Wednesday Food & Drink Round-Up
Photo by EmpressM Lobster Rolls on the Cheap Chow’s Outer Borough Digest is discussing the Brooklyn’s best lobster rolls, from the splurge-worthy $33 roll at Brooklyn Fish Camp to the best budget rolls. The quarter-pounder roll for $14.95 at Jordan’s Lobster Dock gets a nod, as does the Fairway roll (pictured above) which costs a…
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Lobster Rolls on the Cheap
Chow’s Outer Borough Digest is discussing the Brooklyn’s best lobster rolls, from the splurge-worthy $33 roll at Brooklyn Fish Camp to the best budget rolls. The quarter-pounder roll for $14.95 at Jordan’s Lobster Dock gets a nod, as does the Fairway roll (pictured above) which costs a mere $8.99. It sounds a bit too good to be true, but Serious Eats gets behind Fairway’s lobster roll, too: “if you are a lobster-loving-cheapo (like me) you are going to love this one.”
Big Scandals in Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo
McBrooklyn is following the Busy Chef saga. Here’s the short version — manager Dan Kaufman was arrested for identity theft and credit card forgery after he allegedly stole $25,000 from customers. McBrooklyn says that both Busy Chef locations, the Blue Pig ice cream shop, and Oven restaurant are all closed for business… Meanwhile, Grimaldi’s was shut down by the state for 5 hours last week due to unpaid taxes. The Brooklyn Paper reports that “the pizzeria owed as much as $165,000.”
Quick Bites
Time Out New York says that Williamsburger is now open at 342 Wythe Avenue… Eater reports that Kate’s Brooklyn Joint on Berry and South 2nd in Williamsburg has closed and will be replaced a Mexican place called La Superior. It’ll be “cheap and open late” and is set to open August 4… Eater also says that Brooklyn BarBQ at 6th and 20th is closed and will be reopening next month as Safe Haven Bar and Grill…A Brooklyn Life recommends Fat Cat Wines… BergenCarroll complains that the smoothies at Nectar aren’t made with 100% real fruit… And The Brooklyn Paper laments the closing of Tea Lounge on 7th Avenue in Park Slope.
After the jump: Condo tours under the influence of strawberry daiquiris and a guide to Brooklyn’s Chinatown…
Forté’s Rooftop Tiki Bar
Every Wednesday this summer from 6pm to 8pm, the new rooftop tiki bar (pictured above) atop the Forté condominiums at 230 Ashland Place will host “open houses featuring tropical cocktails, classic summer films and tours of four model homes.”
Exploring Brooklyn’s Chinatown
With the help of tour guide Tom Mylan, “whole animal butcher for the Marlow and Sons empire and Meat Sensei at The Brooklyn Kitchen,” Brooklyn Based leads you to all the best eats in Brooklyn’s Chinatown. One of the highlights is Lan Zhou, where the “crispy, bone-in duck was so good it made me want to slap not only my mama but your mama.”
Uncle Louie Won’t Break Your 20
One Eater tipster spotted a sign in the window of Uncle Louie’s ice cream shop on Smith Street that reads, “NOT Taking $20 bills for orders under $9 At All.” The folks at Eater think that’s out of line: “If you only have $20s, a common predicament after a trip to the ATM, you should be able to be able to buy an ice cream cone, a pack of gum, or anything you want under this arbitrary $9 cutoff.”
Who….just what is there about a roof top tiki bar that has anything to do with gentrification???!!!
Have you ever had lobster? It ain’t like crawdads you know.
I stand by my opinion….
The sandwich looks nasty…it doesn’t matter where I grew up.
My observations about gentrification ads are true!
The Fish Camp’s lobster roll is one of the best things in the world. And the fact that it comes with a mountain of their shoestring fries makes $33 (almost) reasonable. I always thought “rolls” were a waste of lobster — but this puts it in a whole different sphere.
The Who…where to begin??
I guess growing up where you did there never was any lobster. And those two “white women” are standing by themselves. Haven’t you ever been to a bar where both black and white people frequent. They do exist.
Or are you just bitter that you’ve never been with any woman, or a black man for that matter?
That’s a white guy standing behind the bar The Who.
Who- that is so funny. I didn’t even notice the “races”. I don’t think that it is subliminal anything. I think that it is that your slip is showing.
You know women don’t really wear slips too much these days.
1st: Ugggggh!
That has to be the nastiest looking sandwich…I don’t have a fondness for all of these restaurants springing up all over the place..The rodents in the basements of these establishments must be having a real picnic.
re: Forte’s Tiki Bar…..
I don’t get many of the ads with white women….. and black
men standing in the forefront or the shadow. I notice it in a lot of the “gentrification” ads. I don’t see many black women with black men or white men in these ads. Is this a subliminal marketing technique?
BOD…at prices now of $15-30 the chunks have gotten a lot bigger on the Cape. Call it gentrification. That said, even McDonalds sells lobster rolls around paarts of MA and RI.
Dave- I wish. If they exist, I do not know where to get them. Yum, yum. I’m going to order these today!
http://www.wholey.com/virginiaspots.html