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JFC it’s crowded in here. Hope you have a good sightline, @Wilfrid! I’m on the ramp-y thing in front of the bar. If I don’t see you again, nice to meet you!
- Yesterday
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I’m tempted by the pizza but don’t really want to be up that late.
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I did consider going to Francie after Hinds, but that’s a way to get home at midnight. It will keep. (It has launched an interesting loyalty program but I just don’t eat there enough for it to make sense.)
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I know California has a lot of coastline; I mean, I lived in Santa Barbara, have spent time in San Diego, Santa Cruz, Marin, etc. but I just think the Sonoma coast is so beautiful. And driving around and through rural Sonoma county, you could easily be in another land. This is the Russian River meeting the Pacific Ocean. At Jenner, CA. At the mouth of the river, harbor seals haul out and have their pups. Like, hundreds of them. At what is called Goat Rock Beach.
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The wine people I’ve been talking to in Healdsburg are all jealous of our closeness to Chambers. The wine lists in Sonoma tend to lean Sonoma-ish, but our friends who own two places have managed to stretch that out.
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Almost as reasonable as the $10 corkage at Hawksmoor on Mondays.
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Makes a $29 hamburger and fries seem a relative bargain. With meat!
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Nice. This place is also good, too. https://www.theinfatuation.com/new-york/reviews/hetman-polish-deli-and-foods Also, Andy's Deli on Forest Ave makes some really good poststicker type dumplings that you can order ahead and pick up cooked or buy frozen. Worth checking out for sure. I keep the dumplings in the freezer for a quick fix.
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Oh yeah.
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Seneca Garden, and no, I have to make it over to Stanleys.
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Which Deli? And have you tried Stanley's Pierogi yet?
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Isn't that place a little gem of a shop?
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Hamenstaschen baking has commenced. The boy has a hockey tournament this weekend so I'm bringing about 300 to feed the team, parents, coaches, etc. I'm making three base doughs - my mom's standard, gingerbread, and chocolate. Fillings will be prune and apricot lekvar, halvah, nougat, speculoos. Simon Fischer no longer makes apricot lekvar so in a first, I will make it from scratch. Usually the boy only helps with fabrication. In a first, he made the gingerbread dough under my direction. Photos will follow.
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Looks like the Clinton Hill location of Mekelburg's is closing on March 31. Tough news for the neighborhood.
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The food tastes very good, but the prices are absolutely nuts nowadays. They charge $15+ for a single serving of blanched/steamed vegetables, and brag about it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CtkJCIsRmu2/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/CrnI8l7OPqi/?hl=en Reddit feels the same way:
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Heh. Reminds me of our time in Paris, when we bought a nice ripe cheese specifically to have for breakfast on the day we left....3 days after purchase. It was glorious, BTW--we devoured it with Poilane bread right outside of the bakery.
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N used packaged puff pastry to make a freeform tart with chard (from our garden), feta, and lightly baked eggs.
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That's fair.Everybody's gotta draw a line somewhere. I get very exercised over $4 oysters.
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No doubt. It is not in a location where I find myself often, plus I can't imagine paying $40 for a veggie burger and side.
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The hype is earned, in my opinion. Everything I've had there has been good to excellent. The staff is both friendly and efficient.
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I always figured that someday I would maybe go here to find out what the hype is about, but hearing those prices it seems exceptionally unlikely.
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The pizza is very good