Jason Perlow

I was not impressed with Blue Moon in Englewood. Not much better than a Chi-Chi's in my opinion.

Actually Wondees serves this, its called Moo Ping. She would probably tell you whats in it.

jsibley: check out the thread on La Posada in Teaneck on this board. I really liked it. http://www.egullet.com/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=6&topic=181

Interesting. I saw a Food Network show last night that I had recorded on my PVR unit called "Follow that Butter" which is all about Marie d'Issigny butter from Normandy and how mind boggingly great it is, showed the cows eating the Norman grass, showed it being made, and traced it all the way from production to final delivery to Daniel Bouloud. Apparently Daniel uses it exclusively. They also had a segment at Dean and Deluca, where they showed an American butter that was 86 percent butterfat which is apparently as good as the Normandy stuff. Forgot what it is called though.

Nah. Topic Drifting is fashionable here. Our software doesnt crash your system when you do that on this site :)

hey Jonathan! What took you so long? Great to see you here.

...vending machine bagel dogs. If I could find them in the supermarket, the exact kind i used to eat, I would still eat them now.

A few things about Bay View, they are the 2nd largest processor of coffee beans on the island (Captn. Cook is number 1), and they also farm their own beans as well. They buy from many small independent growers and are highly selective in the coffees they sell for themselves, the other processed/roasted beans they sell to other coffee producers. As rachel says, they farm their own Mac nuts as well and they are literally the best ones we have ever had. They are more expensive but well worth it.

See the whole point of having a kosher pastrami and salami is to have it with Dr. Browns cel-ray or black cherry. Egg Cream with kosher deli sandwiches is not only categorically by definition sacrelige, but the milk/choco/ combination doesnt help to alleviate the heartburn. Dr. Browns cel-ray is designed to induce burping, to get rid of the gas.

ok link fixed.

Guys we are battling for #50 and #51 with Dez1.com, we are facing the dreaded downward pointing green arrow! Rally people, Rally!!!!!!! Lets get over the hump!

Good News. Saigon Gourmet, the great little shack in Fort Lee with excellent food by chef Katie, is going to be opening a new restaurant named Saigon (same name as their original restaurant in Cresskill which closed several years ago) across the street from Victoria's Secret in Englewood on Palisade Avenue. They anticpate opening in late April or early March.

In certain parts of Italy, it is commonplace to have a few Negroni's before the meal at a fine restaurant. Its equal parts of Campari, Gin, and sweet Vermouth.

Ed has commented on Barrelito elsewhere in this forum. Barrelito is a very smooth, non-aggressive and non-smoky rum. Its one of Ed's favorites. Its made by the smallest distiller on the island. Ed prefers the 2 star while I prefer the 3, but both are excellent. the 3 star is a blend of rums that is 6-12 years old and the 2 star is a blend of 2 to 4.

Il Mondo Vecchio and Scalini Fideli are both very nice restaurants. Also Garlic Rose Cafe in Madison if you guys like garlic-themed dishes. Trattoria Toscana in East Hanover is also very nice, its a small cozy romantic place. Cinque Figlie in Whippany is also considered to be one of the best italian restaurants in the area. Actually I'd place it over both scalini fideli and il mondo vecchio but thats just my personal taste. Rosie is also a big fan of Blue Sky Cafe in Montclair, I've been there as well, its got some very interesting new american/fusion dishes and phenomenal desserts. They have a special room upstairs with a table that can take about a dozen people and they are also byob.

Steve are you -sure- zinfandel is native to California? Isnt the general consensus is that it came from Austria at some point but the varietal in europe is now only grown in Italy? http://www.stratsplace.com/7ich/austrian_zin.html

Becco is probably one of the best dining values in the entire city. I recommend it highly.

Ron Del Barrelito 3 Star and 2 star. Clearly the best native Puerto Rican rums you are going to find there.

Well, considering we ate there this evening with Lin and Andy... I would rate that as a definite yes... I actually had their regular food for the first time this evening... actually very good...

i too had been to bangkok garden many times, but never wondee's. and after my meal today, i too agree that this was a mistake!!! Yeah, its mind blowing how good a Thai restaurant that little place is. ordered pad thai, only because i treat it as some sort of "thai benchmark." it was great. light. tasty. Actually the Pad Thai made with the cellophane noodles is even better -- although if you want a real treat, order her "sphagetti kee maow" but tell her to do it the original way with the flat rice noodles, thai spicy. It rocks.

