Cevabdzinica Sarajevo

    Today me and my family went to Cevabdzinica Sarajevo, an awesome Bosnian restaurant, after going to the awesome American Museum of the Moving Image.  The restaurant is on 37-18 34th ave. Astoria NY 11103.  When you walk in, you will first notice the window shaped mosaics and the 2 flags and 2 soccer jerseys.  When you walk in, you will hear a foreign language saying something on the T.V.  The next you will notice is the many newspaper articles about stuff.  The biggest one is about the owners.  

     We got some mind-blowing food.  We got Mijesano Meso, which is mixed meat for 2.  Which is kinda self explanatory, "mixed meat" means well... very assorted meat and "for 2" means there is a lot of mixed meat.  The meats include cow uh.... uh..... heart.  It is very chewy and very tasty if you don't know it's heart.  It also includes kidney, which has a sweet after taste, which also is beef.  And the last beef product is sweet bread, which I sadly didn't try.  So sorry.  There are 3 other meats.  2 tasty types of lamb sausages (she told us the sausage is a secret recipe), and some very good pieces of chicken.

        We also got Beef Stew also known as Gulas, according to the menu.  On the side was some of the best mashed potatoes I have ever tried.  It was all in a bowl with a sweet taste and a hint of tomato sauce.  Now let's get to the meat.  The meat was very good and very tender.

     The last thing we got was a sandwich, to be exact called a Buroke.  It is a pie slice shaped sandwich where you control what goes in.  What do you want in your sandwich? You can have cheese (which we got, it's really good), meat, spinach, or potatoes.  The outside is very flaky, I must say.

     So I really hope you go to that museum and this restaurant.  They are really stupendous, I must say.

Liebman's deli

  Today me and my family went to Liebman's, located at  552 W 235th St in the Bronx.  It is a really good deli.  We got a lot of very tasty food. When you walk in you see a showcase with the meat.  Like at Subway( the sandwich shop not the train).  You also see there is a mirror one the side.  You sit in booths.  Above the booths there are pendant lighting, a semi circle with a light in the middle.  Me and my family sat by a painting called    "Shabbotshalom".  The painting was of a fancy set table.

  Let's talk about the good stuff: the food.  One of the things we got was a Beef hot dog.  Also know as Frankfurters.  It was very tasty.  It was also crisp.  We also got a potato knish.  It was a very good deep fried mashed potato.  It was a very crunchy on the outside.  We got something else with potato.  A potato pancake.  It was also very tasty and crunchy like the knish.  But still very soft inside.  We got a sandwich also, corned beef sandwich.  It was delicious.  There was a lot of beef.  My mom guessed there was about 4 inches of corned beef in it.  The beef was very good.  The meat was like dry less salty ham.  The bread was also very soft.  Now my favorite: the baked beans.  The beans are very sweet and soft.  The best part is kids get free desert.  The waiter gave me and Stella a cookie.


If you want some good food you should come here.

Del Frisco's Grille

    
     Yesterday I went to a restaurant called Del Frisco's Grille at 50 Rockefeller plaza.  The chef was the father of one of my class mates.  The chef said at Christmas time you can see the big Christmas tree from the restaurant.  When you walk in the first thing you'll notice is the big upside down cup-shaped lamp shades. Also when you walk in you'll see a bar.  The place is rustic looking but fancy.  It was full of interesting wood.  In the back you can see a big barn door which slides and reveals a coat closet.  You could also see a wine display in the back.  In the corners there were high Booths.  That's where me and my family sat.  Next to where I sat there was a contemporary art painting.  The menu was full of funny things like instead of side dishes it was "a lil' somethin somethin" and instead of burgers it was "two fisted sandwiches".

   For appetizers we had lollipop chicken wings.  They were called that because the bottom half was scrapped and the remaining meat was made into a ball.  They were good as gold.  They were also spicy, like in the middle spicy. Probably cause of the black pepper flakes.   For the main course I had a grille prime cheeseburger.  It is a double patty cheeseburger with pickles, lettuce and a thing called sloppy sauce.  Who knows what is in it but it is really good sauce. The burger was delicious.  It is presented on a tray with a cup of fries.  The tray was really a cutting board.  At least that's what I thought it was.  That burger is very filling. 

