Supporting Local Restaurants

where are dice, beet and fez?

Subject: wasnt dice called something else?

those two places, the constantly renamed sushi and thai place between PA and 17th? I know 2 people that love the food at Dice. I've ordered from there, not so great.

Sushi yama was sushi Yu, or vice versa. Used to be a fan of the place across from Farrells, but the food went down hill.

Fez seems to be struggling.

Enzos always seems packed - I take out from there, never sat down.

I've hit the hot dog place a few times as well and they do know how to make a "creamer".

All in all, I'd pick Dub Pies @ The Pie shop. I'm a bit of a fanatic.

Saw in another post that Terrace bagels was shut by the DOH (http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48488)

YankeeFan wrote: personally i find it odd that people who moved here recently are concerned about supporting local restaurants that have only been here about 1 year, but not concerned about supporting video stores that were here about 20 years or a deli that was here about 60 years

the age of the video store is over.

not sure which deli you are talking about. I frequent windsor bagels and had the most delicious pancakes ever at their adjacent cafe last weekend.

Pierre's is a poor excuse for a deli. when it hasn't been closed recently, (I know just reopened) it had been staffed by seemingly perpetually stoned kids who took 10 minutes to make a turkey sandwich.

"old school"?

i had in mind the german deli that was next door to farrells for about 60 years. where enzos is now. i use to love that place. it has been gone probably about 5 year now. but if you were living around here while it was around and didn’t support and want to explain why, i’d be curious to hear

personally i still have not joined netflix. but if that, along with illegal downloading and dvd burning is why you say “the video store age is over” then i guess its understandable why you wouldn’t support a place like venus video (as much as i loved that place). but universal video would also do picture developing, they had a great photo copy machine, you could buy blank cds/dvds/videos there, they did t-shirt printing, and all kinds of other stuff besides renting movies

anyway i love the card store and krupas grocery. i am glad to see some people are supporting them. although i don’t see how anyone could ever call krupas expensive. whats expensive there? the magazines and newspapers are the exact same price there as everywhere else. the candy is not expensive. i sometimes buy empty packages for stuff i need to mail and always found them reasonably priced. as a kid i use to buy baseball cards and notebooks for school there, again never had a problem with price. what do you consider expensive?
and hallmark, honestly i don’t think i’ve ever bought a card anywhere but there in my whole life. so i don’t know how other card store prices compare. are you saying other stores are really that much cheaper? either way the people in hallmark are always super nice and i’m happy to give them my support

krupas candy and magazines, etc. are all competitively priced. i guess I'm thinking of the time I was out of printing paper (plain white stuff) and the price they had was literally 3-4x what I would pay at Staples or elsewhere (I know they should not have the same price as Staples, but the difference was HUGE). Also, they carry Nag Champa (a brand of incense) - it's very convenient to buy there, but is marked up higher than it should be

The Hallmark store just doesn't have a great selection of modern cards. You can do better at B&N, Lion in the Sun and a whole host of other places.

That said, I still go to both of those places because of the people who own them.


Now....one GIANT waste of space is that "beauty" supply store near the Hallmark store/Clemens. The stuff in there is pure garbage, the hours seem to be whenever they feel like it and they are not friendly at all. A few years ago I met a guy who was the owner of that building. He let's his mom keep the space as it is her "hobby".

yoda wrote: what are modern cards? is that code for ironic?

Their cards are a bit flowery, old-fashioned. Not so many "modern cards" - like black and white photography with nothing inside, or cards for breakups, losing your job, etc.