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[Lex]

You left out Blanca.

[Wilfrid]

I was actually being serious. Best Mouthfuls isn't even about destination restaurants. I could start the thread, but does anyone want to have input on the neighborhoods it should cover (it shouldn't be just Bushwick).

[Lex]

Abby consolidated a number of neighborhoods that didn't have critical mass into a single thread that covered Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, and Crown Heights. I think Bushwick would comfortably fit there. Sneak could amend the title.

Now all we need are suggestions and as you said, Roberta's and Blanca can't be on the list because they're destinations.

[Wilfrid]

Now all we need are suggestions and as you said, Roberta's and Blanca can't be on the list because they're destinations.

Roberta's is still a pizza joint with a delivery service.

[Lex]

Steve R. cries every time you say that.

[Sneakeater]

I was actually responsible for expanding Abby's initial thread to include all those neighborhoods, which seem culturally related to me.

I'd put Bushwich in a thread with Williamsburg and Greenpoint. To me, that's what it seems culturally related to.

(I'll note that although we have plenty of threads about different places in Williamsburg, we don't have a "Best Mouthfuls" thread for non-destinations there.)

[Lex]

(I'll note that although we have plenty of threads about different places in Williamsburg, we don't have a "Best Mouthfuls" thread for non-destinations there.)

Isn't this a standard non-destinations Best Of thread?

[Sneakeater]

Oh, I missed it because it didn't have "Mouthfuls" in the title.

I'll expand that one.

[Sneakeater]

(Actually, most of what we call Bushwick -- including, for example, Roberta's -- is in Williamsburg.)

[Wilfrid]

That's why I couldn't find it too.

Wikipeedia distinguishes it thus:

Bushwick is bound by Williamsburg to the west, East New York to the east, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville to the south, and Ridgewood, Queens to the north.[4] It is served by Postal Service zip codes 11207, 11221 and 11237.[5] Bushwick was once an independent town and has undergone various territorial changes throughout its history.

[Orik]

(Actually, most of what we call Bushwick -- including, for example, Roberta's -- is in Williamsburg.)

That was a claim popular with real-estate agents and meek locals about 5 years ago. "Come visit us, we're in 'East Williamsburg'". Now everyone genuinely in East Williamsburg says they're in Bushwick.

[Nathan]

(Actually, most of what we call Bushwick -- including, for example, Roberta's -- is in Williamsburg.)

That was a claim popular with real-estate agents and meek locals about 5 years ago. "Come visit us, we're in 'East Williamsburg'". Now everyone genuinely in East Williamsburg says they're in Bushwick.

I knew this British dude 6 years ago that bought several houses in Bushwick for peanuts and insisted it would be the next big thing and derided the East Williamsburg label. I don't know if the real estate has appreciated much yet but I guess he was on to something...

[AaronS]

I live on the G now and there are tons of european and other tourists getting off at the Flushing and Myrtle Willoughby stops on the weekends. Flushing is especially interesting because I'd say it's easily the sketchiest G stop and it's the only one that doesn't have gentrifiers using it to go to work during the week.

[Adrian]

Brooklyn's doing well in the gentrification Olympics.

[Orik]

I noticed there's a Ramen place now (Shinobi Ramen). I have no idea if it's any good.