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Just to add ton the list I had a great brunch at Hundred Acres on Saturday. That goat cheese thyme bread pudding topped with sauteed spinach, lemon butter, and 2 poached eggs with a side of chessy jalapeno grits was fantastic.
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For the best brunch in town, purely based on food:
Breslin - lamb burger with thrice fried fries, deep fried PB&J, full English breakfast, grilled 3-cheese sandwich (with cheese on the outside), excellent bacon, great pastries
Clinton St Baking Co - blueberry pancakes with warm maple butter, biscuit sandwich with cheddar, egg, tomato jam, and bacon
Prune - dutch baby, deep fried monte cristo, "prune juice" (lemon, orange, lime, and grapefruit)
Shopsin's - sliders, sneaky pete, mac and cheese pancakes, maple glazed donuts, blisters on my sisters, slutty cakes, swine blues pancakes (blueberry bacon), orange julius, milkshakes
Minetta Tavern - black label burger, ham baked in hay, shirred eggs with morels or truffles, latkes with poached eggs, brioche french toast, duck hash
Locanda Verde - "tre-stelle" juice (pomegranate, blood oranges and valencia oranges), sheep's milk ricotta with truffle honey and burnt orange toast, pastries, poached eggs with cotechino hash, spinach and tomato hollandaise, shaved porchetta sandwich
Of the list I provided, Minetta Tavern & Locanda Verde take reservations, the others don't.
Shopsin's also doesn't take parties larger than 4, everyone must order a meal, no allergies/substitutions, but they do have some vegetarian options on the menu. Cash only.
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Shopsin's General Store
120 Essex St, New York, NY 10002Minetta Tavern
113 MacDougal St, New York, NY 10012Prune
54 E 1st St, New York, NY 10003Locanda Verde
377 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013Clinton Street Baking Co.
4 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002The Breslin
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re: kathryn
uhockey
Feb 3, 2012 04:16 PM
I think the Breslin is a top 10 brunch of all the places I've been nationwide and Shopsin's is absolutely an "Experience" worth having at least once.
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re: uhockey
I'd love to try the Beslin's lamb burger, but I'm reluctant to go because (a) I'm not sure if the ambiance would appeal to me, and (b) they don't take reservations.
As for Shopsin's, I have not one iota of interest in eating there. Definitely not my kind of place.
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re: uhockey
The french toast/pancake options have gotten even nuttier at Shopsin's. They keep changing the menu, I can't keep up! Now there's carbonara (bacon, ham, pasta, pecorino) pancakes and also mac’n cheese and fried chicken pancakes.
And 4 types of Slutty Cakes:
original (pumpkin, peanut butter, pistachios, cinnamon)
iran (banana, pistachio butter, peanuts, brown sugar)
malay (kaya, peanut butter, cashews, blackberry glaze)
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re: kathryn
uhockey
Feb 3, 2012 04:46 PM
RGR - go early on any day of the week and The Breslin is mostly empty, quiet, and the servers are quite friendly (albeit tattooed and quirky in a "hey bro, what can I get ya" kind of way. The food is seriously worth it.
Kathryn, Haha - wow. Have to say the carbonara sounds great. Black pepper included?
For me I enjoyed listening to him hassel the hipsters as much as I enjoyed the food.
I wish your city's baked goods scene wasn't so fantastic so I could commit to more brunches. As it stands I'm stuck deciding between Public, Red Rooster, Buttermilk Channel, The Dutch, and Prune with only 2 days. I'd do Minetta for one but the Brandade is a must and it is apparently only on the dinner menu, though there does appear to be a salt cod dish on the breakfast menu I just can't get an idea of exactly what it is.
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re: uhockey
I have nothing against servers with tattoos, and I'm fine a casual attitude as long as service is attentive. Mostly empty and quiet would be great, but...
When you say "go early on any day of the week," I'm not interested in midweek breaKfast.
Brunch starts at 7 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m. We usually eat brunch between 11 and noon. I can't imagine the Breslin isn't busy then.
I see that lunch is served until 4 p.m. We sometimes want a place where we can have a late lunch between 2:30 and 3. Maybe that would be a good time to go. .
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re: RGR
uhockey
Feb 3, 2012 05:38 PM
Yeah - I went at 8 or 9am I believe. By 11:00 I gather they'd be hoppin'.
And, for the record I have nothing against tattoos or people who use the word bro - but just to convey the difference between The Breslin and, say, Maialino.
In other news, I can't believe Capsouto Freres doesn't get more attention. That menu looks seriously delicious.
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re: uhockey
We had dinner at Capsouto Freres once back in the 90's. J. was with us. It was a cold, windy evening, and we walked some distance to the restaurant from where we parked the car.
As best as I can recall, the food was very good. They are known for their soufflés so, of course, we each had one, and they were delicious. Very attractive interior as well.
Until now, I hadn't looked at the menu in a long time. It does have a lot of appealing dishes on it, including cassoulet, Mr. R.'s favorite and duck with cassis sauce, which always gets my attention.
Adding it to my "return to" list.
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re: RGR
uhockey
Feb 4, 2012 05:49 AM
I'm sure you read about Benoit's cassoulet?
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re: uhockey
Yes, I did read about Bertineau's induction into the cassoulet hall of fame. We had dinner at Benoit not long after it opened. I think Betineau is now the third chef to helm the kitchen there. Mr. R. had cassoulet, but it was the Jean-Jacques Rachou version. Although Rachou wasn't Benoit's e.c. at the time, he was in the kitchen part-time doing a couple of his classic dishes. The space that Benoit occupies was formerly home to Rachou's La Côte Basque and his subsequent Brasserie LCB. We will definitely have to go back to Benoit for the Bertineau version.
When I mentioned Capsuto Frères to Mr. R., he reminded me that he'd had the cassoulet when we were there.
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re: uhockey
prdct
Feb 6, 2012 12:55 PM
I agree--the Capsuto Freres brunch menu LOOKS great, but I had a pretty terrible brunch there a few years back. We had a family gathering there--about 10 people and not one person enjoyed their food. Eggs were overcooked, fish dishes were undersalted etc. We split some souffles for dessert and those were pretty good, but IMHO not worth it considering the quaility of the rest of the food. Not to mention that we had really bad service. Not someplace I would return.
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451 Washington St, New York, NY 10013
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Cheeryvisage
Feb 3, 2012 12:49 PM
I like Maialino and Toloache. For actual lunch, The Modern Bar Room.
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Toloache
251 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10019The Modern
9 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019Maialino
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re: Monica
Cheeryvisage
Feb 3, 2012 04:11 PM
The OP wants to do Sunday brunch. Unfortunately, The Modern Dining Room isn't open on Sundays. If it had been a weekday and if the OP didn't mind a more formal atmosphere, I'd definitely recommend the Dining Room over the Bar Room.
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re: Cheeryvisage
prima
Mar 19, 2012 08:36 AM
Cheeryvisage, which lunch dishes do you recommend the most at the Bar Room at the Modern?
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