Gothamist: The Hungry Cabbie Eats The Outer Boroughs: Salonike

Wish I Was In NYC

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:30:36 -0500

I would hate to have nothing better to do than troll blogs and play grammar nazi. Get a life chodes. For fucks sake! THC is awesome!

Mike

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:22:41 -0500

Banania is now \'Porchetta\' - and I concur - Salonike is a well above average diner.

Eat me

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:45:03 -0500

First, Sloane, perhaps it was edited after THC's catch, dumbass. Second, Salonike is indeed overpriced and bland as shit. Good call, Jojo Dancer. Third, why are blog comments boards full of dumbass motherfuckers?

Sloane

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:40:39 -0500

Hey Reddy, Did YOU skip a word in the first sentence. There is a "be" between "could" and "found" that makes that sentence gramatically correct. Nice try though. THC can write.

Smith Streeter

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:29:14 -0500

The Gowanus Yacht Club is anything but fine dining! It's a shithole of a bar that's fun if it's not too crowded and you're hungry for a tiny burger of questionable heritage and thirsty for cheap beer and don't mind hanging around a bunch of fratboys with backwards hats on and their bimbo girlfriends. And the bathroom is unnecessarily nasty.

Andrew J. Lederer

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:57:52 -0500

And both it and Ziad's are right by the F train and convenient as last ports of call before departing for home in another nabe.

Jojo Dancer

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:43:00 -0500

Honestly, the food is overpriced and really bland. But it's not bad for a late night fix.

reddy

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:08:55 -0500

hey satan, did you skip the first sentence? "...mostly it was just people up to no good who could found outside on Smith Street after a certain hour." what?

Andrew J. Lederer

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 12:46:17 -0500

Nice staff, in my experience, too.

SATAN

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:43:17 -0500

It's refreshing to finally read a well-written post, free (at least on first reading) of misspellings and grammar mistakes. It also reads coherently, which has often seemed too much to ask for. Mark this day (and post) in Gothamist history!

Tom

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:20:23 -0500

I live across the street from Salonike (now puzzlingly renamed "Carroll Gardens Classic Diner"), and I gotta say that they throw together a nice feed. I admit that I actually prefer low-end onion rings to the doughnut-sized monsters they have, but that's just me. Be careful when praising this place, though: Johnathan Lethem has (or used to have) a serious mad on for Salonike. I've read him complaining in interviews that new residents/yupsters prefer the 'nike to the St. Clare on Smith and Atlantic, which has been there forever. Big J, luv ya, but news: the St. Clare is a disgusting gristleburger hole that only bailbondsmen and reverse-snob Brooklyn authors can love.

LJ

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:54:52 -0500

same with Baluchie's. I have a friendly pool going on which local business will close next and turn into a real estate office or over priced shoe store.

J

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:41:40 -0500

Banania no longer exists, actually. It just re-opened as a new restaurant (don't know the name yet).

Ace

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:19:36 -0500

What's with the hat? Wheres Tony Soprano when you need him?

threetoedsloth

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:18:19 -0500

I live in Gowanus, and I am admittedly TERRIFYING.