Each Friday, A Guy In New York publishes “This Week in NYC Reviews (TWIR),” with quick links to New York City restaurant reviews and mentions from the previous seven days in blogs, magazines, and newspapers.
To see a list of upcoming food events in the NYC area, see “New York City Wine Tasting, Dinners, Food/Drink Events.” Also see our roundup of Michelin 1, 2 and 3 star restaurants with links to reviews …
For DC restaurant reviews, see This Week in DC Reviews at Hobnob Blog, and Tyler Cowen’s Ethnic Dining Guide ….
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• Slice NY has a a great pic of how to enjoy the World Cup … GO Ecuador! GO Argentina! GO Mexico! GO Brazil! … and reposts something worth reading: “Di Fara: ‘Why the hurry? Life’s too short’” …
• Off The Broiler is looking forward, as are we, to a new Pixar movie coming next summer … Ratatouille … web site … btw – if you go see Cars, stay all the way through the credits at the end …
• NYC nosh says Jordan Lobster Farms is worth the trip … “if you really, really love fresh shellfish, this is exactly where you want to be” … web site, 1 Pettit Place, Island Park, 516-889-3314 [NYT] … and likes the tacos at Tehuitzingo Mexican Deli: “might just be the best on our tiny island” … 695 10th Avenue, between 47th and 48th Streets, 212-397-5956 [MenuPages | NYT | Yelp]
• The Food Section has “discovered the Best New Brunch Dining With a View in New York” … “one of the most spectacular views of the East River and the Statue of Liberty you’ve ever seen” … Fairway in Red Hook … web site, 500 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, 718-694-6868 … directions …
• Veal Cheeks says Veritas “is a restaurant where one can easily spend $200+/person, yet hear more of one’s neighbors’ conversations than that of one’s partner.” … “None of the dishes were transcendent, but both the appetizers and entrees were well-conceived and stalwart.” … web site, 43 East 20th Street, at Broadway, 212-353-3700 [MenuPages | NYT | NY Mag | openlist | Gayot | Savory NY | Yelp | Citysearch]
• Gotham Gal says Chinatown Brasserie “is good not great.” … Disneyland Brasserie … (previous reviews: Steve Cuozzo (TWIR, June 9, 2006), Off the Broiler (TWIR, June 2, 2006)) … web site, 380 Lafayette Street, 212-533-7000 [MenuPages | Savory NY | Citysearch]
• Twenty bucks a day liked the pljeskavica at Djerdan … “Regardless of price, the meat can’t be faulted. The pljeskavica arrived on an aluminum plate bearing twin containers of chopped white onions and ajvar, (a red pepper spread that, if I can find a jar or six to take with me to the Cape, will be the hit condiment of the summer with my family).” … 221 West 38th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 212-921-1183 [MenuPages | NYT | NY Mag]
• Forbes gave 3 Green GOs … Cafe D’Alsace: “Try the petatou (warm potato salad appetizer laced with Munster cheese), the roast chicken, the grilled trout with buttered spinach and a Riesling sauce, and the choucroute garnie” … web site, 1695 2nd Avenue, at 88th Street, 212-996-1706 [Shecky’s | NYT | NY Mag | Yelp | Citysearch] … Shelly’s New York: “Portions are large and delicious” … web site, 41 West 57th Street, 212-245-2422 [MenuPages | NYT | NY Mag | openlist | Gayot] … Woo Lae Oak: “Make it a point to try the tempuralike calamari: yummy” … web site (Flash and music), 148 Mercer Street, between Prince and Houston Streets, 212-925-8200 [MenuPages | NYT | NY Mag | openlist | Gayot | Yelp | Citysearch]
• Gael Greene wonders why she hadn’t heard of Sfoglia … Andrea Strong reviewed it in May (TWIR, May 26, 2006) … web site, 1402 Lexington Avenue, at 92nd Street, 212-831-1402 [MenuPages | NYT]
