trucks (Carroll Park is apparently also plagued by this menace), are absurd. Ice cream trucks are a part of summer. It’s a good thing all of these people never lived here when car alarms would go off every fifteen minutes.
If the noise is indeed bad, then of course these people deserve relief. I think what many people are reacting to is the tone of entitlement and arrogance in the flyers and that the person who has launched this effort doesn’t seem to have bothered to see if there any any neighborhood quality of life groups he could have plugged into. Maybe attending a Community Board meeting or one of NAG’s organizing meetings would have resulted in a better outcome and a less confrontational process.
think Jon can do an ID verification via looking up the machine # of the computer / laptop logging into the blog. That would settle it all.
switching ID’s secretly on a blog is cowardly.
11217=swine_flu=screwball
> done now with you.
how funny..that is one of 11217’s most favorite sayings
and yes, rob strikes me as not very smart. hates people who ride bikes? ok. done now with you.
seems some of you just like to say odd things to get attention.
– Posted by: swine_flu at May 20, 2009 4:28 PM
Should we post some of the odd things you’ve said as ‘swine flu’ to get attention.
i don’t love park slope. carroll gardens is my home. not sure why the comments about 11217. don’t get it
> i’ve lived in carroll gardens for 48 years.
LMFAOROTF!!!!!!!!!! and you only post park slope comps and praise, hate on rob and the open thread posters since you mysteriously showed up..right when 11217 left. please get a grip 11217..people would respect you more for just admiting it.
i don’t understand the rude comments here from some of you. nevermind, i don’t really care. seems some of you just like to say odd things to get attention.