They serve a killer burger too btw. Thanks!
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Well, when you put it that way...
Grimaldi's is all about the tourists) Next time you're in town check out Numero 28 (unfortunately the Brooklyn location closed during covid, but there are a few in Manhattan).
But yea, Brooklyn Heights is my favorite neighborhood in the world
It was a bit "tourist-trappy", and we were served the biggest pizza I've ever seen. I had to look around to see if we were on Candid Camera or something. And that was the "small" one. The 4 tourists next to us, two women each with a daughter, ordered 2 large ones, and didn't believe us when our's came and we said it was the small one...
It was good though... we managed to eat almost half of it...
In recent years, I have come to appreciate the idea (and reality) of seriously good (gourmet) burgers.They serve a killer burger too btw. Thanks!
It's fine pizza, but by no means my go-to. But everyone has their own approach to pizza, as they shouldWell, when you put it that way...
It was a bit "tourist-trappy", and we were served the biggest pizza I've ever seen. I had to look around to see if we were on Candid Camera or something. And that was the "small" one. The 4 tourists next to us, two women each with a daughter, ordered 2 large ones, and didn't believe us when our's came and we said it was the small one...
It was good though... we managed to eat almost half of it...
And I've been working on perfecting my own. Not the best picture, but boy did I nail it with this one
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Getting ready to jet-out to explore Teh Mojave . . . just a little (11.2oz) to smoothe the transition
And I've been working on perfecting my own. Not the best picture, but boy did I nail it with this one
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Takes "Tall-Boy" to new levels!
Oh, yum.And I've been working on perfecting my own. Not the best picture, but boy did I nail it with this one
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Just yum.
Do mine eyes - my bespectacled eyes - deceive me, or do I lay eyes on pickles, bacon, melted cheese (what cheese have you used may I be so bold as to enquire?) and, obviously, tucked away and buried beneath the lot, some manner of what must be a delicious burger?
I love the look of that lingering liquid at the bottom of the bun: I doubt that my capacity for restraint would be equal to the task of not devouring it before I had remembered to post an image.
Anyway, thanks for sharing - that does look absolutely mouth-watering.
I first made the acquaintance of this sublime beverage in Nairobi, some years ago, and was most impressed.Getting ready to jet-out to explore Teh Mojave . . . just a little (11.2oz) to smoothe the transition
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Do enjoy.
All correct! Black Forest bacon. If I recall correctly (this picture is not from today) — mozzarella. Also, hidden under the "hat" — caramelized onions — my latest burger achievement
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I am/will! thx!
"Back In The Day", 'Guinness' was Guinness (there can only be One) . . . sadly, Teh Stout has become Commodidized, and we are left with fractional, packetised tailings 🤷♂️
Auspiciously, I needs-be attending a 4amEST arrival to the aeroport (with an extremely vigorous day, ahead), so a proper dive-back into the stout-of-lore is best left to another story; for another day
Agreed.
Obviously, anyone from the UK or Ireland are more than familiar with the standard form of Guinness.
However, that particular version - Guinness Foreign Extra - which I had heard about as a student and blithely assumed that it was one of those legends like Nirvana, or El Dorado, - was something I had to travel to Nairobi to make the acquaintance of, and was suitably impressed.
Nowadays, my local off-licence stocks it, I am delighted to report.
Anyway, do enjoy.
Auspiciously, I needs-be attending a 4amEST arrival to the aeroport (with an extremely vigorous day, ahead), so a proper dive-back into the stout-of-lore is best left to another story; for another day
Safe travels.
Caramalised onions?All correct! Black Forest bacon. If I recall correctly (this picture is not from today) — mozzarella. Also, hidden under the "hat" — caramelized onions — my latest burger achievement
Joy.
They also work exceedingly well - indeed, are a non-negotiable necessity - when putting the appropriate trimmings together for a good burger.
Anyway, well done; that does look delicious.
A burger feels naked without caramelized onions.
Actually, it was medium-rare. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
In no way can I assume native familiarity with such things, but--I must say--FE is much more familiar to the Guinness which I enjoyed 40 years ago, than that of which is usually offered, today.
A true Meal-in-a-Bottle.
{ribeye/cob-corn/broc is the menu for tonight, so the FE is just a happy segue
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This strikes me as probably the most [add your adjective here] statements I have witnessed in '24 (and we've had a cornucopia of such this year, have we not, Sister?)
I know not of the fortitude and robustness of my Kenyan Bretheren/Kinswomen, but it strikes me odd that a person would (fully?) come to know FE in an East-Africa locale . . .
