Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
Originally Posted By: DB
In NY go to Bianca's on bleeker street , it's a secret gem in NY .

I'm sure we've discussed Bianca's before, DB. Great food. But as an aside, one bedroom condos on the far end of Bleecker are going for two million today. On the fucking Bowery! The old timers who lived in those cold water flats have to be spinning in their graves. I can barely believe it myself, and real estate is my life today.

That's why I always laugh when out-of-town posters want to know if there are still Italians living down there. My stock answer is, Only if they get off the boat with a million in cash. But if you have a million, why leave Italy in the first place?

And that's why there aren't many Italians living on the Lower East Side today. But that's enough sociology for today. You guys know I get verbal diarrhea when I talk about the gentrification of New York City lol.


Two restaurants that are fantastic and not populated with tourists are Il Cortile on Mulberry St and Joe's of Avenue U in Brooklyn. Both fantastic and old neighborhood eateries.

As Uncle Charlie used to say, "Never get into pissing matches with skunks."