New York Mag Feature

Its no secret that Ol Dirty loves chicken, so here is a really fantastic slideshow of some of the cities best fried birds. The links at the bottom also lead to a nice map of the best fried chicken spots in brooklyn, as well as a ranking of some of the best fast food chicken.

http://nymag.com/restaurants/features/59438/

The pilgrimage

Few places in New York will make me travel long distances for ordinary foods.  Its the places that make me hop on a subway and take an hour or two for everyday staples that really earn my respect.  A perfect example would be Kat'z.  What does Kat'z make, sandwiches big whoop, but every now and then I hop on the F and trip down to Houston street

this dudes why

http://www.alwayshungryny.com/videos/behind-the-counter-katzs-deli/ 

tip him while he cuts and your gonna get a few more slices on your pastrami 

 

Beer fest NYC

New York City is not a place renowned for it's beers, like many German and Cech cities.  However as most New Yorkers know the city is home to several craft brewers of decent quality.  I'm no beer expert (www.beeradvocate.com/beer/101//topic:Beer), but I like to think my tastes are discerning enough to tell a good beer from a bad.  Well anyway the New York Craft Beer Festival kicked off this week, with 83 participating bars.  Although most of my readership probably cannot enjoy these brews in bars (cindys is a sapporo only joint), you can still get them in six packs and bottles around the city if you ever feel like not drinking piss water in a 40 oz one night.  Ive tried to pick beers which I think you can find in stores.

  

Brooklyn Brewery Monster Ale:  Aged beer? dont you only do that with wine?  Well it turns out that some beers meld flavors as they age.  This beers been aged since 2003 so you know whats good.

Avatar Jasmine IPA:   We know whats good with IPA.  I love finding this brand at peoples houses because I know there not content to drink shit like Budweiser.  The first thing your gonna notice is that this beer smells like a bouquet (leviish), and you can taste the jasmine, which might turn people off put this is pretty good and flavorful for a pale beer. 

Big A IPA: prob good for the 40 oz crowd who wants to upgrade a bit, because according to Jon Ludbaum the New York City Rare Beer Imports president (havnt actually had this one so im going with his word) this beer is 9.6 percent alcohol.  Besides being loaded with alcohol, this beer has a nice fruit taste without being like a bottle of sugar or one of those dumbass hard lemonades. 

Bum Report

The good people at NYC daily deals have informed me that for tomorrow until 3am restaurant.com is selling 25$ gift cards to over 800 nyc restaurants for one dollar. Extreme bums will stock up, normal people will maybe cop one for a gift. Either way check it out, there are some good places in a wide range of areas.

DBDB and the rise of burgers

The weird initials stand for Daniel Boulud does Burgers. For those not in the know Daniel Boulud is the genius behind uptown restaurant Daniel (where I had the best and second most expensive meal of my entire life). Why would a man with such credentials in fine cuisine stoop as low as to open up a semi industrial bistro that specializes in burgers? Because people eat shit tons of burgers that's why. The American burger has followed a similar path to another American icon the Levi's jean. When Strauss first put rivets in the 501 and made it available to the hardworking farm people of the American west he stooped the blue jean in working class lore. Nowadays however everyone wears jeans, and a pair of 501's goes for around 100 bucks. In the US hamburgers have long been associated with fast food, never a classy venture, but now they've crept into the trendiest of the trendy joints across new york and the world. Take DBDB for example. One of the places three types of burger, "the frenchie" has so many words describing the toppings and seasonings after "6 oz patty," that you should just skip to the part where it says 22$. Fuck, a burger for 22$? that's as crazy as jeans for 100$, or maybe its not crazy at all.

Alan Richmen gives a much better review then I could (probably because he gets a 300$ allowance to eat whatever he wants there and I had to use the money I had just gotten from using the coin thing in commerce bank ) head over to his blog to check it out, links on the right

sam ross