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While Junior's did not make the final cut in the Times cheesecake article this week, the Times dining section acknowledged Brooklyn mainstay last weekend:
So it's not the Four Seasons. Nor even an Odeon, which more than two decades into its run has become a kind of La Coupole for the downtown Manhattan set. It's not even a Katz's, with its thin-sliced deli meats and goofy Greatest Generation charm. Those are all good places to eat. Junior's isn't really. Junior's is something else entirely, although something great: a window into the Brooklyn of memory and the Brooklyn of now, where there is no problem that cannot be solved by a dill pickle, a hot twin roll with soft butter, a freshener on your cup of coffee, a fat slice of cheesecake, a smile...Because there are truths in this world, and here is one of them: An open-faced white-meat turkey sandwich, smothered in gravy, extra cranberry sauce, with relatively indeterminate steamed vegetables on the side, can be a glorious meal, especially taken with friends as waiters gather round to sing.
And that's all anyone wants - to find the truth. Whether it's from the sugary high of a cupcake, or the sweet richness of ribs, or briny delight of oysters, a food truth means a lot. [There's also a great anecdote to start Sam Sifton's article, about a young man looking for his mother. Read it.]
Junior's is at 386 Flatbush Avenue Extension (at DeKalb), in Brooklyn.
rachelle went to Katz's.
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It just goes to show the power of the Times...my girlfriend and I tried (twice!)to sample the cheesecake at Two Little Red Hens (one of the winners--- http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/36253236?cslink=search_name_noncust&ulink=search__searchslot1_1__0_profile_148_1 )and they were sold out by 10 AM. Excellent chocolate chunk and ginger spice cookies, though. You could spend a week sampling everything in their display case. And who says the Upper East Side is a desert?
why doesn't it mention that their cheesecake is brick-like?
tien do you still have that photo of me and that enormous piece of cheesecake from juniors when we went there after having hotpot? i dont think i ever saw how it turned out.
Is the UES Two Little Red Hens the original? I always thought the Park Slope outlet was.
More important: can you get a Brooklyn blackout cupcake in Manhattan?
i believe i have it somewhere...you want it up here on gothamist? it didn't turn out that great, i don't think. but if you remind me when i'm home, i can send it to you. gotta love communicating to people over gothamist when you have their email, aim, and phone number.
heh.. just email it to me. there are enough public photos of me making the "crazy eating face" out there already.
I recently ate at Junior's for the first time. Junior's is funk. Ask for Levi...he will hook you up with extra corn bread and cole slaw. Substitute regular french fries for the sweet potatoe fries.
I don't know if the 2LRH on the UES is the original, but it's the one referenced in the Times's article on cheesecake.
Overheard yesterday...
Middle-aged UES Woman: Do you have any slices of cheesecake?
2LRH Staffer: No, we're sold out again.
Middle-aged UES Woman: Really?!? What time do I need to be here to get one?
2LRH Staffer: Oh,sometime after 8, before 10
Middle-aged UES Woman: (Muttering on the way out the door) Well, you just should bake more!!!
All this talk of cheesecake. I may have to make one on Sunday. Anyone want a slice?
I sound like a broken record, but no cheesecake compares to S&S in the Bronx. I am glad that the Manhattan snobs at NYT have no idea what real good Jewish cheesecake tastes like. (By the way, who knew that Court St in Carroll Gardens could get so much play in the Times? Ever since Smith St, people won't leave that area alone...Jeez...)
not a big fan of Juniors