atlantic chip shop I'll tumble for ya

Thoughts of this after pizza "snack" we devoured has me wanting to say screw the leftovers and go down to Brooklyn tonight for fishy fun.

We split a haddock and chips. I had half the haddock and none of the chips. baby steps, m, baby steps.

shacktastic

Went back to shake shack again and got my normal shackburger with cheese fries and a grape soda. So satisfying.


What wasn't so satisfying was the concrete they had with apple donuts and caramel. The donuts were stale.

veselka... let the beet continue

So I just realized as I went to make this post that I had a whooooole lotta beet food yesterday.

After my schnitzel lunch I decided to call Veselka in the East Village for a Ukranian food fix.

I ordered the super meat combo platter which had stuffed cabbage, kielbasa, 3 types of pierogi (meat, sauerkraut & mushroom, potato), soup (I chose borscht), andsalad (with a great dill vinaigrette). I also ordered the raspberry cheese blintz appetizer to make it a full piggy experience.

Hoofed it down to the EV from work and picked up my haul. Then I strolled lazily up to the UWS stopping by Sunrise Mart on 9th for a lil Japanese treat fix.

This was a HUGE amount of food for the price. If I hadn't got the blintz I would have been under 20 on the whole thing!

I tried the salad first. I spotted the ample amounts of dill in the dressing and was wary because I hate dill, but it was delicious.

The borscht was amazing! It had tender chunks of meat inside and a few beans and was perfectly tart and savory at once.


Then I opened up the meat platter and put the beet relish on top.

Note: I almost put the raspberry sauce on top because they look awful similar, but I'm a fan of tasting/smelling things before I commit my food to it. Problem averted.

Now this was a mixed bag. I like the garlicky bite of the sausage but the thing that stood out most for me was the sauerkraut and mushroom pierogi. It tasted buttery on the inside and not too sour.

The meat pierogi was a bunch of tasteless mush and the potato one was kinda cold, very plump and very meh.

The stuffed cabbage was ok, but it suffered some of the same fate of the meat pierogi.

Even though I was stuffed I ate every last bit of the blintz after dousing it in raspberry sauce and sour cream.



I'm such a piggy I forgot to take a picture of that.

So when I go back I know to just get an order of fried (the ones I had were boiled) mushroom and sauerkraut pierogi with a cup of borscht.

I'll have a little weiner in my schnitzel

So I've been seeing Schnitzel Truck (Schnitzel and Things) tweet for a few months and finally bit the bullet. They were parked at 27th & Park which is only two stops away from my office on the 6 train.

They had veal yesterday and I felt like veal yesterday. It worked.

Anyway I called ahead for my order then took a detour to the bathroom and ended up taking long than I'd thought to get down there.

When I got out of the train station I noticed Pamplano was boarded up. I guess I won't get a chance to try their ham sandwich afterall.

Anyhooo I strolled down the block (actually around in a circle cause I thought they were on Madison at the time) and picked up my haul.

Rushed back up to my office and opened it up. I'd got the veal in a platter with the austrian potato salad and the beet & feta salad.

A HUGE thin piece of veal covered almost the entire container. I had to cut it in have and part the meaty goodness to show the sides underneath for the photo. Bonus for large portions.

I <3 the beet salad. The potato salad was ok. The veal was tender, but not flavorful enough. I got the scallion, ginger whatever relish but didn't end up using it.

All in all I'd probably not go back because while it was good, I'm picky about my fried meat that's been pounded to a crisp and I can make better. Also I'm entirely too lazy to make a trek like that for something that should be wolfed down almost immediately after getting it. The fact that it had cooled by the time I got back to my office probably hurt the flavor a bit.

Dinner at Frank

We tried to go to Ippudo for dinner and found out they're closed for renovations till tomorrow, bummer.It was fareeezing so I gave him close options in the area. The next place we chose was also closed, but luckily right around the corner from a place I'd been to for brunch a bunch of times: Frank.

They gave us yummy bread and olive oil with olives in it as a starter.

I had a tiny bellini and he had a beer I forgot the name of.

Our appetizer was the crostini with pate on it. Very tasty.

For our entrees we both had a special. He had the squid ink linguine with calamari in a red sauce and I had the spaghetti matta which had shrimp in a white wine sauce, toasted almonds, bread crumbs and shaved radicchio.