It’s the second Monday of the month, so that means it’s trivia night at Bar Great Harry. 8pm. Hosted by Mary of Rocketship Comics and Pascal of Balthrop Alabama. Corner of Smith and Sackett in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. F or G train to the Carroll Street stop. BYOS(nacks).
According to Waiter from Waiter Rant, today is National Waiters Day. He urges you to tip 30% day if you go out to eat.
In other news, restaurant cooks still bitter about shitty hourly wages and resentful towards waitrons.
John-Phillipe is worth the 20+%.
PS: The waitrons at The Restaurant celebrated National Waiters Day (which should really be the gender neutral “waitron”, you sexist c-suckers) by going to a midnight showing of the new India Jones movie at the local indie theatre. I celebrated by cutting my finger and watching Top Chef. Go FOH!
Trivia night is tonight at Bar Great Harry. Located at the corner of Smith and Sackett in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Hosted by a couple of crazy kids from Rocketship, the comic book store. 8:30pm. Dogs and dawgs welcome. One scumbag at a time, please.
“Look, my gut tells me Backstreet, and that’s where my brain is. With my gut. They is roomates. But sometimes they don’t get along too well – you know they is always arguing about the bills.”
Stinky, the cheese shop here in Carroll Gardens, is having a cheese eating contest next Sunday, the 24th. Cram down as much cheese into your pie hole as possible in one minute. Registration is free. The contest starts at 2pm sharp. Information here.
It’s like the gang bang of food porn.
Three installments. Water Taxi Beach. Long Island City. Free admission. Free films. Short sentences.
Check out the list of films that will be shown. Apparently people who like to make food films also like using puns. I like food. I hate puns. I’m so conflicted.
For some reason, food must be purchased advanced and online. Twenty bucks that this will be disastrous the day of, when people who didn’t know about that rule get hungry and want some food. Stupid rule information here.
Not this kind of food film. The kind where pictures move.
Official website. Unfortunately, they don’t say WHERE it is. They do say June 29 to July 31st, which doesn’t sound right. Nor do they have a contact number or email address. They must have outsourced some sweatshop website designers.
Another site told me it’s at 66 Water Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn. June 29 to July 1st. Admission is free. Singapore food emphasizes seafood!
Don’t hate on big shitty food festivals, Mr. Kim
The French Culinary Institute is holding an auction to raise funds for scholorships on Monday, June 11th. What’s on the block? Chefs. Dates with chefs. Famous chefs!
I would go, but the ticket is $250 just get in the door. But it includes snacks! (Those snacks better be made out of bald eagle and tiger meats, rare root vegetables cultivated by monks on mountaintops and children’s tears.)
I guess it’s already begun. The wave of delicious beef and pork and sauce.
Joey V., BBQ aficianado, alterted me to The 5th Annual Big Apple BBQ. June 9th and 10th at MSG. $100 for two people.
If you have an AmEx card you can get a “fastpass”, which I guess allows you be an asshole and cut in line or something.
I think if you have the black AmEx, you can get servers to bring the BBQ to you and feed you.
Wednesday night’s Stone Park Cafe / Six Point Brewery dinner.
Short post about it because I was in a rush and forgot my camera. They had a couple of Six Point brew masters there. Not only was the theme beer pairing, but it was also smoke. Cold smoked creme fraiche potato salad. Alder smoked black cod. And smoked choco ice cream! (Which I think may be a novelty, but it was fun to try nonetheless.)
The beers were well paired (you got about eight ounces of beers per course), except for the wheat beer with the amuse of Vietnamese spare ribs. Matt said they should have served something with more carbonation to cleanse your palate of the grease. The brewmaster said he paired it because the wheat beer has a hint of pineapple at the finish and he thought it might have worked well with the Asian style of the mini ribs.
The almost barely visible sprinkle of Maldon sea salt on the sirloin means told me that I was in a fine dining establishment. Fine dining seasoning! (Which is a phrase I’m going to use anytime I put salt on anything. Thanks, Michele!)
They did something cute and brought out teeny servings of hops, malt and barley between courses for you to sniff and taste. The malt and barley would make for awesome granola. The hops were inedible, but look like green rabbit pellets and smelled faintly like weed.
I got the itis halfway through the meal.
Service was poor for the first part of the meal, but I think they were slammed. Apparently they were supposed to know someone from The Restaurant was coming in, but I didn’t get to meet the chef. It’s okay though, I wasn’t in the mood for schmoozing because of said itis.
This was delicious and fun and I’d definitely do it again. I think $55 pp for six courses and booze is pretty fair.
All this blogging about Brooklyn doesn’t mean I don’t heart other boroughs. Astoria is a great neighborhood, even though most landlords don’t approve of Pokey’s. My favorite Americanized Chinese food is there, where I get can order of chicken wings with fries for like $3.
The Cuisine of Queens & Beyond Food Tasting Event
Tuesday, May 22nd
6-9 pm
$50 in advance and $60 cash the day of
Featuring 47 different Queens restaurants
718-777-7918
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