I’m swinging my BD over to NYC in September - more than likely staying in midtown near the office. Will have a whole weekend and 2 evenings to myself.
i’m looking good place to go out on Saturday night. A little bit ravey, lots of hot chicks, some decent music. I don’t think i can handle the rippers, last time i did that in Frankfurt I left £1500 lighter.
I want a good sandwich place… You know the sort - a towering sandwich of pastrami and pickle that makes ur **** itch with excitement. I will hit that up on Sunday after getting fucked up on Saturday night.
I think i need a traditional NY Pizza (not with knife and fork i aint a pussy) folded and rolled and munched up in one.
Something else traditionally NYC. I ain’t much of a shopper so don’t suggest that crap. I might go see ground zero or something like that though.
I can’t help you with sandwiches as I don’t really get the american sandwiches with an entire animal sliced thinly and crammed between 2 bits of bread. The proportions are all wrong for me. I do like Russ & Daughters as a deli though, I never found anything like it in London.
For pizza, I’m a big fan of Lombardis but by the reaction of my colleagues when I mentioned I’d been there i figured that its basically like suggesting someone in London goes to an Aberdeen steak house. Joe’s pizza is also good but I’ve only ever been there when I was hammered.
In fact I’ve been to Katz before… long long time ago and definitely considering going back. If I cant find anything more famous or outrageous then i’ll give Katz a go.
If you like steak get to Peter Lugar or Keens steakhouse, you won’t regret it. Americans do steak much better than we do. none of this paying £40 for a fillet with a few chips positioned like a dainty wee jenga tower. This is proper man portion steak and sides.
Keens is my favourite. Ask for a table near the portrait of the outrageously camp tiger.
True, US cows are probably the best, unless you get wagyu or some other niche and very expensive stuff. When I go to even very famous restaurants abroad, the steak there is not that great compared to a good US steakhouse’s.
Regarding those sandwiches, I think I have a problem with the whole category in general. Even the best pastrami sandwich is ultimately just some salty meat on a bread. In the end, it is hard to exceed the expectations of your genre.
Well there should be at most half as much meat for starters. Probably can reduce it to 1/3rd. Than add a few other ingredients for balance. Traditional NYC pastrami sandwiches are awful. You’d be better off at Subway. And I don’t say that lightly - subway is my least fav of all fast food outlets.
I find steaks in South America to be far tastier than steaks here in the US. Don’t know if it’s how the cattle is raised or how the steaks are aged, but even the best steaks here don’t seem to compare with steaks you get in run of the mill places down there.
higgs is right. not only are they better, they are cheaper. I’m mainly talking Buenos Aires. The reason is that when they brought cows over from England, they brought pedigree cows and bred those in South America. Higher quality cows leads to higher quality steaks. Bife de Chorizo is my favorite cut in Argentina.