Perfect Team Corporation Restaurant

This 2nd floor dim sum spot shines with its attentive service and excellent quality. Its also very inexpensive. A good way to judge a dim sum place is how well they make their shu mai, and theirs was truly exceptional. However, what they had in quality, they were lacking in variety. The ladies did not bring around very many different dim sum carts. I am quite jealous of the reviewers who mentioned snails being served. Perhaps it was a slow day; it was not a weekend.


13659 37th Ave

Kyedong Fried Chicken

I love coming here for a take out order (ready in 20 minutes) which gives me some time to head across the street to Han Yan Market to pick up fresh kimchee and exploit the sample ladies.

The smell of the chicken on the ride back home is unbearable and guilty of causing excessive salivation.
I love the soy garlic chicken, I dont think the spicy is as good.
It comes with a soda and pickled turnips.
This chicken does not even need to be piping hot and fresh to be good, in fact I enjoy the cold leftovers the next morning.
Its juicy and packed w flavor.

The little restaurant has cheap and good beers on tap, they sell sojou and eventually, when the machine ever works, they will serve frozen yogurt(plain and green tea). What more could you need?


150-54 Northern Blvd

123 Burger Shot Beer

5 stars ***** The $1 sliders are extremely delicious and over 9,000 times better than White Castle (which I recently tried for the first time)
2 stars ** The $2 shots are not strong at all, but whatever, they are 2 dollars
4 stars **** The $3 come in smaller-ish glasses but are still worth it bc they serve decent beer
3 stars *** The little boy shorts that the waitresses wear can sometimes be cute, and other times not so flattering
4 stars**** The awesome fries, sweet potato or waffle

Weeknights, when you can get decent service and a table, are usually more fun. No hat policy is very annoying. There is one bathroom upstairs, but two downstairs. People dress up, people dress down- its all good. They serve beer columns but the overall value is not worth it when compared to the $3 beer, worth it if very large quantities of beer at one time amuse you.


738 10th Ave

Home on 8th

I don't get it. Honestly, nothing special here. The lunch specials are fairly priced, but you could do better. The quality was decent but the food was no where near memorable. I ordered the garlic chicken. It was listed as spicy, but wasn't, and did not taste very much like garlic. The fried rice had an off taste to it and the egg drop soup lacked flavor. At least the delivery process was easy. I feel bad if this is what vegans and vegetarians think is terrific. I want to give it another chance, maybe another dish would be better?


391 8th Ave

Le Cirque: Ladies who lunch

We totally cheaped it up and didn't order anything extra with our restaurant week lunch and they still treated us respectfully. The space is just a teeny tiny almost a smidge bit tacky... I do love that the gents must wear jackets, I wore one too just for fun. Its not stuffy, its classy.
The sour dough-ish bread is great. The shrimp appetizer was a bit salty, but I enjoyed the match with carrots. Even though I CANNOT eat grapefruit (vom vom vom), I chose the scallop with hazelnut and grapefruit and pushed the bitter nastiness aside. I really enjoyed the dill, hazelnut, and sunchoke combo. The scallops were pretty good. The creme brulee had the perfect amount of sweetness, but it really could have been warmer. I liked my friends chocolate cake and tart sorbet. I think restaurant week is a great time to go, just so you can say you have been. I left satisfied and more full that I thought I would be.

151 E 58th St

Hagi

I was planning on putting our names down and going to Sapporo to wait but we got a table right away on a Friday night at 8:30, I was so not expecting that. I'm sure if we were more than 2 people that would not have been the case.
We had a blast here! Do not order the vinegar drinks, I have no idea why I did, it tasted like vinegar... The plum sour is delish though.
The deep fried octopus special was a favorite, as was the fatty pork. Eggplant was not impressive and we tried many skewers that were just ok. I tried uni for the first time and enjoyed it.
Somehow I ended up spending a lot more than I intended.
Food is 3 stars but the variety, experience, and cheap drinks are more like 4.
I want to go back to drink more and order differently.


152 W 49th St

Perbacco: cheese creme brulee dream

The place is so cute I felt cuter by being there. The tiny place was packed, but my party of 2 was able to get a seat quickly, maybe due to the snowy night. The place is packed; your neighbors will hear your coversations. We learned the couple next to us requested their dishes without cheese and wanted to order a bottle of Port- weirdddooos.

I came for the Parmesan creme brulee and was not disappointed. It really was a beautiful thing with the intensely cheesey flavor, burnt cheese top, and balsamic reduction to balance it all.
I enjoyed the semolina gnochi and fried sage leaves, although the accompanying lamb ragu was not that special. The portion size and price was very fair. The menu does a great job at offering main dishes that range from very affordable ($14) to more expensive. The menu is less friendly for the calorie minded, as my dining companion noted. Service was attentive and never pushy.

234 E 4th Street