Has anyone been there on amsterdam and 111? It is the best of the best for fine pastry and cafe....columbia intelligentsia.
If anyone goes there i will be willing to send them money to send me a box load of their pastries.
If anyone goes there i will be willing to send them money to send me a box load of their pastries.
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I grew up living around the corner from there Mary Anne.
You are right they are the best but half the fun is the sidewalk café in spring and sipping espresso with that tiramisu. I haven't been back in two years but the people's garden was still there on the other corner of 111st as well as the Chinese restaurant next door.
You forgot the view of the statue of in the Childrens Garden across the street on the grounds of the Cathedral of St. John of the Divine. Yep the same one where Paul Winter plays the Winter Solstice Concert every year and jsut a few days ago.
It is pretty hard to send all the ambience with the package.
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I used to go there with my college friends all the time. Sometimes we'd have fake discussions using Hungarian accents and talking about Rosa and the polizi, just to make it sound like we were dissidents in Hungary (this was in the 70s, so the Cold War was still on). There used to be a Hungarian restaurant next door, the Green Tree, which had huge portions for student-sized prices.
I live on 72nd Street, so I could go up there if you really want Mary Anne. You just have to live in America, we can't send food overseas. (Msg me if you do) -
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The Green Tree is now that Chinese restaurant I mentioned.
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I remember it was an arab man lebanese maybe who was an artist. He saved all the hungarian recipes as they were and covered everything with his drawings. Even the village cant compare with the atmosphere there. Tirimisu is alwys to die for but I miss their gorgeous strudels too...the apple and the one made with poppy seed...and i just dont have names to describe all the others...balls of sweet cake filled with creame cafe or bruele or almond or chocolate....all make with real butter...and the coffee just terific.
I know they were 'gentrifying ' the area when i left. Have they done so to amsterdam...new shops and such...new high rises....i think some of those high rises must be nice...probobly cost a fortune....
i also remember an old chinese restaurant on bway called 'the new moon' but i know shushi restaurants and hunan have moved in. There was also an arab dive serving hummus and baba ganouch...good bookstores too. The craziest people there were the professors!
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