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How can you add a new place? If you want to avoid spam you could maybe ask for a Yelp link or something which you could scrape. There's plenty of really good r
by owenversteeg 3y ago
How can you add a new place? If you want to avoid spam you could maybe ask for a Yelp link or something which you could scrape.
There's plenty of really good restaurants which I've loved and have closed, from glitzy cities to war zones, but one fairly normal place sticks out in my mind - a sloppy joe shack off the side of interstate 87 north of NYC in the corner of a Yonkers parking lot. The genre of classic American places where you can find ridiculous portions of very unhealthy food executed perfectly is rapidly dying out and anywhere around NYC it is practically extinct, but this place did it perfectly. My God, what could be more American than a sloppy joe shack? Eight dollars cash got you a quantity of meat, homemade french fries and toppings sufficient to feed a midsized European city for three months, and it was all done so well - brioche bun, good meat, very good homemade fries, shoved into a large cardboard box.
It's funny, because ten or twenty years ago the list of unhealthy all-American-huge-portions-done-right was a mile long wherever you'd go. You didn't even have to check the internet, you could just drive around until you found the right mix of cars outside and you'd know. Now the genre is as good as dead in large parts of the country and dying in the rest. You go into a diner and find that it's under new management by skinny hipsters and you just want to cry. It's the same ultra-processed-bullshit but now it's been rearranged by some jackoff without taste buds and downsized to fit in a teacup. I eat healthy, sane portions at home, I'm here for a reason, just give me a big pile of red-blooded-American-garbage-god-Damn-it!
If anyone else knows of any other true-American places in or near NYC, let me know :)
- gregsadetsky 3y agoinfo@restaurants.rip to add a new place right now, but I’ll definitely add a “submit” form today, thank you! I’m also in NYC, so I’d love to hear what you find.
- owenversteeg 3y agoThanks, I'll add it later then! and yes, if I find anything, I'll send an email, but unfortunately I'm not optimistic. We'll see if HN knows anything...
- anjel 3y agoThe much loved Shopsin's was one of a kind not just for the food but also its gruff but lovable chef Kenny Shopsin. Documentary: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0390109/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0390109/ Profiled by Calvin Trillin in the New Yorker: https://web.archive.org/web/20230313065345/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/04/15/dont-mention-it https://web.archive.org/web/20230313065345/https://www.newyo... Unique Menu rules: https://www.kottke.org/04/08/shopsins-menu https://www.kottke.org/04/08/shopsins-menu
- scrozier 3y agoShopsin's is not closed! They are now at Essex Market (Essex and Delancey, in the Lower East Side). Next building over from me. I think some of Kenny's offspring took it over (but not sure of that). Not quite as fun as the old place, but still a pretty quirky menu.