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Here’s a post from nyc.food by Matthew Crosby on a few Park Slope restaurants:

From: Matthew Crosby (mcrosby@tinho.net)
Subject: Re: park slope restaurants
Newsgroups: nyc.food
Date: 2003-01-08 07:40:07 PST

In article (efd191a.0212301457.a8f2015@posting.google.com),
PIN (irene-googlenewsgroups@cheetahmail.com) wrote:
>There are very few postings on Park Slope restaurants here, and
>understandibly so. Most are way below average… really disappointing
>for such a well to do neighborhood. Much to my excitement, DH and I
>had the pleasure to find a great little place right off 7th Ave. on
>9th Street (southeast corner). It’s called the Minnow and specialized

I’ve heard good things about this place, and after your recommendation will definately try it.

Anyway, while I agree that the majority of 7th Ave restaurants are mediocre, if you are willing to walk down to 5th the scene is MUCH better.

Some places I like:

Rosewater (Union & 6th). Nominally middle eastern but in practice fairly international, I think this is one of the most underrated places on the slope. They use very fresh produce from the greenmarket, do interesting recipies and on nice summer days one can sit outside and enjoy the really very very good food.

Al Di La (5th and Garfield). I’ve always found New York to be suprisingly bad in the Italian department. Too many mediocre psuedo-southern Italian places serving gloppy red sauce based dishes to the sort of person who thinks that lots of food means a good restaurant. This place really stands out. It’s Northern Italian (Venetian), and the food is among the best northern Italian I’ve had in the city. Lots of real Italian stuff like Bagna Cauda that you don’t see all that often, and a small but very well selected and reasonably priced wine list.

Blue Ribbon. (5th and I think 1st) Basically identical to the Blue Ribbon in Manhattan. Now Park Slopers can get a good meal at 3 AM too!

Thali Thai. (On 5th down by I think Carroll). Recently opened, I have a lot of hope for this. Again, much more sophisticated Thai then the usual suspects (and again, NY doesn’t do so well at Thai generally), this place is run by an Australian, so there is a really really great Australian wine list. Much more interesting use of flavours and interesting dishes then the usual watered down curries and Pad Thais that one gets at the typical thai places.

Bistro St Marks (St Marks and Flatbush) has been talked about many times here so I won’t bring it up again, but it’s worth trying. I’ve found them to sometimes not live up to their promise, but definately a decent place.

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