Details: Located at 62-29 Roosevelt Ave, Woodside, NY 11377. Official site is http://jollibeeusa.com/
Jollibee is a fast food franchise that is really popular in the Philippines. In the tri-state area, there are only two. One is in New Jersey, the other is in Woodside, NY.
Details: 2266 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101. The official site http://www.crack-shack.com/
The Crack Shack is a fried chicken place with a pretty cool outdoor space. I came here for lunch on a Monday.
Details: Located at 178 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002. Official site is http://sweetchick.com/
According to their web page, Sweet Chick is an American style restaurant with a Southern accent. They are known best for making fried chicken and waffles, so that’s what I got.
It comes with a choice of waffles of which I ordered the bacon cheddar waffles. That… was a poor choice and was kind of sickening. I don’t why, but it made me want to puke. What’s even stranger is that I barely tasted the bacon or cheddar in the waffle. I suggest you try another flavor of waffle. The fried chicken was just okay. It all cost $17.
Service was fine. The interior and ambiance were casual and fun.
Overall, the chicken and waffles at this palce were nothing special. Just get some Popeyes or Kentucky Fried Chicken if you’re in the mood for fried chicken instead.
Score: 5.5/10
Official site: http://www.delicatessennyc.com/
A really trendy place with straightforward, overpriced food. Good environment, just average food. Probably best for drinks and some snacks.
Had the lobster mac’ and cheese and the fried chicken. It was okay.
Score: 4.5/10
Official site: http://www.bluesmoke.com/location/flatiron/#location-menu
Came here for dinner.
We had the spare ribs and the fried chicken with macaroni and cheese, baked beans, and corn bread. It was all great.
It was a very large space.
Service was great.
Score: 7/10 Would come again.
Details: Located at 285 Grand Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238. Official site http://www.bcrestaurantgroup.com/marietta
I eat a lot of brunch. My friends can’t get enough of it. I don’t know if it’s because it tastes good, because it’s fun to hang out, or because being cool hipster brunch lovers feels nice. Regardless, I’ve eaten so much brunch that I’m starting to hate it.
And I can’t really blame Marietta for this. They’re a decent brunch place. Staff is friendly. Food was good. We ordered the shrimp and grits, the Marietta’s fried chicken, the basic breakfast, accompanied with some mimosas. It was all fairly tasty. However… it just wasn’t satisfying. This isn’t an attack on Marietta, but on brunch.
Brunch is overpriced. The food is basic and not creative. It’s essentially diner food, but marketed upwards toward the hipster type crowd. You can go from one brunch place to the other and it’s pretty much the same crap; breakfast food with booze. Oh some places add some small twist to their brunch menu, like adding a dollop of truffle oil, but it’s still all the same.
Herein lies the problem: brunch is really an excuse to drink in the morning, but classier. People bring their families to brunch. People bring their dates to brunch. Brunch is for hanging out and drinking. And that’s fine, but not what I look for when I eat out.
What I want is reasonably priced food in a comfortable environment. When it isn’t reasonably priced, then I want that food to be unique. The food is the star of the show. Brunch food is not unique. It’s the same derivative crap all the time. Which is amazing considering how many brunch places there are in this city and that they all are so lazy and not creative that they’ll make the same damn thing, over and over and over again. And people keep going back. Sigh. All brunch places may as well be franchisees of IHOP, except they have liquor licenses.
Score: 6.2/10 I hate brunch. It’s unsatisfying and boring. Not your fault Marietta.
Details: Official website: http://piesnthighs.com/. Located at 166 S 4th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211.
A small cozy place with… you guessed it: pies and fried chicken (thighs). They also have an assortment of donuts, standard breakfast fair (eggs, bacon, pancakes, etc.)
Overall, pretty good. The group I went with ordered the fried chicken and waffles, and some standard breakfast fair. I saw other eating the chicken biscuit sandwich and biscuits and gravy. Those seemed to be the things ordered most often. All were very good.
Also got try their donuts. I had an orange lemony one. Also good.
They also have booze, like mimosa, bloody mary (made with sake), etc. The drinks were interesting.
Score: 6/10 Good brunch place. Nothing extraordinary, but if you have a craving for deep fried, greasy, and super sweet stuff done right, then this is a great place to go.
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