Recommendations for dinner in PS

my favorites are Mura, Bar toto, beast, rice thai, beet, la villa, and melt. All got really decent prices and great food.

sweet tea wrote: the bar specials at long tan are a good deal, too.

I didn't think the food was so great at Long Tan.

How about Tempo? They have a prix fixe (not sure which nights) that includes my favorite dish there, buccatini with pistachio pesto.

Carnivore wrote: [quote=sweet tea]the bar specials at long tan are a good deal, too.

I didn't think the food was so great at Long Tan.

How about Tempo? They have a prix fixe (not sure which nights) that includes my favorite dish there, buccatini with pistachio pesto.

Long Tan is great for what it is -- easy going, pleasant room, cheap bar dinner specials and
a really really delicious Asian greens side. If you like greens.
Plus it's good for vegetarians and carnivores, like green "jungle curry" for vegetarians who like heat. Plenty of their food is mediocre, but no worse than Song or other local joints, and a few of their things are really good.
Tempo is a little stuffy and a little more expensive. Last I checked they were doing the prix fixe every night.

I don't think any of the 5th Ave restaurants are too bad these days. Only a few of them are super delicious, but those tend to be more expensive.

For reliable cheap wings burgers fries chili etc, there's always Bonnie's

my favorites in the hood are:

song (thai)
oshima (sushi)
chiles and chocolate (oaxacan)
la taqueria (mexican)
franny's (thin crust pizza)

12st Bar & Grill ( American)
Johnny Macks ( best burgers) across from 12 st Bar & Grill
Anthonys ( excellent pizza and baked clams) 7ave bet. 14&15 st.
Miracle Grill ( so, west/mexican) 7ave bet 3&4 st.
Black Pearl ( pizza, italian,seafood) Union bet 6&7 ave
Rice Thai Kitchen 7ave bet 8 &9 st.
Sotto Voce 7 ave 4st.
Watana Siam (thai) 7 ave bet. 13 & 14 st.


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Carnivore wrote: [quote=sweet tea]the bar specials at long tan are a good deal, too.

I didn't think the food was so great at Long Tan.

Agreed. So many people rave about Long Tan, but when I went, I was disappointed. The menu struck me as limited (meat heavy), slightly greasy, and trying too hard to impress with unexpected things I don't care to eat.

Long Tan does a lot of deep frying, which I personally don't like, as there's nothing I fear more than biting into "fresh" fried food that's ice cold in the middle and has been sitting in a freezer for a year.

sweet tea wrote: we had a grand meal at java (indonesian) for a good price in a pleasant atmosphere the other night.

the bar specials at long tan are a good deal, too.

Their menus seem similar to me because they both have a lot of deep-fried items and meat. But if you like that type of thing, you found your restaurants. Lon Tang has a fancier interior.

raw wrote: [quote=sweet tea]we had a grand meal at java (indonesian) for a good price in a pleasant atmosphere the other night.

the bar specials at long tan are a good deal, too.

Their menus seem similar to me because they both have a lot of deep-fried items and meat. But if you like that type of thing, you found your restaurants. Lon Tang has a fancier interior.

a lot of meat both places, definitely, but i don't usually get anything deep fried at long tan (except the onion strings if i get the steak), and we got the rijstaafel at java, which had one fried item (out of something like 12). i'm not saying you have to like either place--neither is my favorite spot in brooklyn--but it's hardly chick-fil-a.