any thoughts on bushwick?

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

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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.

Does anyone see any evidence that the endless march toward total gentrification in Bushwick is slowing down a little? I hadn't really hung out in bushwick for like 3-4 years and was around the morgan and jefferson stops this weekend and felt like things hadn't changed as much as I expected they would have. But OTOH maybe I'm just expecting things to happen faster than they really ever do.

the one thing i picked up on this spring/summer is a noticeable uptick in europeans in the area. i think "bushwick is cool" finally traveled across the atlantic sometime early this year.

one of the best things i saw this summer was a group of pale euros standing on the manhattan bound platform at myrtle bway when a queens bound J train pulled up on the manhattan bound track, as often happens on weekday afternoons. the group of euros looked at the train, looked back down towards manhattan, looked at the train again, stepped halfway in the train, craned their neck down towards manhattan again, then decided to get off.

Actually we did notice a lot of people walking around snapping pictures, taking selfies in front of wall pieces, etc. That was different. Also one of the galleries we stopped in had this older, wealthy looking couple talking to an employee in a private room, like they were actual collectors discussing buying something. I guess I was just expecting to see more new condo buildings or something? But when I think about Williamsburg it took a pretty long time to reach a fever pitch of new construction, plus there are probably zoning issues.

i feel like at certain points on weekends, the area around the morgan stop (especially the immediate block off the stop by robertas & momo) can feel almost as crowded as getting off the bedford stop. nothing really is quite that bad but i've had a few days this year where i got off the stop and was just like, what the fuck is going on here

anyway i'm not sure i have a great feel for whether the gentrifying has slowed down. 2 new buildings have gone up on my block in the last year (one of which has a 1 bedroom w/ private patio that goes for 2,700), an apt building two plots down should be up w/in a few months and a new building just got unwrapped on top of my fav bodega. also a few weeks ago i noticed that a tapas bar is opening across the street from me.

it does sometimes feel like we're in the final sprint of bushwick gentrification but there's still soooo many old buildings/houses that are gonna get razed in the coming years

I guess i hadn't spent much time by the Wyckoff stop ever because I felt very old and confused when we headed over there after picking up my wife at an art opening because yelp told me about Lucy's Vietnamese, which I really enjoyed and we saw Boobie Trap and Pizza Party for the first time.

Definitely one thing that prompted the thinking was feeling a little bit
old there, like it doesn't seem to have turned over much toward the stroller crowd. Maybe just never will.

the kids who've moved there haven't had their own kids yet, and the people who have the kids won't move their until they're ok with the schools probably? I don't know anything about that stuff, just speculating.

I was surprised at the extent that wyckoff has changed. my gf and I used to eat at cocoyac, which is apparently now sort of a known destination? I think the morgan stop is probably kind of saturated until new buildings go in, but lots of change is happening further to the east.

I like that the first post in this thread gives a basic description of what bushwick is, which trains go there, where it's located etc. "it's a neighborhood in north brooklyn"

Morgan is a headache

I'm working by Jefferson stop, hearing a lot of French and German. I am a foreigner also

the coffee shop charge £3 for a bagel and 2.75 for a medium coffee, double the price of the health store next door

One thing that occurred to me walking around (mostly in the Jefferson and Morgan stop areas) was that it still retains a very industrial feel, and also does not have much green space afaict. Those are hard things to change and may mean it's just not destined to become park-slopey, at least not for a very long time. Williamsburg and Greenpoint seem to have more park space compared to their area,