Talde Crew | Recommendations - Find. Eat. Drink.
Talde, Brooklyn, NY, New York, Pork Slope, Thistle Hill, David Missoni, Dave Missoni, Bartender John Bush, Chef Dale Talde, Restaurateur, Where to eat, Where to drink, where to shop, Brooklyn, New York, NYC, Manhattan, Food, Wine, Stores, Cheese, Butcher, Meat, Restaurants, Bars, Dive Bars
BROOKLYN BREAD CAFE
384 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.788.7809
Park Slope
Bakery
Find | Food & Wine stores - Brooklyn, NY
All of our bread at Thistle Hill comes from Dean at Brooklyn Bread. They make amazing Pullman loaves and a very traditional French-style baguette that we use for crostini and bread with our mussels.
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PARK SLOPE SEAFOOD
215 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.832.7638
Park Slope
Seafood Store
Everything is incredibly fresh. They have really well-chosen, seasonal “what you should be eating fish” and great prices. And it's one of the only seafood markets that I've ever been in that doesn't smell like a seafood market!
Who
Chef Dale Talde, restaurateur David Massoni and bartender John Bush are the co-owners of Talde and Pork Slope in Brooklyn, NY. Massoni and Bush also own Thistle Hill in Brooklyn.
Why
Massoni is a twenty year veteran in the restaurant industry, having been on the front lines at various Batali/Bastianich restaurants, Jason Denton’s ‘inoteca and his own Diablo Royale before opening Thistle Hill.
Talde has worked with acclaimed chef Masaharu Morimoto, was previously chef de cuisine at Buddakan, appeared as a “Top Chef” contestant on Bravo TV and opened Talde in 2012.
From Mad Dog in the Fog, and Club Deluxe in San Francisco to 2A, Niagara Bar, and Otto Pizzeria e Enoteca in New York, Bush honed his craft behind the stick, plus worked as a photographer and toured with top bands like Green Day and The Foo Fighters.
The Talde Crew | Recommendations
August 13, 2012
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Talde & Pork Slope - Brooklyn, NY
SLOPE CELLARS
436 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.369.7307
Park Slope
Wine Store
I think it’s the best in all of Park Slope. The people who work there are really picky about what's on the shelves and they're incredibly passionate about every single bottle that they have in there. They walk you through the store and ask ‘What are you looking for? What are you going to eat tonight? Do you want it to be Old World? Do you want it to be New World?’ They basically work the wine store like an awesome sommelier in a restaurant with every customer that comes in.
THE PLOUGHMAN
Park Slope
Cheese Shop
They've got a great cheese selection. Alice, who owns it, is really trying to focus on as many local cheeses as possible. She has a good international variety, as well.
UNION MARKET
Park Slope
402-404 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.499.4026
Park Slope
754-756 Union Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.230.5152
Cobble Hill / Carroll Gardens
288 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
T: 718.709.5100
Greenwich Village
240 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10009
Multiple Locations
Grocery
I think Union Market does an amazing job. They really make a point of trying to stock their shelves with local products. They've got pies from Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies in Red Hook and they've got breads from local bakeries and they highlight sauces from different chefs. It has a clean, utilitarian European feel about it.
UNITED MEAT MARKET
219 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 718.768.7227
Windsor Terrace
Butcher Shop
It's my “go to” place for any kind of meat. Classic old Italian-owned butcher shop and everybody I know in the neighborhood remembers it as always being there. They've got dry goods on the front shelves, like pasta sauces, olive oils and salts. There are always like four or five guys behind the counter ready to jump up and help you with whatever you want and they’ll cut to order.
APPLEWOOD
Park Slope
American
Eat | Restaurants - Brooklyn, NY
It’s New American with a strong European and French background, all local fish coming out of the East Coast waters. It's the kind of menu with many of the food that you eat every day. Really nice, beautiful salads and nothing is overdone.
Prospect Heights
Italian / Pizza
Franny’s is one of my favorite restaurants and man, that place is absolutely killing it! The chicken liver pasta is like this chicken liver ragu. It’s a really great pasta, perfectly al dente, it almost tastes like chopped liver. Fantastic with nice acidity. It’s very savory and they put a ton of cheese on it. They have a meatball pizza which is amazing. They’re doing the farm to the table right, sourcing out local, quality ingredients. But they’re not just buying arugula from somebody because it’s local, they’re buying the best they can get and it just happens to be local.
