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Jules Bistro |
Excellent |
Charming French bistro with live Jazz. I've eaten here twice, and both times the service has been helpful and friendly and the food is excellent.
This is French bistro like you might find in Paris, with Charcuterie plates, and where the Maitre'd has to pull out the table so you can get in to sit down. So don't expect fancy French Haute Cuisine. Instead, you get wonderful fish, scallops, and steak.
Appetizers and salads $6-9, entrees $14-23, deserts $3-5. (2005-09-11)
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La Paella Tapas Bar |
Good |
The restaurant is rustic with brick, tile, wood tables. Check out the ceiling: hundreds of bundles of dried (or drying) roses, going up and down the beams. Cool!We had four tapas: Pulpo Gallega (poor, octopus was not fresh), saffron rice (with peas, good), pepers with goat cheese (excellent, recommended), and lamb skewers (fair, overcooked). Also, it's expensive for most East Villagers. Four Tapas plus sangria and coke for two cost 50$.
[Went back a second time, had the early bird special - Tilapia with saffron rice and salad - fish nicely prepared, but sauce not wonderful (too vinegary)]
Tapas $6-12, soup $6-8, salads $7-10, paella $30-38 (for two), deserts $7-8. (2005-09-12)
Telephone Bar and Grill |
Fair |
This is British food. Need I say more?
Seriously, the Telephone Bar & Grill has become something of a default place for large birthday events. The last one we had there was this night and we probably had 30 at our table. Yes, that was us. Sorry.
The food is reliable and is in the "Bennigans" or "TGI Friday's" category - but with a British flair (e.g. stilton cheese, shepherds pie, ploughman's lunch). I had the tarragon tuna melt which was okay, except the tuna was a bit dry, the fries over-greasy, and salad had no dressing. People around me had the Turkey Burger, the Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie, and a regular Telephone burger. Probably we ordered everything on the menu at that table. Nobody really had anything good or bad to say about the food. Oh, also ordered the gourmet nachos which were very good, nice and crispy (and the waiter very nicely put the "chile con carne" on the side when asked, recommended).
But the atmosphere is fun, with the English telephone booths at the front, and the ye olde style paintings around the bar (notice there's a telephone booth in every painting), and the wonderfully large bar.
So my recommendation is this: If you want a drink and some simple finger food, go to the Telephone Bar and Grill.
Appetizers and salads ($8-12), Sandwiches ($10-12), Entrees ($12-20). (2006-01-17)
The Bourgeois Pig |
Relaxed |
Cozy french coffeshop with overstuffed chairs and small marble tables with coffee, cheese plates, wine, fondue, and bruchetta. Excellent for intimate conversations and more fun than sterile Starbucks.
But avoid the fondue. The fondue pot is a simple two-tier ceramic pot with not enough BTU's to properly melt the ingredients (they try and compensate with garlic butter, but it's just not the same).
Fondue ($18), wine ($7-10), coffee, cheese plates. (2006-02-11)
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Klimat |
Good |
Otherwise, the food was good: Fries, pierogies, pork loin, beats - good hearty Polish food in a beer-garden atmosphere. Entree's 10-15$. Drinks 8-10$. (2008-01-19)
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