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Post by tamade »

bnralt wrote: post #374
pzone wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to live near Bagelsaurus and it is better than any bagel I can get in my Brooklyn neighborhood now. Dragon Pizza there similarly high quality.

There are a number of foods that are supposedly only being amazing within a certain geographic location, but the best ones I've had were far outside if that location. The best shrimp poboy I had was in Tampa; nothing I could find in New Orleans even came close. There was a New York style pizza place in Shanghai which people that went back to America would talk about missing (better than any pizza I've had in NYC). An…

Homeslice in Shanghai is fantastic

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by magixx »

mc32 wrote: post #384
yodsanklai wrote: post #311

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> so you really tend not to get bad French staples at very many places--even if it's a random touristy place. French here! I'm usually not that picky with croissants, but much more with other patisseries, such as eclairs. It's a bit harder to find good patisseries, and the quality doesn't always correlate with the price. Even in what looks like legit "patisseries artisanales", you can find eclairs which are basically…

Maybe I'm wrong but I had the impression that in France pastry shops had legit pastry chefs who had to go through apprenticeships whereas in America for example, pastry shops give a baker a recipe to follow and that's pretty much it (for the ones that bake in-house I mean)

For simpler items like croissants, IMO the recipe and following directions is all that matters. I've made a decent amount of semi complex desserts from recipe authors I trust and they turned out great. Sure, there are some minor physical skills you learn and knowledge you gain, but for baking I find that as long as you follow good recipes precisely you can get great results. This does fall apart when you start talking about decorating desserts as that is definitely more art/skill than science.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by tamade »

neilv wrote: post #182

The best slice in the Boston area ("the city that always sleeps") was the one you could get at 2am. It had a loose connection to HN-style hackers. Hi-Fi Pizza and Subs was a rare place that would serve the Central Square clubgoers around last call, as well as the people walking home in the cold from a late night at MIT. There'd be a welcoming warm light from the somewhat gritty street, and a fast moving line. You'd g…

Best slice is Noch's in harvard sq

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Post by abruzzi »

I actually prefer my pizza with less sauce, or preferably white pizza (I know, sacrilege) either the garlic butter variant or the ricotta variant. I've never had pizza in NYC, but favorites have always been Rizzo's and Roman Delight in the northern Philly suburbs. Both great places that I've eaten at hundreds of times. I'm sure NYC has good pizza, but Philadelphia is no slouch.

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Post by emptysea »

neilv wrote: post #218
awhitty wrote: post #130

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I 100% agree, and I've only visited NYC a couple times. Each time I visit, I try to eat at least one slice of pizza and one bagel every day. The thing that blows me away is how generally good they are, no matter where I buy them. Of course I'll look at reviews, but I won't walk more than 5 blocks to get a slice. Never been disappointed. Same thing visiting Paris - you can hunt for the BEST croissant, but the remarkab…

Has any NYC bagel aficionado living in Boston tried Bagelsaurus? (In Porter Square, on Mass. Ave.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xup2Lcd4Ers

If you're in the Boston area go to Bagel world (technically not in Boston, but a little north of it)

edit: for crossiants and other treats, A.J. King is my fav -- they supply a lot of the Boston cafes

Kane's for donuts

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Post by sbilstein »

ghaff wrote: post #164
awhitty wrote: post #130

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I 100% agree, and I've only visited NYC a couple times. Each time I visit, I try to eat at least one slice of pizza and one bagel every day. The thing that blows me away is how generally good they are, no matter where I buy them. Of course I'll look at reviews, but I won't walk more than 5 blocks to get a slice. Never been disappointed. Same thing visiting Paris - you can hunt for the BEST croissant, but the remarkab…

One thing I've heard said about French food generally in the past is that there's an entire supply chain in France around French food in particular so you really tend not to get bad French staples at very many places--even if it's a random touristy place. You can rinse and repeat in many places for various items. For example, when I was last in Germany, you'd get good sandwiches with good bread at any random train st…

Oh yes! Extend that to fish and you get Tokyo where you have to work your ass off to get mediocre sushi.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by ineedasername »

billiam wrote: post #90

Native New Yorker here. Out of towners are obsessed with the BEST slice, but the true measure of NYC's 45 degree greatness is the decent quality following a Poisson distribution. My tip: just travel to any random spot in the five boroughs. First; you will be impressed how close you are to a pizza spot wherever you are. Second: you will be impressed with the slice, and with the variety of people who are good at making…

For pizza this seems to have a halo effect as well. It you drop into a non-franchise pizzeria anywhere within roughly 50 miles of NYC then chances are you’ll have a pretty good NYC-style slice, and a reasonable chance of a slice that can stand next to most slices in NYC and still be proud of itself (if a bit awestruck by the company it finds itself in).

I’ve seen a bit of this in areas of the country that have seen some emigration from NYC outwards: NC, FL. Maybe less so as you go west, unless some here have encountered them?

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Post by wahnfrieden »

yunwal wrote: post #416
wahnfrieden wrote: post #169

is the new lucali slice any good?

Great but still not worth the hype

oh i've been frequenting lucali for ages and it is worth the trouble for me, especially the calzone. i'm nearby and it's not hard to time it or chill at a cafe or bar. not many good no corkage byob places of that caliber either.

Re: NYC Slice

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Post by kevinwang »

kasey_junk wrote: post #25
rcme wrote: post #15

Many who grow up in the NY area grow up on pizza. In childhood, it's often eaten as a quick meal that doesn't require cooking. In adolescence, pizza is one of the only foods you can afford to eat out with your friends after school. In college, there's nothing like a drunken slice of pizza at 1 am. It's hard to overstate what a satisfying comfort food pizza is. There's truly nothing like it.

That’s not just NY. I suspect it’s basically all of the US.

Sadly I feel this way about fast food chains and not pizza or tacos or anything cool (suburbs of California)
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