Santa Fe Steakhouse

Recently, while wandering around Forest Hills after a movie (Tower Heist, which was fun for all its NYC scenes, and included this awesome line: “And girls from Forest Hills don’t usually become FBI agents!”), I realized I was hungry and needed something to eat.  I noticed Santa Fe Steakhouse, where I ate once probably 10 years ago, and we decided to give it a try.  Caesar salad that came with our entrees, which was underdressed and had croutons way too hard for me to comfortably eat.  But I dutifully ate my vegetables…  It is a source of endless amusement to [...]

Tropix Bar & Lounge

One recent night, I headed out in the neighborhood to have drinks and bites with VT, who’s lived a few blocks from me for at least a year now and we’ve never run into each other!  Had to remedy this.  She grabbed a friend and off we waltzed to Tropix, a nearby sports-ish bar.  When we sat down, our server immediately brought us chips and salsa to munch on.  Cool.  Tasty enough to munch on while we browsed the menu.  The special that day, as it was a Wednesday, was pitchers of margaritas for $10.  Each pitcher was about three [...]

Dirty Pierre’s

I’ve written about Dirty Pierre’s twice before – here and here – and said that I would be back for Mets away games.  Well, unfortunately, my team has long been eliminated, but I love baseball enough that I found myself at Dirty Pierre’s to watch playoff games twice recently.  I decided to experiment with figuring out my beer tastes and ordered an Ommegang Rare Vos.  Not bad, totally drinkable… honestly I don’t remember it too well.  I really have to start taking notes again.    After a couple of innings, I decided I was hungry and ordered an avocado salad.  [...]

Pizza Classica

What do any normal people do after going just about stir-crazy while being forced to stay inside by Hurricane Irene for two straight days?  They eat pizza and go bowling, of course, and so that’s what Beer Boor and I did the Monday after Hurricane Irene came, left our two neighborhoods untouched (but messed up plenty of other places, unfortunately), and disappeared.  Our first stop was Pizza Classica, sitting snug inside a large shopping center anchored by Stop&Shop.  A reader recommended this place to me a few months back, though I couldn’t remember what was recommended.  I just walked in, [...]

Oko

A while back, I bought a Groupon for Oko because it’s in my neighborhood, and because I didn’t realize no one I know likes frozen yogurt.  Okay, that’s not true.  Just the people I would share something like this with, no one wanted any.  So… fine.  But the last day was coming around, so I decided to walk over and use the Groupon… and pray that they had other items besides just froyo, because I wasn’t sure I could or wanted to eat $10 worth of froyo.  When I got there – drenched in sweat from the horrible hot and [...]

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