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JADE EATERY & LOUNGE

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JADE EATERY & LOUNGE One Station SquareForest Hills, NY 11375(718) 793-2203I know I know. I just reviewed a Thai place. How many Thai restaurants can one poor slob go to? Well, apparently a whole lot. Look! Another new one opened up right behind you!Picking up JenX from her soon-to-be-vacant abode, we drove over to the Tudor-style, cobblestoned loveliness that is Station Square. Seriously,...

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LAND

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LAND THAI KITCHEN450 Amsterdam AvenueNew York, NY 10024(212) 501-8121It’s like this. Bro owed me $25. So I thought, “Hey, I’ll have him take me out to dinner someplace inexpensive.” Where better than the always popular Land on 82nd and Amsterdam? I'd eaten there a handful of times and knew about what it was going to cost. My next decision, driving there, was a...

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FRANKIES 457 SPUNTINO

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FRANKIES 457 SPUNTINO457 Court StreetBrooklyn, NY 11231(718) 403-0033Not so long ago, telling someone that you were going out to dinner in Brooklyn would have been met with a raised eyebrow. Brooklyn food, unless you were headed to Peter Luger or the now defunct Gage & Tollner, meant a Nathan’s hot dog or a slice of pizza from Totonno’s. And neither of those was...

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LONDON LENNIE'S

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LONDON LENNIE'S 63-88 Woodhaven Boulevard Rego Park, NY 11374 (718) 894-8084 If you’re ever traveling down Woodhaven Boulevard… and I can’t think of a reason why you would be xcept that you got lost headed home after spending a day at the mall, you’ll pass London Lennie’s, a wood paneled, old-school style seafood restaurant. London Lennie’s does not feel like New York City....

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TARTINE

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TARTINE253 W 11th StreetNew York, NY 10014(212) 229-2611There are two great things about a BYOB place. First, it’s cheaper. Restaurants typically price wine two or three times the wholesale cost. This means that the fifteen-dollar bottle of Chateau Je Ne Sais Pas you drank last week is probably going to be $30 or so when you order it with your meal. You not...

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MAGNOLIA BAKERY or BILLY’S BAKERY?

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MAGNOLIA BAKERY401 Bleecker StreetNew York, NY 10014(212) 462-2572BILLY'S BAKERY184 9th AvenueNew York, NY, 10011(212) 647-9956The Magnolia concept of bakeryhood is to create a place that makes a cake so sweet, diabetics fall down ill just from being downwind. Cupcakes are the main weapon Magnolia has in its war on Atkins. They're made fluffy and with extra sugar. Extra extra sugar. Magnolia's three major...

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DB WINE BAR & KITCHEN

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DB WINE BAR & KITCHEN 104-02 Metropolitan Avenue Forest Hills, NY 11375 (718) 261-2144 My neighborhood of Forest Hills can be divided, for all intents and purposes, into two halves. Half one is Austin Street, north of the mansion-rich Forest Hills Gardens. Austin Street is home to the subway lines, Station Square, Barnes & Noble, Ethan Allen, Banana Republic, more boutiques than you...

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I used to be a Manhattanite… actually, I still really am. I’m an expat living in the Colony of Queens. For most Manhattanites, Queens is where you wake up at three in the morning, half drunk, after passing out on the subway. You get out, mildly pissed and mostly hungry, change directions, fall asleep going the opposite direction, and hope not to wake...

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