      My dad got a lamb burger which I didn't try, my mom got something called ahi tuna tacos.  The tuna were served raw.  I also didn't try it.  The thing she got that I did try was thinly sliced brussel sprouts with bacon.  The brussel sprouts were cooked with the bacon.  The brussel sprouts were a bit crunchy.  My sister got Mac and cheese.  It was made with Gruyere cheese and garlic.  It did not taste like your average Mac and cheese, it was much much better. 

   The chef said that the most popular thing on the menu is the cheese steak egg rolls and the ahi tuna tacos.  He said the cheese steak egg rolls are his favorite.  So if you want a really good burger and you're in NYC to see the big tree, go here. 

      

San Soo Kap San

     Today me and my family went to  a Korean BBQ restaurant. We went there after visiting the Queens Museum. The address is 38-13 Union St  in Flushing, NY 11354~5522 between 38th & 39th Ave.  There are a lot of things in it. It's got window seats, a sushi bar, a TV, and when you thought it couldn't get any better  BOOM  they cook your food in front of you (if you order only stuff in the BBQ section of menu).  Of course they have vents over the tables to let the smoke and steam to go out.
     They put a bunch of condiments of the table.  This is the list: tofu, bok choy, BBQ sauce, and honey potatoes, and a bunch of other pickled and/or spicy stuff.  You can also order rice.  We got three main dishes.  Two were cooked on the grill in the middle of the table.  The two they cooked in front of us were Angus Kalbi, which is marinated beef ribs barbecued.  They were delicious.  They were so soft and juicy. The other one was called O-Ri Gui which are sliced duck meat.  They fell apart on the grill, it was just as good as the Angus Kalbi.  It was also soft and juicy.  You could make a wrap out of the lettuce, the meat and the condiments.  

The dish they did not cook in front of us was the noodles called Jap Chae.  It is stir fried noodle with sauteed beef & vegetable.  The noodles were almost see through and they were soft.  There wasn't a sauce on it, just beef and vegetables.  It tasted very plain but I loved it.  I ate like half of the giant plate that was for my family.

     So you should go to this restaurant.  They serve some of the best Korean BBQ I have ever had.                     

Bate

Yesterday me and my family went to Bate.  It is on 860 Melrose Ave. Bronx, NY 10451 by Yankee stadium.  They serve West African food, from Guinea.  The people there were really nice and explained to us what we were eating.  It is small and on a corner.  On the wall is a big picture of a rope bridge.  Right beside the picture there is a TV.  You self order at the counter next to the TV.  To drink my family shared a ginger drink which tasted like pineapple juice and it looks like orange juice.  We also had lots of water because all the food was spicy.  To eat my family got Sauce Feuille which is cassava leaves, palm oil, and lamb meat.  I did not like this.  It had a weird taste.  My mom thinks it was the palm oil. 

 Another thing we got was Sauce Clare which is Fish, carrot, and tomato sauce.  I liked this.  The fish had the same feel and texture of chicken.  The fish in the soup was whole, only the head was removed. 

 My family also got 2 bowls of rice.  The cool thing about the rice was you could pour the different sauces on it.  

The last thing my family got was Lamb Shigo which is 2 lamb shanks with acheke.  The lamb was tasty.  The acheke is like cassava cous cous.  A lamb shank looks like a mixture of a rib and a chicken leg.  

So Bate is great place eat and try new things!

Nutella bar

Yesterday me and my family went to Eataly on 23rd and 5th.  One of the restaurants was a Nutella bar.  Inside there were 3 giant shelves full of big and small Nutella containers.  Let me tell you a story now.  Once upon a time in the 1940s lived a pastry chief named Mr. Pietro Ferrero.  Since cocoa was rationed (because of World War II), he added hazelnuts which was plentiful in north-west Italy where he lived.  And they all lived happily ever after.  I got crostatina, a mini tart filled with Nutella. It was good.  To drink I had a sparkling lemonade.  My sister and my mom had Bacio Di Dama, a hazelnut cookie sandwich put together with Nutella.   After that me and my family went to a gelato store.  I got salted caramel and lemon in a waffle cone.  My sister got chocolate, and my mom got lemon.  I can not believe I am saying this but ice cream is more healthy gelato.  There are many other stores in Eataly.  They sell hand made macaroni, sea food, and other foods you can get in Italy.

PLANK

    

    Plank is an awesome sea food restaurant.  The address 1205 Howard St, Omaha, NE 68102.  I went with my cousins.

