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Tacobite (South 4th and Rodney, Wburg) - This was a dark horse, but it’s quickly become one of my favorites.  The burrito itself was pretty good - I forget what I got, but I remember thinking it was tasty - but more importantly it came with free chips and a delicious, spicy salsa.  (By the [...]

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Damn straight.  Right here in Williamsburg.  That’s cheap as hell.  I grilled one up for dinner, and who knows, maybe I’ll have the other one for breakfast.
P.S. Grilling is the only form of transferring heat to food I currently possess, which is sort of a mixed bag.

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Juxtaposition 1:
|| Elote Mexican Restaurant || My Apartment || Rocio’s Mexican Bakery ||
Above is a rough schematic of my block.  To the left of my apartment we have Elote, a restaurant/bar that serves expensive-ish Mexican food in a yuppified context, as well as decent sangria.  It is filled with non-Mexicans.
To the right of my apartment [...]

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Tonight I had dinner at Fiore, which was both tasty and frustrating.
Tasty: the bucatini amatriciana was rich and flavorful, with the hearty guanciale - kinda like pancetta - serving to thicken up the sauce, making it more suited to the heavy and hollow bucatini. The tiramisu was unbelievably good all things considered; for a [...]

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Just like a burrito, I feel stuffed. I’ve sampled three local burritos in the past five days, and not to spill the beans, but I’ll be honest: they were all just okay.
Taco Chulo - The gimmick here is that you can have your burrito stuffed with potatoes instead of rice. Great. My carnitas burrito [...]

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A new feature, now that I live in a neighborhood where going to bars doesn’t also mean driving home.
1) Huckleberry, Grand @ Lorimer, Williamsburg.  Excellent place with solid draughts.  Had a pint of Ommegang for six bucks, sat outside on the pretty patio.  Wasn’t too full on a Tuesday night - is this place a [...]

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