plus tax and tip
it's about time: Brooklyn finally gets its first Restaurant Week. $18.98 gets you a 3-course meal at a litany of fine dining establishments all over the borough. t.s.o.a. can highly recommend the following: Rose Water (Park Slope), Madiba (Ft Greene), A Table (Ft. Greene), Superfine (DUMBO) and Relish (Williamsburg). at the top of our list of places to check out are Alma, Thomas Beisl, Miss Williamsburg (which jumped on the list after seeing their lasagna on Tyler's Ultimate the other day), and Downtown Atlantic.
also, Coney Island officially opened over the weekend. the wife and i will be braving the projected cold weather to ride the Cyclone if anyone else feels up to the trip. a stop at Totonno's could be in the cards as well.
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Alma's pretty good, but sitting on the roof when it's warmer outside makes the food taste better. Sweet Plantain and I went to brunch at Thomas Beisl and the service was horrendous. The food was pretty yum though. I want to try the pizza at LaRosa. I am a sucker for brick or coal oven pies. Oh yeah, I've eaten at Miss Williamsburg too. Can't remembe the food too well, but remember having to wait a long time for a table.
Posted by: sujan | April 7, 2004 01:18 PM
i rode the cyclone in the cold weather this past sunday - i think it had something to do with my wednesday sick day.
Posted by: the real janelle | April 8, 2004 01:37 AM
I tried the pizza at La Rosa a few months ago (but didn't get around to blogging it 'cause the photos didn't turn out). It wasn't mindblowing, but definitely was better than most pizza out there. Even though Citysearch recently recommended, "stick to the simpler pies, some of the more interesting toppings, such as white truffle oil, can easily overwhelm all other flavors," I actually liked the overwhelmingness of the white-truffle-oil (and wild mushroom) pie much more than the plain pie. Blah blah.
You Apes people, from what I've gathered, seem to live in the Prospect Heights/Park Slope area? There's a new place opening tonight (April 13th) on Flatbush. Franny's. It's not quite a coal-fired oven (it burns wood instead), but is a brick oven.
Posted by: Adam | April 13, 2004 05:46 PM
adam, i read about this new place on your site. what are the cross streets?
Posted by: sujan | April 13, 2004 05:57 PM
sujan, we walked by it when we were going to meet you for sushi the other week, so it's somewhere in the Carlton/7th Ave area.
Posted by: jamie | April 13, 2004 06:14 PM
Sujan, It's between Saint Mark's and Prospect places. 295 Flatbush Ave. (http://www.sliceny.com/archives/000265.php)
Posted by: Adam | April 14, 2004 01:02 PM