     Inside there is a big TV on the wall.  An awesome skeleton of a big wooden ship is hanging from the ceiling.  Above the bar is a big lobster pot holding wine bottles.  The tiles on the wall were large subway tiles.  On them were oars, like from a rowboat.  Over head was the pipes and there is a open kitchen.

     I tried some gumbo which my uncle ordered. Gumbo  is soup with roasted chicken, sausage, okra, and steamed rice.  The sausage in it were a little spicy.  

     I shared a fried oyster slider with my mom, I ate my half like the world was going to end. ha ha ha ha. It was between a buttered brioche bun, a bun dipped and soaked in butter a billion times.  

     I tried the prince Edward island mussels.  It is mussels sauteed with fennel, grape tomatoes, fresh basil, and white wine butter broth.  My sister and my cousin ate like there was no tomorrow. ha ha ha ha again.  

     I did not like the fish tacos because it was too spicy. My uncle said to try it with lime juice squeezed on it.  The tacos has beer battered white fish, slaw,  and pineapple.  P.S. My mom loved the fish tacos.

     We got 20 oysters from the $1 oyster happy hour idea.  It was my second time trying raw oysters.  I slurped them up like crazy.  

     I spent a lot of time peeling my first shrimp from the peel 'N' eat shrimp.  They were boiled and tossed with old bay spice. 

     I tried the Poutine. It was fries with Wisconsin white cheddar cheese curds, and braised bacon gravy.  It was not good,...............IT WAS DELICIOUS.   After I ate it I said, "Poutine, where have you been all my life?"  It was a taste of heaven.

     I really wanted to try the New England clam chowder and lots of other things on the menu but we were full.

     So if you go to Nebraska, Plank is the place to eat.

                                      

The Redhead

   

  Yesterday I went to a restaurant with my family called the Redhead.  (We went there after we went to the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum.)  The restaurant is on 13th St. off of 1st Av. in the East Village.  On one wall there was a bar and on the tables there were electric candles in the small cups (so kids don't start fires).  
     They first served us dinner rolls and sweet butter and I mean that butter was very sweet.  For starters we had fresh baked pretzels with a smoky cheese sauce.  It was delicious and has a soft texture and a salty/smoky after-kick.  Another starter was called gumbo with duck and andouille (that's sausage).  It was very appetizing.  When you eat it, the spicy broth goes down first and the duck and rice is left in your mouth.  
     The main course was buttermilk fried chicken.  The fried skin was very crunchy just how I like it.  The chicken was fit for a king. There were creamy grits on the side but I forgot to try them.
The second main dish was slow roasted pork shoulder.  I liked it because I could slurp the meat into my mouth because of the soft fat.  For sides we had Brussels sprouts cooked in duck fat vin. They were really scrumptious with pickled apples and watermelon radishes.    
     For dessert I had key lime pie tartelettes. IT WAS THE BEST DANG DESSERT EVER.  It was sweet and sour- the perfect combo.  There were three mini-pies.  First there was a crust on the bottom, which was crunchy.  Next there was the lime filling and on top there was the whipped cream.  I also had a dark chocolate pudding.  It was mouth watering.  It had rich chunky chocolate brownies in the pudding.  
     As we were leaving they gave us four unique-looking cookies.  I think they are poppy seed cookies which is not what you see every day (in a good way).  I can't wait to try them.  I'm sure they're yummy!

The Meatball Shop

     

  

     On Saturday me and my family and  Uncle Looch with Henry and Charlie went to The Meatball Shop.  The shop is on 1462 Second Ave. and there still are 3 more meatball shops.  The Meatball Shop is open at 11:30 in the morning.

     The inside walls had old pictures of people in black and white.  On the other wall is a bar and a take out counter.  There are subway tiles on the bar.  There are old meat grinder as coat hangers and door handles.  The music is usually on.  The music was old fashioned, like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.  The bathrooms were dark and lit with candles, which I thought was a little scary and creepy.

     The restaurant has a unique way to order.  You check off the meatball you want and the sauce.  The meatballs are listed vertically and the sauces are listed horizontally.  You can also check off your sides.  There are 5 balls to get.  There is spicy pork, chicken ball, veggie ball, classic beef and the daily ball.  I got a beef meatball slider with tomato sauce. For sides I got mash potatoes and rigatoni.  My dad got the daily ball which was breakfast sausage with Parmesan sauce.  My mom got spicy pork with with mushroom gravy.  I thought all of the meatballs were all delicious.  The sides were also very delicious.  I was forced to share with my sister.