Thursdays with TT: Stadium Pizza
August 19, 2010 by TT
Filed under Around NYC, Cuban, Cuisine, Feisty Fun, The Bronx, Tuesdays with TT
My second Yankee game of the year and the first with CT. She was supposed to go with me a couple weeks ago, but got sick. She was convinced that she was cursed from going to a game at the new stadium, since she also tried to go last year. If we were both able to leave early enough, I wanted to check out the “secret cheap bar” near the stadium that I haven’t been to in a while. A couple years ago my buddy took me here because they have 3 beers for $10. [...]
Cabana, revisited
August 28, 2009 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Cheap Eats, Cuban, Forest Hills, Queens, Restaurants
Post-movie date, having secured a great parking spot, BF and I wandered around the Forest Hills area looking to grab some grub. I really wanted to try this place his good friend had highly recommended, but I guess lots of people know about the place as it was PACKED and the wait was 40-50 minutes. It was raining pretty hard at this point so we opted to keep walking instead… and finally ended up at Cabana. I’ve been here so many times in the past 10 years I honestly can’t say if I’d ever been with him, but whatever, I [...]
Cabana, Forest Hills
December 3, 2008 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Cheap Eats, Cuban, Forest Hills, Restaurants
After some sample sale shopping recently, LL and I were feeling a bit munchy and decided to head back to our ‘hood, Forest Hills, to grab some food.
Since it was just two of us, and we weren’t that hungry, we hit up Cabana and split two appetizers (and a pitcher of white sangria, which was yummy).
First up was the octopus salad… this was right on, dressed lightly and tons of flavor going on. It was perfectly sized for sharing.
Our other choice was the appetizer sampler platter, a little bit of everything. Deep fried empanadas, shrimp fritters, broccoli fritters, and [...]
Asia de Cuba
August 21, 2008 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Cuban, Fusion, Manhattan, Midtown, Restaurants
After months of back and forth over where to go for our “first date”, DT and I finally settled on Asia de Cuba for the inaugural dinner. Picture quality is really terrible because the lighting in that place was awful.
Originally, we’d intended to order all appetizers, but the $69 tasting menu sounded like a really good deal – three of their most popular appetizers, two of their most popular entrees, and then a dessert to share, along with an amuse bouche to start, and an intermezzo.
Our pretty amuse bouche. DT thought she was oh-so-funny, asking me if I planned [...]
