I ate at Peaches Hothouse (Tompkins at hancock) on Friday. The staff was very friendly, the service excellent. We split an appetizer of grilled shrimp in a tomato broth with grape tomatos and roasted red pepper strip. It was very good.
My entree was beef cheeks over grits and they were excellent, like a slow cooked short rib and Xing had the fried chicken which was very crispy and tasty, but maybe a tad overcooked. It came with a cold mac and cheese salad but I had hoped for traditional hot mac and cheese.
I’d say that the food there was a bit higher level than Peaches, which I was not expecting. They are hoping to have their liquor license this week sometime. There’s a small bar that seats maybe 4. I’ll be back.
i agree with the article at park slope. as weird as it might sound, i really love living there. of course the problem with living there (for some) is that you cant afford to enjoy what’s actually there hahah. i take issue tho with the writer of the article saying that park slope is full of creative types. it really isn’t. but i find places that are filled with “creative” types to be absurdly pretentious anyway.
having lived in a few ghettos in the past, i feel like living in a safe area is worth the money. for me anyway. obviously everyone has different reasons for living where the live.
I was at the laundromat yesterday at 5:30 on Tompkins between Hancock and Jefferson and the cops were very jumpy. Zillions of them, and for some reason they taped off the corner of Hancock and Tompkins which is not where the shooting happened.
I’m surprised I didn’t hear a lot of cop cars. i was on my roof around 2:00-2:30 when it supposedly happened and was in Saraghina by 3:20 or so. Never knew it had happened.
Here is a bit for all of the parents. Chattanooga, TN was one of the best surprises of the trip. GREAT place to take kids for a weekend if you are looking for an off the beaten path getaway that most people in NYC don’t know about. We stayed in the “Chattanooga Choo Choo” hotel (in a train car that had been converted into a hotel room – kids were over the moon). Then to the Children’s museum, one of the best I have ever been to, and then the Aquarium – hands down the best aquarium I have ever seen (and right on the banks of the Tennesee River, which is nice.
“My entree was beef cheeks over grits”
Where do I start?
I ate at Peaches Hothouse (Tompkins at hancock) on Friday. The staff was very friendly, the service excellent. We split an appetizer of grilled shrimp in a tomato broth with grape tomatos and roasted red pepper strip. It was very good.
My entree was beef cheeks over grits and they were excellent, like a slow cooked short rib and Xing had the fried chicken which was very crispy and tasty, but maybe a tad overcooked. It came with a cold mac and cheese salad but I had hoped for traditional hot mac and cheese.
I’d say that the food there was a bit higher level than Peaches, which I was not expecting. They are hoping to have their liquor license this week sometime. There’s a small bar that seats maybe 4. I’ll be back.
i agree with the article at park slope. as weird as it might sound, i really love living there. of course the problem with living there (for some) is that you cant afford to enjoy what’s actually there hahah. i take issue tho with the writer of the article saying that park slope is full of creative types. it really isn’t. but i find places that are filled with “creative” types to be absurdly pretentious anyway.
having lived in a few ghettos in the past, i feel like living in a safe area is worth the money. for me anyway. obviously everyone has different reasons for living where the live.
*rob*
Thanks Donatella.
I was at the laundromat yesterday at 5:30 on Tompkins between Hancock and Jefferson and the cops were very jumpy. Zillions of them, and for some reason they taped off the corner of Hancock and Tompkins which is not where the shooting happened.
I’m surprised I didn’t hear a lot of cop cars. i was on my roof around 2:00-2:30 when it supposedly happened and was in Saraghina by 3:20 or so. Never knew it had happened.
Here is a bit for all of the parents. Chattanooga, TN was one of the best surprises of the trip. GREAT place to take kids for a weekend if you are looking for an off the beaten path getaway that most people in NYC don’t know about. We stayed in the “Chattanooga Choo Choo” hotel (in a train car that had been converted into a hotel room – kids were over the moon). Then to the Children’s museum, one of the best I have ever been to, and then the Aquarium – hands down the best aquarium I have ever seen (and right on the banks of the Tennesee River, which is nice.
maybe you were meant to be a long-distance trucker.
Sitting back at my desk now. I’ve driven about 7,000 miles in the past three and a half weeks. So far this year I have been to:
– New York
– Connecticut
– Massachusetts
– Vermont
– New Hampshire
– New Jersey
– Pennsylvania
– Ohio
– Indiana
– Illinois
– Wisconsin
– Minnesota
– South Dakota
– Wyoming
– Colorado
– Utah
– Nevada
– California
– Delaware
– Maryland
– Washington D.C.
– Virginia
– North Carolina
– Tennessee
– Georgia
– Alabama
– Mississippi
– Arkansas
– Missouri
– Kansas
– West Virginia
oh and it happened at 2:30 in the afternoon.