Every year at about this time I find my self at a loss trying to remember all the great outdoor-seating restaurants I had "re/discovered" the year before.
Care to partake in some list making - restaurants with outdoor seating/gardens?
when i worked in midtown i loved tipping into plaey park for lunch snacks.
okay, I'll do one:
79 Street Boat Basin which I haven't been to in a couple of years (largely because when I think to go I am turned off by the fact that the rest of the world is probably thinking about going too - read: beautiful weekend days).
I went to the new maritime hotel restaurant this weekend La Bottega. While it was nice to sit outside, and the food was just okay, the prices were too high and the service rushed.
That's two.
timely mug on outdoor dining
Toronto is all patios all the time. If there is a warmish day in February, people put out tables and chairs. My favourites are Old York Tavern and La Hacienda. The former is next to the slaugherhouse, though, so if you didn't grow up surrounded by pig farms like I did you might find the "atmosphere" a bit thick. the latter has lots of cats running around on the cross beams overhead, but they will rarely come down and interact.
This makes me think of London pubs sally mckay.. Toronto sounds nice.
It also - just the beam part - made think of a place in New York that I'm not sure if I would describe as great or terrible. I guess it depends on the night and the company (the first time I went years ago I was on an awkward date, that qualified as terrible). In keeping with this thread, I will note that it does have an outside "yard" of sorts.
Sounds like fun
(more from MUG):
Bar:
Red Hook gets a new saloon called Moonshine, 317 Columbia [Woodhull/Rapelye] 718.422.0563, with a pool table, beer garden, and serious jukebox.
1492 - Clinton between Stanton and Rivington
'inoteca - Rivington and Ludlow
Le Jardin - Cleveland Place
I like the seats outside 'inoteca at dusk, the new hotel and the fine examples of tenement exteriors make for a feeling that is simultaneously very New York and something like Berlin in the late '70s, early '80s. But I always feel I'm just limping after city like Paris, where every good table has a dog under it; as a new dog minder, outdoor dining takes on a more urgent appeal.
what is this spam, it is terrible. How do they get here - what are they targeting?
It's called "comment spam." I know at least one blogger who has turned off his comments because of it. It's robotic--it seems to be hitting [add a comment] at some random post on each page of the Tree. So far ours is like a mild case of the crabs (or ants as Bill said).
Thanks tom moody.
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Care to partake in some list making - restaurants with outdoor seating/gardens?
- selma 5-16-2004 11:30 pm
when i worked in midtown i loved tipping into plaey park for lunch snacks.
- bill 5-17-2004 12:24 am [add a comment]
okay, I'll do one:
79 Street Boat Basin which I haven't been to in a couple of years (largely because when I think to go I am turned off by the fact that the rest of the world is probably thinking about going too - read: beautiful weekend days).
I went to the new maritime hotel restaurant this weekend La Bottega. While it was nice to sit outside, and the food was just okay, the prices were too high and the service rushed.
That's two.
- selma 5-17-2004 5:28 pm [add a comment]
timely mug on outdoor dining
- linda 5-18-2004 5:59 pm [add a comment]
Thanks Linda.
- selma 5-18-2004 7:04 pm [add a comment]
I dont know any of these - excepting the mermaid inn.
- selma 5-20-2004 1:14 am [add a comment]
Toronto is all patios all the time. If there is a warmish day in February, people put out tables and chairs. My favourites are Old York Tavern and La Hacienda. The former is next to the slaugherhouse, though, so if you didn't grow up surrounded by pig farms like I did you might find the "atmosphere" a bit thick. the latter has lots of cats running around on the cross beams overhead, but they will rarely come down and interact.
- sally mckay 5-18-2004 11:47 pm [add a comment]
This makes me think of London pubs sally mckay.. Toronto sounds nice.
It also - just the beam part - made think of a place in New York that I'm not sure if I would describe as great or terrible. I guess it depends on the night and the company (the first time I went years ago I was on an awkward date, that qualified as terrible). In keeping with this thread, I will note that it does have an outside "yard" of sorts.
- selma 5-20-2004 1:03 am [add a comment]
Sounds like fun
(more from MUG):
Bar:
Red Hook gets a new saloon called Moonshine, 317 Columbia [Woodhull/Rapelye] 718.422.0563, with a pool table, beer garden, and serious jukebox.
- selma 5-21-2004 12:05 am [add a comment]
1492 - Clinton between Stanton and Rivington
'inoteca - Rivington and Ludlow
Le Jardin - Cleveland Place
I like the seats outside 'inoteca at dusk, the new hotel and the fine examples of tenement exteriors make for a feeling that is simultaneously very New York and something like Berlin in the late '70s, early '80s. But I always feel I'm just limping after city like Paris, where every good table has a dog under it; as a new dog minder, outdoor dining takes on a more urgent appeal.
- rachael 6-03-2004 4:51 am [add a comment]
what is this spam, it is terrible. How do they get here - what are they targeting?
- selma 10-14-2004 10:46 pm [add a comment]
It's called "comment spam." I know at least one blogger who has turned off his comments because of it. It's robotic--it seems to be hitting [add a comment] at some random post on each page of the Tree. So far ours is like a mild case of the crabs (or ants as Bill said).
- tom moody 10-14-2004 11:00 pm [add a comment]
Thanks tom moody.
- selma 10-14-2004 11:03 pm [add a comment]