Elementi....
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wow. that is quite a ringing endorsement.
i've never been to either restaurant (al di la or elementi) but have obviously heard years worth of raves about al di la. i'm sure i'll go and be disappointed! -
honestly i can't imagine that you'd be dissappointed with al di la. it's fantastic! food, atmosphere...everything is terrific. i think it's one of the best italian places in the entire city...
elementi...haven't tried it. i've heard some pretty negative things about it, and from the look of it, it's not somewhere that i'm tempted to go.
so i found the comparison to al di la quite...how shall we say...interesting... -
well it looks as though a lot of the stuff said on those past threads has been deleted.
that's too bad.
this website is far too censored for my taste. -
belzjm wrote: well it looks as though a lot of the stuff said on those past threads has been deleted.
Unfortunately, there's a very good reason for that and it has nothing to do with Brooklynian. But everything to do with the new owners of Elementi. Somehow I'm not surprised that Louise is pimping for them.
that's too bad.
this website is far too censored for my taste. -
Gotta say, I don't get all the fuss about Al Di La. It's been years since I ate there, so maybe things have changed, but it was too frou-frou for me. If Elementi is anything like that, I'm in no rush to go.
Besides, I don't care to patronize a place whose owners harass anyone who dared to criticize them. I know restaurants live and die on word-of-mouth recs, but that's a bad way to get them. -
I know there are LOTS of people who will dance a little happy dance when Elementi--that cheeseball faux restaurant finally closes its door.....and I guarantee it will close. Crap can only stay open so long with high rents, even on 7th Avenue, the home of mediocre dining. Should we place bets how long that place will last? I say it will hang on through the holidays.
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The name 'Elementi' reminds me of that movie Mannequin, where they had that tacky department store -- "Illustra, come to Illustra!!"
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belzjm wrote:
I agree with that. Crazy how uptight this board is over pretty much nothing most of the time.
this website is far too censored for my taste. -
Innocent X wrote: [quote=belzjm]
I agree with that. Crazy how uptight this board is over pretty much nothing most of the time.
this website is far too censored for my taste.
So, you think putting someone's job in jeopardy is nothing? Forgive me if I don't agree with you. -
caseopele wrote: [quote=Innocent X][quote=belzjm]
I agree with that. Crazy how uptight this board is over pretty much nothing most of the time.
this website is far too censored for my taste.
So, you think putting someone's job in jeopardy is nothing? Forgive me if I don't agree with you.
There still seems to be a lot of confusion about the "censored" posts about Elementi. To state it clearly and plainly: caseopele *requested* that her comments about Elementi be redacted.
As stated in the Brooklyn Papers article, one of the owners of Elementi went to talk with caseopele's employer about caseopele's posts, and subsequently, caseopele asked the moderators to edit her posts for her. -
Just my 2 cents.. I think it is a good thing the moderators will remove a posting at the request of the original poster. There are many reasons for this request being made from time to time but in regard to this thread casepole's reasons for requestion removal were totally justified and necessary.
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Haha.
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i understand and that's totally fine if someone wanted their comments deleted...i wasn't only talking about this circumstance but i digress...
my point is...anyone that's now reading about elementi has no idea what went down and now it's getting a rave review from time out new york and any negative comments made about the place have disappeared.
i didn't follow the original elementi thread enough to have memorized it, but this now seems to have defeated the purpose of the intial gripe against elementi.
if anyone sees that article and follows the link to elementi, they have no idea what went on...
doesn't really matter, i suppose. people will have to go try the place for themselves. -
Evil's ill-gotten victory is short-lived...
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daver wrote: Evil's ill-gotten victory is short-lived...
amen! -
hmmm. maybe someone can do a recap without implicating anyone ... ?
if that's possible.
You should definitely go to the Comments page of Only the Blog on TONY/Elementi... where Gersh K. says he had the "seminal article" on Elementi first in Brooklyn Paper.
he's so over the top! -
i just re-read the original thread, and either you'll find enough reasons to dislike elementi from what remains in the thread, or you wouldn't have cared about what has been deleted, anyway.
in other words, it's not what was deleted, it's why it was deleted, and you can figure that out pretty easily. -
daver wrote: Evil's ill-gotten victory is short-lived...
In the context of the history of "evil" this seems a bit more like a pimple than a boil - Having read the entire history of Brooklynian/Elementi ad naseum, I can think of no more salient example of much ado about nothing. I stated before and I state again that I (white boy) and my wife(west indian beauty) have never been more rudely treated than we were the one time we happened to venture into Snooky's - no where, no time, have we felt more unwelcome. I left thinking that by some weird fate of time travel we had stumbled into a redneck bar in Mississippi in the 1960's.
I'm personally thrilled to read TONY's review of Elementi and can't wait to dine there. -
dailyheights wrote:
Be careful what you say, if you're not careful the Elementatti will come a-knocking for you too.
As stated in the Brooklyn Papers article, one of the owners of Elementi went to talk with caseopele's employer about caseopele's posts, and subsequently, caseopele asked the moderators to edit her posts for her. -
This place has stirred quite a lot of emotions. I'm kinda interested in this place now. Anyone know a good website that posts menus from the neighborhood, I've been using menutopia but its not very up to date. I'm too lazy to walk all the way over there and I usually eat on 5th ave.
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chance wrote: This place has stirred quite a lot of emotions. I'm kinda interested in this place now. Anyone know a good website that posts menus from the neighborhood, I've been using menutopia but its not very up to date. I'm too lazy to walk all the way over there and I usually eat on 5th ave.
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I've eaten at Elementi.
It was very good.
I think the owner was there the night I ate there, he was a really frieldly guy who came around to the tables to see how things were. This was around the first week it opened. I'd go back. I am not 100% in love with the vibe, feels very californian to me, but I can't exactly say why. Still, despite the atmosphere not quite feeling like park slope, the food was really good and the prices were fine.
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