OSTERIA MORINI
Soho
Italian
Eat | Restaurants - New York, NY
I can sit at the bar and have great pasta or I can really sit in the dining room and have like every grilled piece of meat that fits in their wood burning grill.
RESTAURANT JEAN GEORGES
Upper West Side
French
It’s my favorite fine dining restaurant in the city and it’s still affordable. The food is modern and progressive and the dining room is one of the best dining rooms in the city. You really feel like you’re in New York City when you’re there.
TERTULIA
West Village
Spanish
If you’ve ever been to Spain, you’ll realize he nailed it. It smells like a restaurant in the Basque Country. I really like the Arroz a La Plancha with escargot. They do gambas with the head on, the tail on, the whole nine yards. It’s a simple as it gets, but it’s all so well done.
YAKITORI TAISHO
5 Saint Marks Place, New York, NY 10003
T: 212.228.5086
East Village
Japanese
It’s bar food, an izakaya and it’s open until 4 am. I started going there after work when I was a sous chef at Morimoto. I would bring all the line cooks there and and we would just order the entire f...n' menu and pitchers of beer. Whole bill for like seven people would be $200 and we’d been eating our faces off. I like to get the skewered yakitori chicken skin, chicken meatballs, these weird little Berkshire sausages and I always get the Ika Yaki (grilled squid).
BEER TABLE
Park Slope
Bar
Drink | Bars - Brooklyn, NY
It’s amazing, but you are paying wine bottle prices for bottles of beer. They have beers I've never heard of. They do their research, but in a good way. They're not nerdy, big fat guys with suspenders and checkered shirts. They're not pretentious at all. They just really love beer.
BOURGEOIS PIG
Carroll Gardens
Bar
It's a totally random, bizarre place, so bizarre that I like it. It looks like an Iraqi palace inside with the most cheap, gaudy, weird furniture in the world and the only food you can get is fondue.
HIGH DIVE
Park Slope
Bar
It's a dive bar. Cheap beers, cheap shots, and no social order to the crowd. You'll see young people in there and you'll see old people in there. Never too crowded or too loud, and never completely empty. Great windows and you can sit outside and watch people walk by.
SEA WITCH
703 5th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215
T: 347.227.7166
Sunset Park
Bar
My favorite place right now is Sea Witch on Tuesday nights. I work until midnight and I go there until 4 in the morning. There is a bartender named Tim Malloy, who is the epitome of the best bartender in the world, big Irish guy. It’s what I always say about myself that makes me a good bartender -- I'm Irish and I have the gift of gab and Mr. Malloy has the gift of gab. He’s hilarious. You could tell that bartenders built it, because all of the little nuances. The bar is beautiful and they’ve got great selection of beer and booze.
BLACK AND WHITE
86 East 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
T: 212.253.0246
East Village
Bar
Drink | Bars - New York, NY
It's red and black, just a dark, good-sized bar, nice booths and they’ve got great bartenders. You get a lot of musicians. Pretty much any band that ever played at Roseland went to Black and White afterwards. You get a lot of actors. It sometimes gets crazy, but never too crazy.
JIMMY’S CORNER
140 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
T: 212.221.9519
Midtown West
Dive Bar
Jimmy's Corner in Times Square is probably the best bar in New York City.
It's owned by Jimmy, who was Muhammad Ali’s corner man. The old story goes that Muhammad Ali gave him $50,000 in 1972 to open a bar near the Garden and that's what he opened. And it's floor to ceiling boxing memorabilia throughout the whole place. Jimmy is still there and there will be fighters in there sometimes, and you could still get an Amstel Light for $3.
MAX FISH
178 Ludlow Street, New York, NY 10002
Lower East Side
Bar
It’s my favorite bar in New York and I’ve been going there forever. However, it's just gotten dramatically younger. You’d drink dollar Budweisers and there were junkies in the back and I would just sit in the window and it was cool. Pork Slope is The Commodore meets Max Fish.