I added this because it fell off the top of the announcement list. Steve Klc and Steven Shaw, on behalf of all the eGullet affiliates, would like to invite you to participate in our inaugural eGullet tasting. This first tasting will focus on Champagne and sparkling wines. We'll post the list of wines now in order to give you a chance to collect them and taste at your leisure. On December 14 -- a week from now -- we'll start a thread on which you can post your tasting notes and observations (and of course we will discuss and debate). We'll leave that thread open for one week, after which it will be locked and archived. We hope this will be the first of many tastings, not all of which must involve wine (chocolate may be the next one). If this idea takes off, we plan to create a special "eGullet Tastings" board, and we may try to work with some suppliers to have them assemble special discounted members-only tasting packs of their products. But that's for the future. Here are the wines for the Champagne/sparkling-wine tasting: AMERICAN Domaine Chandon Napa Valley Brut NV (พ.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) Roederer Estate Brut NV (ภ.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) Schramsberg Blanc de Blancs 1997 (ษ.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) FRENCH Pommery Brut NV (ห.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) Moet & Chandon White Star NV (อ.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) Mumm's Cordon Rouge Brut NV (อ.95 at Sherry-Lehmann New York) All these wines are available at Sherry-Lehmann and Morrell & Company in New York City. In addition, because these are widely distributed products, all should be available in most regions of the United States (though you may need to visit more than one wine shop), while the French ones should have good availability worldwide. This is an auspicious time to find a good selection of sparkling wine at your local wine shop, because inventories will be expanded for the holiday season. We encourage you to participate in the tasting at any level, be it by trying just two bottles or all six. We tried to choose Champagnes and sparkling wines at the low end of the price spectrum (low for a high-quality product, that is) but there's still about 贶 worth of wine on that list, which means the best way to taste it is in a group. Perhaps this will prompt some groups of eGullet members in various regional clusters to assemble for tastings. Or perhaps you'll want to get a group of friends together and report the group's tasting notes back to us. You may already be hosting a holiday event in the coming week, in which case you could kill two birds with one stone by offering this tasting to your guests. This quantity of wine can easily support 15 or more tasters, when consumed in tasting portions, so the per-person cost is not at all prohibitive. In a few days, we'll post some suggestions for how best to taste and evaluate these wines, both alone and in relation to one another (we chose with several points of regional and stylistic comparison in mind). Please feel free to discuss procedural matters anytime, starting now. But out of respect to those who want the purest possible tasting experience, we request that you not post any actual tasting notes or other comments on the wines themselves until the 14th. Thanks. -Steve Klc & Steven Shaw a/k/a "The Two Steves"

wow.. coming from our resident chinese food hater, thats high praise indeed!

Personally I disagree with anyone against the euro for globalization or europeanization reasons. As someone who has travelled all over europe, I can tell you that as a tourist its a royal pain in the ass to have to constantly convert currency and calculate exchange rates to the dollar when purchasing items... By unifying the currency, prices will stabilize and businesses will be able to compete with each other using similar pricing. It will be no different for that local cheese farmer than it is in the US... if his artisanal products are good, people will still want them. To say that a unified currency can swipe away hundreds of years of national pride and culture of any of the Euro Zone members is rediculous, especially in the case of the French, who are known for their pride in such things. Anything that makes europe more accessible to world travellers, especially in this time where people are afraid of world travel to begin with, is a good thing. For what its worth, if the currency unification project succeeds, the current party pooper, England, will have no choice but to join up.

I happen to like Ping's at 22 Mott St. for both regular cantonese and dim sum a lot. However if you can bear it to make a trip across the GW bridge to Fort Lee, I happen to think for Hong-Kong style seafood and dim sum, Silver Pond is gotta be tops on my list in the entire tri state area. I have brought all my asian friends there and they have told me in many ways it is better than what you may find in Chinatown.

My first true life-altering coffee experience was in Israel during the summer of 1990 -- a little, nondescript cafe situated in the Tel Aviv "Shuk", where I had a french-style breakfast of croissants, fresh-squeezed Yaffa orange juice and arabic (turkish) coffee. Like freebasing caffeine, marvelous stuff. I had gone to Italy prior to that and had real italian espresso, but its the arabic coffee in Israel that I found most memorable. The only place in the US that I have found so far that has one anywhere close to it is Bennies in Englewood, NJ. Which also has some really killer arabic-style spiced tea and homemade lebanese pastries/baklava too.