Guacamole to Taste

Piramide Mexican Restaurant
499 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY
718-499-0002

If you in the mood for a Mexican Restaurant, but want more than a workers luncheonette, Piramide is the place.
Bright and clean, there a wide variety of dishes, even fish dishes. You know you are in a special place when you order guacamole and the waiter will prepare it to taste in front of you. (bland or omg hot). The avocados are specially flown in from Mexico for that authentic taste.
Dinner is surprisingly inexpensive practically all the entrees are less than $ 20 and drinks are often on sale. There is a Sunday brunch for $ 9.95 that is a special treat.

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An English Country House in the City

656 Marlborough Road
Brooklyn, NY

Be transported to the English Utopia Movement with this Classic American Foursquare complete with English Ivy on an old brick retaining wall.

This single family house is large but not overwehlming. Perfectly located, near Newkirk Plaza, on a cul de sac, with security cameras and easy parking A wonderful front yard with porch and a large backyard to grow your vegetables
$779,000

Daniel Shapiro Broker, Ditmas Estates LLC
www.ditmasestates.com

917 912 8669

For a picture see http://www.danshapirorealestate.net/New_York_City/New_York/Homes/Ditmas_Park/Agent/Listing_9198366.html

A Good Borek

DJERDAN BOREK
2283 65 StreetBrooklyn, NY 11204

(718) 484-3180

This Albanian dinner (Yes, I said Albanian) looks a luncheonette. It is almost as hard to find as the country, itself being on a side street and an incorrect address on the menu. There are no hamburgers here. Instead plan to have Boreks, (similar to middle eastern Borekas ), that is a pastry that is stuffed with spinach or meat or cheese. The pastry is light and close to a waffle batter.
That’s it! Boreks make up almost the entire menu except for some wonderful desserts. A typical dessert is Baklava swimming in honey and/or Karo sauce or cake or pastry that flavored in the same way.
Boreks cost about $4 each and two Boreks are more that you can eat

for more see www.Ditmasestates.com

Noodletown is not the place you want to take a date

Noodletown
28 Bowery
New York, NY 10013

212) 349-0923

After midnight and after a show or movie, when most if not all of the food places in Chinatown, NYC have closed down, there is Noodletown on the Corner of Bowery and Bayard Streets
The atmosphere at noodletown is Chinese luncheonette when it was new and it is not new now. There is no maitre d’, cooked ducks and pigs hang in the window. Soup is scooped out unceremoniously in front everyone. The waiters are constantly busy and either do not have the time or the English to greet you and certainly not to hold your chair.
What noodletown does have is good home-style Chinese food. They go through great quantities of duck and the duck comes cut up with crispy skin and most of the fat gone. The Chinese broccoli is very fresh and steaming hot and actually cut so that even a Westerner can eat it with chop sticks. All the other dishes seem to have the same attention to detail that makes a meal very welcomed.
Like I said don’t take a date to Noodletown unless you want to impress them with your ability to find good simple Chinese food.

for more see www.ditmasestates.com

English Country House in NYC

This house is large but not overwehlming. Perfectly located, near Newkirk Plaza, on a cul de sac, with security cameras and easy parking
Be transported to the English Utopia Movement with this Classic American Foursquare complete with English Ivy on an old brick retaining wall. A wonderful front yard with porch and a large backyard to grow your vegetables.
Five bedrooms, 2 baths, full hospitality suite
asking price $ 779,000