Times Food Section

Most exciting things in the Wednesday NY Times food section:

1. Coffee!
2. Cheap food!
3. Honey Cakes! What are Honey Cakes?
4. Steak House!

1. The paper of record published an exhaustive and comprehensive review of coffee houses in NYC. It is especially interesting to read about beans being roasted in Greenpoint, and plans for more coffee beans to be roasted in and around Brooklyn. Cafe Grumpy in Park Slope recieves a star review. They are very serious about their coffee over on 7th Ave. No laptops are allowed and I believe even sitting is discouraged. Grab your coffee and get out. The coffee is of course delicious and strong. This cannot stop me from accidentally pronouncing it as Caf-ay Grump-ay everytime I say it aloud.
The article also cites Cafe Pedlar from the Frankie's guys in Cobble Hill. I have yet to check it, which is shameful because it is right down the street. Writing this is making me embarassed of my Dunkin' Donuts cup to my left.

2. Cheap food in LES? WHA?? No big surprise here, but the review of Carteles on East 6th Street makes me yearn for some chicken and yuca sancocho. And I don't even really know what it is.

3. What are honey cakes? At this point, I don't care. I just want to eat the chocolate covered one with marshmallows. Yum.

4. Review of Strip House. Steak is not really my thing, as I tend to vear to more vegetarian fare. However, the review does have it's own mouth-watering moments. Most of them refer to the decor and atmosphere. Mainly, it sounds like a pretty cool place. Anywhere with a signed photo of Thurgood Marshall tucked into the bar area is cool with me. The steaks and scrumptious sides sounds deliciously fatty. With steakhouse prices it may not be the best deal in town, but I certainly would recommend it to meat-lovers on a trip to NY based on this two-starred review (which may be as high as Sifton has gone in his relatively new role).