. . . is there an application open for the fly on your wall?
Actually, - and this occurred a number of years ago - truth to tell, (and precisely because it is such a great story, why not relate it?) I made the acquaintance of Guinness Foreign Extra in a cosy bar in a UN training base, where I was on a (HEAT) course prior to my deployment to Somalia (I was seconded to the EU and had been sent to Mogadishu as a political counsellor at the time).This strikes me as probably the most [add your adjective here] statements I have witnessed in '24 (and we've had a cornucopia of such this year, have we not, Sister?)
I know not of the fortitude and robustness of my Kenyan Bretheren/Kinswomen, but it strikes me odd that a person would (fully?) come to know FE in an East-Africa locale . . .
. . . is there an application open for the fly on your wall?
The thing is, those highly alcoholic versions of Guinness were actually brewed in Africa, and not in Ireland or the UK.
When I first heard of them, related in tones of awed wonder by my friends, (and I vividly recall this) as an undergrad in a pub, sitting with friends, - the (cardiologist) father of one friend - home from a stint abroad - who was funding our beverages for the evening - I didn't believe these wondrous tales of a legendary (highly alcoholic) version of Guinness that could be had in a continent that lay far from us.
At that time, the only people I had ever heard refer to it were diplomats, or clergy, or medical professionals - in other words, individuals whose professional work and world took them to the sort of places where one could find this nectar, and whose children I knew at university. Naturally, I didn't believe them.
I had put Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy (and any and all versions of God) behind me: Thus, why believe in the existence of an exceptionally robust version of Guinness brewed for the export market (especially when such delights were denied us at home in those days)?
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Yes, absolutely agreed, it was.In no way can I assume native familiarity with such things, but--I must say--FE is much more familiar to the Guinness which I enjoyed 40 years ago, than that of which is usually offered, today.
A true Meal-in-a-Bottle.
{ribeye/cob-corn/broc is the menu for tonight, so the FE is just a happy segue
Medium rare?
Excellent.
Actually, I have been known to request my burgers rare - the same way I prefer steak - and I agree: A burger is (something approaching a statement of fact, rather than an opinion) rather naked if not dressed with pickles, caramalised onions, melted cheese, and - an optional (if preferred) extra, seriously good smokey bacon.
Getting ready to jet-out to explore Teh Mojave . . . just a little (11.2oz) to smoothe the transition
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We can't get those here.
Just the regular extra stouts... which I love!
Ok, I should not be reading this on an empty stomach))))
btw, if you're looking to make your own — I could not recommend these guys more! https://schweidandsons.com/
Went to one my local supermarkets (Albert Heijn). They carry quite a few Trappists. Not pictured is La Trappe since I've already had one before.
These are pricey so I better enjoy them at their best!
You might also be able to spot a weird bottle on the right. That's my city's brewer which in all honesty makes terrible beer! Only Belgian beers but they taste like they took water out of the nearby contaminated canal lol
EDIT: A few pics of them poured:
The Chimay is very dark!!
Both are ovet 9%
EDIT: Okay, so I drank all three now. Great beers, didn't know they were all nearly 10% until now! Time to take a long hike and walk off the alcohol
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Went to one my local supermarkets (Albert Heijn). They carry quite a few Trappists. Not pictured is La Trappe since I've already had one before.
These are pricey so I better enjoy them at their best!
You might also be able to spot a weird bottle on the right. That's my city's brewer which in all honesty makes terrible beer! Only Belgian beers but they taste like they took water out of the nearby contaminated canal lol
EDIT: A few pics of them poured:
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The Chimay is very dark!!
Both are ovet 9%
EDIT: Okay, so I drank all three now. Great beers, didn't know they were all nearly 10% until now! Time to take a long hike and walk off the alcohol
Die hakken er wel in ja
Some seriously excellent beers there, and, indeed, some of my own personal favourites, as well.View attachment 2404549
Went to one my local supermarkets (Albert Heijn). They carry quite a few Trappists. Not pictured is La Trappe since I've already had one before.
These are pricey so I better enjoy them at their best!
You might also be able to spot a weird bottle on the right. That's my city's brewer which in all honesty makes terrible beer! Only Belgian beers but they taste like they took water out of the nearby contaminated canal lol
EDIT: A few pics of them poured:
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The Chimay is very dark!!
Both are ovet 9%
EDIT: Okay, so I drank all three now. Great beers, didn't know they were all nearly 10% until now! Time to take a long hike and walk off the alcohol
The Westmalle Dubbel is also an excellent beer.
Do enjoy.