any thoughts on bushwick?

bushwick update: roberta's is kinda dumb. had good tacos in a non tour setting. fantastic puerto rican rotisserie chicken @ la isla cuchifritos. no good pizza yet, suggestions welcome. real pizza not stupid yupster roberta's pizza please.

every bar i have been to has opened within the past year and is pervaded by a sense of intentional, louche, studied insouciance that feels at least two degrees removed from a real bar. suggestions also welcome here.

Food Bazaar is one of the best supermarkets I've ever been in

yes awesome. the one by the myrtle-wyckoff train? i have been shopping at this bodega-turned-organic-mart that i find disorienting and suspect. all this big city cultural collision stuff is new to me as i have spent 15 years in the segregated dichotomous culture of new orleans so i don't know what is good vs what is just straight up thermonuclear gentrification.

http://gawker.com/5973953/does-the-fact-that-no-one-is-talking-about-the-naked-waitress-at-robertas-mean-that-bushwick-is-over

I've never had a bad meal at Robertas. I only go saturdays and sundays right when they open. The food is very good. It is not dumb. Maybe if you wait 3 hours for pizza you think it's dumb?

we didn't wait at all, we eat early bc old ppl. the food was perfectly good but the vibe felt pretty contrived. why serve me beer in a jar? maybe i am a slave to outmoded notions of glassware normativity.

adam you shld prob read this

http://www.theonion.com/articles/were-going-to-enjoy-this-cocainefueled-mason-jar-r,36779/

I've spent relatively little time in Bushwick except when j0n w1ll1ams invites me somewhere, but there is a thriving drag scene and an upcoming weekend fest:

http://www.bushwig.com/

Anybody know anybody who's taught at 3rd Ward?

― dan selzer, Sunday, October 14, 2012 3:05 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Dan, my boyfriend used to! Did you guys get to talk about that at my birthday party? He never uses email and can barely find the cursor when he needs it, but I can send you his address.

Food Bazaar is one of the best supermarkets I've ever been in

― 龜, Thursday, August 28, 2014 1:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

SO MANY TIMES THIS.

why serve me beer in a jar?

― adam, Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:07 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Haha this is Brooklyn in a mason jar

haha we had been planning this move for a long time so i read the internet and shit so i thought i had a handle on the situation but then i found myself sitting at a picnic table in a 90 degree warehouse drinking a $9 beer out of a jar, when i began to grasp the severity of the situation. but is making fun of the jars the new drinking jar?

mason jar or no, I've had some really tasty things at Robertas. Pork-jowel grits and whatnot.

I did not discuss 3rd Ward at your birthday party, and finding out about teaching at 3rd Ward is no longer useful to anybody!

wow food bazaar. good call d. also i stopped for excellent tacos both on the way and on the way back so i am a-ok w bushwick at the moment

Had lunch at Roberta's yesterday. Fantastic.

I live near you Adam. Also we live near j0rdan sarge

To answer your question this neighborhood is pretty ridiculous, I find mr kiwis has dece produce

We had really good sushi at Momo a couple weeks ago, but the waitstaff both male and female seemed to be wearing very skimpy terry clothing and no underwear and it felt just slightly weird being served food by them. Other than that, the only thing I have to say is that the Morgan Ave area somehow manages to look just as grimey as it did 5 years ago while being 3x as expensive.

i went to a bar the other night and a man in suspenders served me a small bowl of free macaroni. on the other hand i went to bunna cafe, the vegan ethiopian place, and it was fucking delicious. verdict: five robertas out of five.

momo sushi shack? more like momo sushi sucks. 1 1/2 robertas out of 5.

otoh spicy goat cemita from taqueria cocoyoc on wyckoff is a solid 4 3/4 robertas out of 5.

gotta try bunna cafe

had a visitor in town so ate out too much, too fancy this weekend:

dear bushwick is standard brooklyn farm to table bullshit, 2 robertas out of 5. waiter wearing jorts.

cafe ghia: fuck brunch. 2 robertas/5.

northeast kingdom only has 4 things on their lunch menu. 2/5

fritzls lunch box has a good burger but twice now i have felt like hot garbage after eating there so 2.5/5

there are three 5 robertas out of 5 places on a 2 block stretch of myrtle around menahan: taqueria izucar, la mesita and taqueria el paisa. (and of course la isla cuchifritos down the street.) the lesson i am learning is that edison bulb shit sucks in this neighborhood but p much everything else is good.

also moving to nyc somehow sapped all my desire and ability to cook for myself at home like a grownup.

Did your kitchen size take a hit

Yeah also it's been summer and it's still super nice out. Wait til it's cold for the cooking urge to kick back in, I like how it's cyclical (for me at least).

I liked dear Bushwick.

Fancy Vietnamese falansai or something place is only 2 Bunkers out of 5.

my kitchen is way smaller (3 bedroom house to 1br apt) and also maybe my wife and i each thought the other was packing certain important kitchen items (baking sheets, for example) so they are still in new orleans. we did however bring the mini bundt cake pan if yall want some mini bundt cakes

i am interested in bunker

Bunkers great but always jammed and a pain to get to. Not for us though as we drive.

Also loved king noodle the first time I went and thought it was gross the second time. And I ordered the same thing.

this thread!

i have had the same consistency issues at king noodle

want to bunna cafe. excellent recommendation.

as far as bars so far i really like pearls but it may qualify as a 'studied insouciance' bar. i went there after spending a day at the beach earlier this summer, and the vibe was very complementary. if you're looking for a real bar it's not that, it's pretty busy and full of young attractives, but i like it

Moving here next weeeeek, thinking of changing me dn to Treeshwick

*my

brb hiding my daughters

kind of a weird joke

it's that bushwick humor, you'll get it shortly

http://image1.masterfile.com/em_w/05/64/64/846-05646404em.jpg

congrats & good luck treesh

where in bushwick

also seamless delivery has elevated robertas to a solid 3.5 robertas out of 5

Moving to a house with a backyard (!) a block from the DeKalb stop. Definitely hoping to order Robertas delivery on the reg.

roberta's is so 2009

I really like their bread and butter

treesh, i pass thru DeKalb on my commute every day now, let's get a drink

That sounds great. I'll let you know when I'm moved in

ok, so i was walking up and down my street in socks just now talking on the phone and a rat ran across my feet

hey dekalb is my stop too

bushwick rats fear nothing

in socks?

Yeah, pretty foolish. I just stepped out because i wasn't getting cell reception.