• Adam Platt gave 0 stars to Mr. Chow Tribeca … “Always, the food is served by bow-tied waiters in an exaggerated, pseudo-swank, Continental style. Always, it’s outrageously expensive, a canny tactic designed to alleviate the hidden fear, among the masses who flock there, that it might not be very good after all.” … “the chicken satay they recommended turned out to be two scraggly portions of chicken breast ($5.50 each) marinated in some indistinct orange substance and obscured in a kind of boiled cream sauce tasting vaguely of peanuts. The harried (mostly Italian) waiters also brought us some rock-hard, midget-size pot stickers, a petite mound of the famous Mr. Chow diced squab (costing roughly $9 per petite spoonful), and a single, shopworn scallion pancake about the size (and texture) of one of my daughter’s breakfast mini-waffles. Our frog’s legs were muffled in an elderly batter crust, and a dish called Drunken Fish ($31 à la carte) consisted of a couple of wet pieces of sole sunk in a curious gelatinous substance which had no color and very little taste and looked perilously like pond slime.” … uh huh: it’s expensive, so it must be good … “Pay your bill, and get out of there as fast as you can.” … or better yet, STEER CLEAR and then you won’t have to pay a bill … web site, 121 Hudson Street, near North Moore Street, 212-965-9500 [Gayot | Citysearch]
• Lauren Collins says the signature noodles at Mr. Chow Tribeca are “as gelatinous as the lo mein at your neighborhood Golden Dragon, and the accompanying meat sauce, oversugared and tomatoey, tastes exactly like Chef Boyardee Beefaroni.” … yum, yum … MMTJ …
• Joshua Bernstein says that although Burgers and Cupcakes (458 9th Avenue, between 35th and 36th Streets, 212-643-1200) and Zip Burger (300 1/2 East 52nd Street, 212-308-0623) “are excellent role players, in this hypercrowded meat market they’re hardly destinations. Instead, these newcomers will ably serve their local, under-burgered neighborhood crowd…until another trend boots cheesesteaks, tacos and burgers to food’s fickle curb.” … no foul, no goal …
• Frank Bruni gave 2 stars to Degustation … warning: “You should not visit Degustation in a group larger than two, because the side-by-side seating would make conversation awkward. You should not go if you’re keen on desserts, because Degustation doesn’t excel at them. You can easily spend $40 or more to assemble enough modestly priced dishes — maybe four, maybe even five — to fill you. And if your reserved seat isn’t ready, there’s nowhere comfortable to wait.” … (previous reviews: Leo Carey (TWIR June 16, 2006), Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite (TWIR, June 9, 2006)) … 239 East 5th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, 212-979-1012 [Augieland | Yelp | Citysearch] … and 1 star to Jewel Bako … “a few pieces of its sushi — pike eel with a dab of pickled plum, chopped jack mackerel with baby ginger, scallions and shiso — are noteworthy.” … 239 East 5th Street, 212-979-1012 [NY Mag | Gayot | Savory NY | Citysearch]
• eat drink one woman went to Mercadito Grove for drinks and appetizers and reports “the bill came out to a whopping $270 for six (only four actually ate dinner) with tax and tip. $270, and I was still hungry and completely sober!” … easy to avoid that place … 100 7th Avenue South, at Grove Street, 212- 647-0830 [MenuPages | NYT | Gayot | Yelp | Citysearch]
• David Rosen gave 1.5 stars to Peking Duck House … “the pancakes were superior to any I have consumed in other Chinese restaurants, but the duck lacked the intense flavor that characterized Mainland¹s and the crispy texture that is a hallmark of Shun Lee West¹s. Altogether, it was a good Peking duck, but certainly not the best I have ever had.” … web site, 28 Mott Street, between Chatham Square and Pell Street, 212-227-1810 [MenuPages | NY Mag | Savory NY | Citysearch]
• Big Apple Dining Guide liked the ice tea at Prune … and says the “simple [poussin] dish was truly terrific.” … 54 East 1st Street, 212-677-6221 [MenuPages | NYT | NY Mag | openlist | Gayot | Yelp | Citysearch]

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