NYC food you would not be able to live without. (Albany: house prices, costs)
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Let me tell you guys! I'm in Virginia now! When I see my ex-pat New Yorker friends, the one topic we always get back to is food. In Virginia, no decent bagels so we order from Zabar's. No Italian pastries so we order from Ferrara's.
Additionally, I ordered aged provolone from Pennsylvania Macaroni. For Easter, I ordered Ferrara's Easter bread. For Christmas, I ordered dried cod from Frank & Sal's.
Oddly enough, we have a Russian/Polish import store. The owner drives to Greenpoint Brooklyn for inventory. The only problem is all the great rye bread is frozen. It ain't the same as fresh.
Sounds awful until I realized how much I'm saving on taxes. And, the weather is so much nicer! Spring begin in late February and goes forever.
I have found a decent pizza place, but no pizza in NJ is anywhere near as good as places I went in Brooklyn. Found good bagels, but bread overall is a disaster. Bread, pizza and bagels are better in Brooklyn than anywhere.
2 specific foods that are great and can't find as good outside of NYC - the soup dumplings from Ollie's Sichuan and roast beef sandwiches from Brennan & Carr.
I have found a decent pizza place, but no pizza in NJ is anywhere near as good as places I went in Brooklyn. Found good bagels, but bread overall is a disaster. Bread, pizza and bagels are better in Brooklyn than anywhere.
2 specific foods that are great and can't find as good outside of NYC - the soup dumplings from Ollie's Sichuan and roast beef sandwiches from Brennan & Carr.
In Virginia we have a pizza maker from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. It's the best pizza!
For bread, bagels and Chinese once you leave Brooklyn/Manhattan, its all downhill. There is one exception for Chinese - Blue Orchid in Westwood, MA.
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Italian food is overrated but if you told Italians, you called pasta/spaghetti, "noodles", they'd get their grandma to curse you out.
The best Italian food I had was in Italy but the 2 best pasta dishes ( caccio e pepe and carbonara ) are very easy to make of you can source quality ingredients. Go to a place like D. Coluccio & Sons
In Dyker and you can make a pasta dish better than any restaurant in NYC for about $30.
FINALLY, finally! Someone else shares my sentiment. I just don't get the hoopla people make about Italian food. I've had Italian food in various restaurants and even in Little Italiy two decades ago when there were still Italians there...and I found nothing spectacular about the food. Nothing.
I used to have an Italian coworker and one day we went to her house (Long Island) for lunch. There was a table full of food for just her and her BF. I tasted the various foods but the only thing that left me with a positive impression was the prosciutto. Even with that, I've only had it about twice since that time (over a 15 year period).
Apparently they never quite came back from the rats in the "outdoor" kitchen scandal, but the reviews online for this place are stellar https://abc7ny.com/rat-prosperity-du...-alley/960477/
I'd probably check it out if they were still open, rats and all.
What infuriated me was that it was basically someone trying to show off on the internet. Any decent person would simply privately have called the health department and it would have been cleaned up. In fact, the reason for the problem in the first place, making dumplings out back in unsanitary conditions, was also caused by people showing off online who kept raving about the place, pulling in more nitwit tourists than the little place could sustain.
Love love Katz and every t8me we go there I ask myself why we don’t come more often.
We agreed long ago that at $50 a sandwich that would be out cutoff point.
It’s such a hassle to drive out there and park though, which is why we go once a year if that.
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