Do you know Barnyard Cheese Shop NYC: East Village: Great on the spot house made hot and cold specialty sandwiches e.g. on flauta, baguette, sour dough + and plus many other pluses, both imports including cheeses and other in house items -- go there --
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Everybody should go check out the new Essex Street Market-it is very fancy and slick, completely different than the old cinderblock building. The same butchers, fishmonger, produce sellers but now more lunch and early dinner choices and seating with a view.
At shopsin's the food can be interesting -- though up-and-down, -- but the service is *deliberately* very rude. This is well-known, and should be noted in any review of it.
"The only thing worse than a lackluster brunch is a practiced, performed public hatred of it. "
Hatred of brunch. Seriously? Only in New York.
Hopefully, Shopins has removed the tiny confederate flag they use to have in their prior stall at the old Essex market.
Minnie’s on Mott offers superb brunch and dim sum and is not well known, lost in the warren of Chinese restaurants in that neighborhood.
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'All are worth the trip outside your neighborhood...'
And here I was, naive me, thinking 'ah great...finally some props for Queens, the Bx, S.I., 'other parts of Bk'.
But nope. Same old Manhattan and 'Williamsburg' cliches.
Who researches and writes this stuff? Transplants who live in Northwest Brooklyn?
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Russ & Daughters Cafe does not accept brunch reservations. (Dinner reservations are accepted via Resy.)