KUCHEN or Kitchen on Court st in Cobble Hill

The borscht was old school and the potato pancakes were potato stick delicious on the outside and velvet on the inside. A quick snack this time before the Cobble Hill Theatre  showing of Joy.
The dumplings were helium filled chicken soup. More kuchen joy to come.

chicken dumpling soup

Latkes

Borscht

little BEET..27 street and park ave south

Melissa was right. Veggie and non veggie friendly..just friendly and elegant.

Cauliflower and pomegranate seeds

Roasted sweet potatoes

mushroom flatbread

Hamburger from another planet good

Unique vegetable :colletas (cross between kale
and sprouts

roasted onions

scallops

Rhinecliff Hotel and Market Restaurant (2 miles away in Rhinebeck

For the third time we ate Thanksgiving dinner at the wonderful Rhinecliff Hotel..turkey nut loaf and apple squash soup...and views of the passing trains and   barges on the Hudson. We ate again in Rhinebeck at The Local and again enjoyed. But new this time was the Market Restaurant in Rhinebeck and this was a joy as well. Kim and Pat and Alex joined us at the hotel for a great breakfast on a rainy morning after a beer at the not so Chinese restaurant in Rhinecliff with a good band. A hike on the edge of farmland in Rhinebeck was followed by roasted vegetable and perfectly made thin pizza at the Market Restaurant.

Pizziola as seen from market bar sttols

Brown rice bowl with roasted vegetables

from farm to table..literally

Roasted Fall bounty

WERKSTATT 509 CONEY ISLAND AVENUE

 THE BACK ROOM AT WERKSTATT WITH ITS COPPER AND GLASS SKYLIGHT AND FARM TABLE AND FRANZ JOSEF STRASSE SIGN REMIND ME OF GRANDPA PHILLIP (MEMBER OF FRANZ JOSEPH'S PERSONAL GUARD) AND OF THOMAS
BEISELL'S LAST PLACE ACROSS FROM BAM AND THE BEAUTIFUL CAFE DES ARTISTE AND ITS FANCIFUL MURALS AND ELEGANT DINING...THOMAS WAS CHEF. THE CRISPY BRUSSELS SPROUTS WITH HOT OIL AND THE PAPRIKA CHICKEN WITH ITS SMOKEY SEDUCTION REMIND ME OF EVERY WONDERFUL VIENESE OR GERMAN DINNER I HAVE HAD (TRIANGLE HOFBRAU OR GEBHARTS?). JR LIKED THE GRAPEFRUIT FLAVORED SHOFFERHOFER BEER AND I LIKED THE APPLE AND SPICE OF THE GRUNER BERGER WINE. so remind me to go again--then again,no need.

GRANDPA

Chicken schnitzel

Chicken paprika

celery root schnitzel

Brussels Sprouts

Mushrooms

Peak leaves in the Catskills and great food in Saugerties,Mt Tremper,Woodstock, and Cornwall

Every year I want to hit the peak Fall leaf season and eat at Peak-a-moose in Big Indian. No Big Indian this year but we did hit the peek. The drive was on old route 9W (218) through West Point and above the Hudson River. Glistening and orange/red. But there is always the other reason: food.   First, Painters at 266 Hudson in Cornwall..less ramshackle than their old location but still rambling . Shindig
in Woodstock was perfect for breakfast and Miss Lucy's in Saugerties would have been great especially for my veggie companion if they hadn't run out of the Veggie Tamales and if they hadn't forgotten the wine for so long that it came free . The squash Bisque ,beet salad flat bread  pizza ,Ribs all came late or cold with apologies and offers of free. Lucy's was a failed promise but I would go back. The Diamond Mill Hotel had an elegant restaurant i want to visit next time we stay at this gorgeous hotel  and the Catamount restaurant at the equally fine Emerson Hotel in Mt Tremper fed us twice brilliantly near the fireplace and Esopus Creek.

Catamount Tofu Stir Fry

Catamount pear salad

Stony Point Revolutionary War Battlefield
near West Point

View from Diamond Mills room terrace

Lucy's flat bread

Lucy's a good place and poor experience

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Lucy, "Would you like the ribs to go and free?

Lucy bread flat and delicious and cold

Shindig

A1 oatmeal at Shindig

Veggie at the fort

Philadelphia Comfort...Honey's,Amis, and Dining Car

 Diners,Drive ins, and Dives showed these chicken croquettes and I was headed to Juvenile Law Center
40th anniversary so? An hour cab drive later i opened the door to The Dining Car and these classics:

Amis on 412 13st

Tribute to a local pol to be at the diner

 Amis gave us baked pecorino with almonds and honey and scallops with squash  and apples.
...likable but not my favorites. The fresh made

Tartufo maker at Amis

Tartufo was a show stopper(to see being made)
.Honey's  Sit n Eat on 800 w 4th offers plates with eggs and potato pancakes in a 19th century former factory...their fresh made corn muffins compete with biscuits and the ham is smoky.

The diner's  apple crumb

                                         

peek into Amis 

Could be 1776

Honeys

Amis scallops

Amis cuke salad

Amis baked cheese