Provini Hates Kids? I Love Provini

So remember when Provini drew the ire of an angry Park Slope Parent on Yelp? And then it exploded into an angry debate between BALLERS, BREEDERS, and people who just love a good online fight (wanna read a good, albeit out-of-date one? Check this out ). 

If you're not already up to speed, the dramarama was based around the fact that some woman wanted to bring her nine-month-old daughter to the restaurant, and called ahead to see if they provided high chairs.  Provini said they didn't, but to come anyway.  Lady shows up and then gets pissed that there's no room to park her stroller.  When she complains, she is told that "Provini is not a child-friendly restaurant."

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Erin McKeown-n-Jill Sobule Rocked My Face Off

FIPS writers get the rep that we're a bunch of dbags who would rather bitch and complain and focus on the negatives of the neighborhood rather than all of the positives.  But come on, that's only HALF true.  Maybe it's because we love the neighborhood SO MUCH that we can't stand it when someone/something shitty rolls up and ruins it. 

Maybe. 

But really, one of my favorite things about Park Slope is that you can live here forever and still discover new spots. Last night was the first time I had ever been to Union Hall (ed note: SERIOUSLY??? We have a Union Hall tag for Christ's sake! :) (702 Union Street at Fifth Ave), and my immediate reaction when I walked in was "WHY HAVE I NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE?"

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Count Metromix's Hot Plates Live as another successful tasting event at the Bell House

Featuring small bites (or, if we were in an episode of Top Chef, "amuse bouches") from 11 local restaurants, and four beers (Can I have four beers?) served in dixie cups (though, let's face it: I probably wouldn't be happy unless I was served beer in gallon jugs), alongside a cheese plate, the event space at the Bell House was crowded but not obnoxious at the Metromix Hot Plates Live shindig.

HOW'S THAT FOR A RUN-ON SENTENCE? Suck it, bitchez, I've got some food to write about.

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Park Slope Parents Run The Prospect Park Zoo?

And I don't mean "run the zoo" as in, those obnoxious aholes were all up in my grill when I was just trying to watch the 2pm sea lion feeding, letting their dbag children climb up onto the gates and scream loudly. I don't mean that AT ALL.

No. I mean this kind of shit being posted by the baboon cages: "We encourage our baboons to be themselves" --just like "we encourage our children to be entitled brats."

I mean, it's not much of a stretch, anyway. Baboons, small children...totally the same thing.

Buffalo Soldier: Wing Off #2

Your very own Buffalo Soldier is a product of Buffalo, New York, the home of abandoned factories, national sports teams who seem to have a stranglehold on the “runner up” category, and perhaps most notably, the very place where Buffalo wings were invented: at the fabulously divey Anchor Bar.

My quest for a little slice of home in Park Slope is something I don’t take lightly, so here's the second edition of wing offs as I eat my way through the Slope looking for the best of Buffalo.

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