LAST SUPPER IN PARK SLOPE

It doesn't bring me the same pleasure answering (I use that term loosely) a "newbie" as it might a long time sloper. Just can't seem to muscle the bite on an unsuspecting reader - it'd be rude, but let me do what I can here.

I'd think that in a year you could try every worth place in this hood - thrice.

My favorite experience goes something like this: Blue Ribbon, a flood of drinks, a short skirt, and just enough time in one those private bathrooms.

Recreate away - take pics, I wish I had.

Oh yeah, Blue Ribbon: Surf and turf or the sushi side and just eat EVERYTHING!!!

Bogota Latin Bistro:
arroz con pollo

Ooohhh, I thought you wanted to re-create the Last Supper in the park, cause I was gonna ask if I could play the part of Jesus.

Some chips and avacado dip with lots of delishious blueberry lemonades at Miracle Grill.

Subject: Hands Down

Al Di La, u cant go wrong, its amazing

In addition to the restaurants already mentioned, you will find fine food at Rosewater, Stone Park, Applewood and Moim. It's hard to go wrong at any of these places.

And just on the other side of Flatbush Avenue, in Prospect Heights, there is Franny's, which serves gourmet pizza.

It might be worth another try. I've only been there a handful of times (didn't have the catfish) but I had a great experience each time.

Everyone loves Gramercy Tavern and I know I should try it again but had a horrible experience the only time I ever went - horrible service, mediocre food, and the first and only time I've ever sent wine back - they rolled their eyes but then agreed with me after they tasted it in the kitchen. I dropped over $300 and that was about 10 years ago and for that amount of money I should have had a great night PLUS a foot massage.

I love your burger/green bean story, Veets!

veets wrote: Convivium.. especially on one of those cooler Fall evenings we will have soon. If you eat meat.. order the steak. If not, there are other choices. Eat in the garden or downstairs in the wine cellar.

I concur.

if i had to eat one final meal in the slop it would easily be bogota. hands' down.

Applewood
Palo Santo
Al Di La
Moim

these 4 get my vote

catfish tacos, at bogota... yum!

I have been on an enchilada kick recently. Try Elora's (which is technically Windsor Terrace I think) and, if you don't mind taking the r train to 53 st., try Rico's Tacos - the best Mexican food in the city.

As far as Park Slope goes, Beet has great Thai, as does Song, Lasagna at Pizza Plus, Kiku for sushi, and Jave has really nice Indonesian. I don't get Applewood at all, you pay way too much and leave hungry. The food is not tasty, I have had some bad meals there.

Oh, and Temp is very, very good as well as expensive. Blue Ribbon, best ribs I have ever eaten.

I hate to be the one, but I'm just not feelin' the love for Applewood and Moim. Moim I found boring and pedestrian; I had bibimbap and found the flavors a dull mishmosh. I work right near Koreatown in Manhattan, so maybe my standards are too high, but I've had much better food, much cheaper, in any number of Koreatown joints. Plus, the waiter (who was American) told me, twice, that Koreans typically don't use chopsticks to eat bibimbap. Maybe he's right, but who cares? The Koreans who serve me in my usual Koreatown haunts seem to tolerate this dumb roundeye, so I don't know why the waiter at Moim felt the need to correct me.

I've been to Applewood twice and tried real, real hard to like it, but the portions are SO small. I almost always leave food on my plate, but this place left me famished. And the food -- yeah, yeah, grown lovingly by Zen buddhists and fertilized with gently excreted manure from oft-caressed poultry, whatever -- it's underseasoned and boring. And really overpriced. And the last time I went there, I was with friends and ordered champagne, and they were training some new guy to open it, and he opened it and it glugged all over the floor and they ignored it. I let it pass, but we lost several ounces of bubbly, and lots and lots of respect for Applewood.

There. I said it. Unimpressed by Applewood and Moim.

Just some thoughts about al dila la la la la. I had this superrb meal there afew years ago and the circumstance was just as special as the food.

Summer evening and a friend and I stolled up 5th ave. with no intentions of where to eat but the desire to do so. We pass Al di la la la la and low and behold there is a table for 2 that seems available.

We go in. The table is ours. . We had sardines... 2 orders because we love them! Killed a bottle of wine. Had one pork dish and one seafood dish (so long ago I can't remember which ones) and the food was terrific!!!

And we hated sitting so close to other diners because our very intimate conversation, about whatever nonesense we were talking about, needed to be whispered so as not to disturb the other people. I hate the seating there!! You are literally on top on each other.. o.k. not on top.... 4 inches between tables. Geez the place is doing great! Right? expand! Spread those tables out a little.

I remember that meal as magic but have not eaten there since. I hate the "line up outside on a sun. evening as the place opens" and hope that you get a table and the over-crowded feeling.

Real dining is more than the food . It is that comfort zone where the situation is just so perfect you have the sense that your dinner is the only one the staff is interested in serving and the chef in preparing. yeah there are other people in there but you feel alone , in that pampered way.

I never have that feeling in
la la la land .


I always feel that way in Convivium and Blue Ribbon.
If I don't have that.. well I might as well eat the last meal in Daisey's diner on 5th ave.