Village Voice's Top 10 PS Restaurants (plus runners up)

Runners up:

Empanada Lady* (Empanadas), 13th Street and Fifth Avenue;
Bussaco** (New American), 833 Union Street, 718-857-8828;
Sheep Station (Australian Pub), 149 Fourth Avenue, 718-857-4337;
La Villa Pizzeria (Pizza, Italian), 261 Fifth Avenue, 718-499-9888;
Bark Hot Dogs (High-end hot dogs) 474 Bergen Street, 718-789-1939;
Rose Water (New American), 787 Union Street, 718-783-3800;
S'Nice*** (Vegetarian) 315 Fifth Avenue, 718-788-2121;
Get Fresh Table and Market (New American, Greenmarket), 370 Fifth Avenue, 718-360-8469;
Watana Siam (Thai) 420 Seventh Avenue, 718-832-1544;
Anthony's (Pizza, Italian), 426A Seventh Avenue, 718-369-8315;
Ghenet (Ethiopian), 348 Douglass Street, 718-230-4475;
Bar Toto (Italian cafe) 475 Sixth Avenue, 718-768-4698;
Bonnie's Grill (American) 278 Fifth Avenue, 718-369-9527;
Fatoosh (Middle Eastern) 437 Fifth Avenue, 718-369-0606;
Total Wine Bar (American, bar snacks) 74 Fifth Avenue, 718-783-5166;
Sidecar (American, eclectic) 560 Fifth Avenue, 718-369-0077;
Kinara (Indian) 473 Fifth Avenue, 718-499-3777;
Nibble Nook (Trinidadian) 349 Fifth Avenue, 718-788-2548;
Blue Ribbon Brasserie (Seafood, American, French), 280 Fifth Avenue, 718-840-0404;
Alchemy (Gastropub) 56 Fifth Avenue, 718-636-4385.

I agree with some of those and strongly disagree with others, LOL

Drunken Revival wrote: Those list are always total bullshit...

what are your top 10?

Drunken Revival wrote: My list would be total bullshit as well.

this I believe

I think the empanada cart is usually on 5th at 10th, 11th, 0r 12th on the west side of the street. I'm around there midday so I don't know how late she stays.

where is bogota? and my fish tacos?

i second that lot 2 should be not only on the list, but near the top of it. also think get fresh should have made the top 10.

bogota should be on one of those lists. also think fondue should have been mentioned.

i'm fine with blue ribbon being on the runner up list. love them though.

oh, and nibble nook is not even open anymore, i don't think. isn't that where prego pizza and home s (vietnamese) are now?

i'd take bonnie's, watana and kinara off either list. but that's just me.

belzjm wrote: does anybody think canaille should be on the list? i only had it once a while ago and it was really really good.

that's another place I have been meaning to get to. What I like about lists like these is that they remind me or get me intrigued enough to try new places.

Nos. 1 thru 4 make sense
Nos. 5 thru 8 make no sense
I'll reserve judgment on Nos. 9 & 10

The most criminal omission is Palo Santo.
Rose Water & Bussaco should be in the Top 10.

I have been to Steinhoff twice and while I liked it, I wouldn't consider it one of the 10 best restaurants in PS, kind of surprised on that one

Steinhof on that list is a major WTF moment. The staff is nice there, and it's great that they have free magazines to read, but it is sheer lunacy to imply, as they are, that the food is better than the food at Rose Water, Bussaco, Palo Santo, Ghenet, Blue Ribbon, Canaille, Brooklyn Fish Camp, Song, or about 15 other places in the neighborhood.

Oh, love Song! Yeah, makes you wonder how they figure out these "top 10" lists. Personal favorites? Surveys? the writer is friends with the people who own these places? What?

^WTF? I only have TWO mentions on DR's top 10? I must be slipping :-)

(and you are needed in the Lounge. Aren't your ears ringing?)

I can see Steinhof making the list by being really good at what it does: it's a really, really good low-key Austrian place. The food ain't Applewood, but their bratwurst is very good bratwurst, maybe some of the best in the city, the atmosphere's great, and the beer is good. So, maybe.

But by that logic, Beer Table should be higher: they have simply the best bottled beer selection I've ever had at a restaurant - not the biggest, just the best, and it's fantastically curated. Their food, btw, isn't standard bar fare at all, but rather a few odd nibbles most nights (cheeses, pickled vegetables, maybe ham, maybe a pudding or two), and then a great prix fixe once a week.

And also by that logic, Stone Park - and maybe I'm inviting a backlash for saying this - shouldn't be close to as high as it is. It's a perfectly good restaurant with a lot of attitude and high prices that seems to wish it were in Manhattan, only if it were nobody would pay any attention to it. Meanwhile, including Chiles and Chocolate while not listing Fonda at all makes me wonder if these guys wrote this list nine months ago but only published it now. Kinara over the new Indian place at 14th St. and 6th ave. is understandable, as the new place, which is really very good, only opened last month.

As for Lot 2, I agree that it's fantastic (if limited menu-wise), but they say in the article that their cutoff is 15th street, so I guess that's out.

Astigmatism,

Regarding Stone Park: to each his own, but Manhattanite Frank Bruni of the Times did pay attention to it and gave it a two star review... the same rating he gave to Al di la. Which doesn't prove anything, but it's not so easy to say which restaurants would thrive in Manhattan versus in Brooklyn. Explain to me why AOC Bistro and Mary's Fish Camp are so successful in the West Village while their Park Slope spinoffs do a rather middling business.