When we spotted the beautifully dressed families outside Ambiance Caribbean Restaurant on Avenue L on Saturday evening, my co-adventurers and I had two thoughts: 1. We were headed to the right place. 2. We hoped that the right place had six seats for us. Posts Tagged ‘ brooklyn ’
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Haitian Ambiance on the Brooklyn Border
When we spotted the beautifully dressed families outside Ambiance Caribbean Restaurant on Avenue L on Saturday evening, my co-adventurers and I had two thoughts: 1. We were headed to the right place. 2. We hoped that the right place had six seats for us. Soup Dumplings and a Reminder of Haiti
At $5.75 for eight, the soup dumplings at Grand Sichuan are worth a stop, especially since there's a taxi stand close by (on 28th St. between 9th and 10th). I wasn't far from that taxi stand when I hailed Gardy, who showed nothing but Haitian hospitality as we made our way to Union Square... Turkish Delight, Further Afield
Stay tuned for (more) Brooklyn…
A hungry New Yorker took one look at my map of cabbie-recommended restaurants in the Big Apple and had this to say: "More Brooklyn!"
More Brooklyn, I hear you... Curry and Convergence at No Pork
I really wanted the food at No Pork - cabbie Laskar Korshed's favorite spot for halal Chinese in Brooklyn - to knock it out of the park. Not only because I dragged four hungry New Yorkers there to try the taxi driver's recommended restaurant, but also because the halal-kosher menu draws an unlikely mix...Read more »
Tasting Yemen in Brooklyn
At Hadramout Restaurant, Al Jazeera broadcasts at high volume. Customers - primarily men - shout in Arabic, drowning out the noise of the news from the restaurant's 12 tables. And the lamb is as close to home as a Yemeni can find in New York… To Little Odessa with Oleg
A former coal mining engineer from Moscow, Oleg Zaretskiy came to Brooklyn in 1990 and eventually brought his entire family to the United States from Russia. Oleg has driven more than a million miles over 16 years as a cab driver, and now he can barely stand to be behind the wheel. To cope...Read more »
