Italian Restaurant Coming to Cocette Space

Bergenites wrote: There is one place in PS that does salads like you describe - Luscious on 5th between Bergen & St Marks. I haven't had one, but I've had their other food and it is very tasty.

Thanks, Bergenites. I'll keep an eye out for it, but am in S. Slope/WT, so not very convenient.

I am saddened by the lack of matzoh ball soup in the hood, so I vote Jewish deli, followed by Indian, Vietnamese and a mermaid inn kind of place (like B'klyn fish camp, w/out the insulting prices and totally overrated food.)

I would welcome a nice wine bar! I love beer table, but don't like beer...

J0518 wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]there is a real, honest-to-goodness spanish place on 14th/6th, right across from the community garden.

and what the nabe needs, and surprisingly doesn't have, is a deli. with good pickles and pastrami sandwiches and matzoh ball soup.

*original post deleted, and my apologies*

my thoughts on a jewish deli-type place is that so much of that is about history to me. having a pastrami sandwich somewhere other than a Katz would just seem wrong.

I love to have my 3 times a year pastrami at Katz's too but there are many places in Brooklyn that serve up great pastrami and corned beef.. especially in brooklyn.. On Kings Highway and Borough park and other hoods where the indigenous (did I spell that right?) population lives.

belzjm wrote: there is total wine bar on 5th and ?? bergen maybe...

it's fantastic.

everytime i walk by luscious, it's closed. maybe i keep odd hours. same goes with that bakery right near there. blue sky, is it?

i've always thought Luscious Foods kept pretty regular hours, unless they've greatly reduced them.

Blue Sky sells those muffins until they're done and, yeah, their hours are limited. I'm sure they do a ton of business, and also sell to some other neighborhood places. I know Heights Coffee on Flatbush carries their muffins.

raw wrote: [quote=J0518][quote=brooklynpotter]there is a real, honest-to-goodness spanish place on 14th/6th, right across from the community garden.

and what the nabe needs, and surprisingly doesn't have, is a deli. with good pickles and pastrami sandwiches and matzoh ball soup.

*original post deleted, and my apologies*

my thoughts on a jewish deli-type place is that so much of that is about history to me. having a pastrami sandwich somewhere other than a Katz would just seem wrong.

Having a pastrami sandwich at the second Second Avenue Deli on 33rd Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenues seems more wrong.

http://www.2ndavedeli.com/

I can't agree. A great pastrami sandwich has nothing to do with location! the best I ever had.. and I am an old native NY'er was in Florida..In Tamarack... an elderly cousin took me there and said that this would out-do katz's and the 2nd Ave Deli (and she had lived in NY most of her life.). She was correct!!

I would go uptown for the best of the best!

I have actually been in Wolie's in Florida.. very good.

Wondering what it is you don't like about Pastrami in katz's.

As they say.. "what's not to like?"
(add the yiddish accent)

brooklynpotter wrote: the bread isn't great, the slices are too thick and not buttery. it's not made with love.

yep... generic rye bread... I never eat more than half the bread anyway..

and you are right about the not made with love... you would really have to "love" pastrami to enjoy cutting it up for people all day in that place.

I'd love a good salad place, a truly good Spanish tapas place (gambas ajillo, pan tumaco, jamon serrano, patatas bravas....making myself hungry), and on this side of town (WT) a good panini place (a las Press 195)

I give the guy slicing the pastrami a buck at Katz's. That and being nice to the 80 year old ladies that serve you makes all the difference in the world!

Jamzer wrote: I give the guy slicing the pastrami a buck at Katz's. That and being nice to the 80 year old ladies that serve you makes all the difference in the world!

Tip... you put that dollar in the jar so the guy sees it as soon as you request your order.

naugastyle wrote: Wow. I'm fairly certain it was a reply to the person who posted "we need a Spanish (from Spain) restaurant" several posts above yours. Still a bit early in the morning for ya?

Actually, this is not a redundant statement in the context of Brooklyn. A lot of old-style Dominican or Puerto Rican restaurants will refer to their food as "Spanish" even if the connection to Spain is circuitous. My daughter has also mentioned to me that Dominican kids in her school refer to themselves as Spanish. So Spanish (from Spain) is a good way of indicating a European Spanish restaurant as opposed to a New World variation.