[WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT...] THISTLE HILL TAVERN

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses.  We're going to pick one Park Slope resto a week and recommend our favorite dish at each.  Are we right?  Are we wrong?  YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.  

I choose to ignore the fact that "Thistle Hill Tavern" sounds like some sort of a bar/nursing home hybrid (ie: "SHADY PINES, MA!").  Jokes like, "I hear the creamed corn is great HAHAHA" are inevitable. 

But, whatever, Thistle Hill Tavern (441 7th Ave at 15th St; 347-599-1262) serves up some damn good octopus.  And that's all you need to know.

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Park Slope Food Coop Killer?: Wholeshare

photo via Park Slope Lens

Have you been suspended at the Coop? At a loss for where to get your organic fruitz, but too lazy to go do your 12 make-up shifts?

BOOM!

Behold: Wholeshare.

I'm semi-banking on this shit as the Park Slope Food Coop killer.

Wholeshare allows groups of users to join together to pool their orders to purchase from local farmers who only sell in bulk. Then all y'all save up to 20-30% on everything that you buy. It's like a virtual Park Slope Food Coop! But with way the hell fewer rules!

You can form groups however you want: with your neighbors, your co-workers, or your home birthing class friends. Everyone gets an account, fills up their cart, and then when you reach the minimum group requirement for purchase, your shit gets sent to one address. You can even "split" orders. So if you wanna buy cheddar cheese, for example, but the farm that's selling it only sells it in a 10 pound quanitity: don't worry! You don't have to get THAT fat! You can just click on the split button on your cart and then the rest of your group gets some email that's like: "hey, I don't want to get super fat, so I'm only buying 1 lb of cheddar...anyone else wanna split the rest with me?" Then the item only gets officially added to your cart if the rest of your group members step up to the plate and order enough to meet the minimum requirement of all of you getting fat.

Once you form a group, you can post to your group page, send messages back and forth, and see all your past orders.

Ok, truth time: I *did* request an account today so that I could see what this was all about, and they're not quite in our area yet. BUT THEY ARE COMING.

So, stay tuned for the scoop on the FIPS NO BABIES ALLOWED Wholeshare group. Orange vests will totes be optional.

(via Mashable)

OPEN THE DOOR, IT'S... RISOTTO?

Let us not forget Pancake Gate 2010, where some people opened up a delivery-only pancake shop that sounded more like an undercover weed delivery service, ESPECIALLY after everyone said that they placed their legitimate pancake orders (via text, mind you) only to be ignored.

So, imagine my surprise when a new "risotto delivery service" cropped up in Windsor Terrace.  That's right:  Piccoli is a new(ish) delivery/take out-only "risotteria" located on Prospect Park Southwest. 

The idea of delivery risotto might be something so douchey that it could only exist in Park Slope, but I have to say that their menu sounds pretty effing amazing.  They've got a wide assortment of risotto (obviously), but they have a decent selection of regular pasta, antipasti, and paninis. 

Has anyone tried this place?

Scalino Got Seized

image via @superdee

Or served...or whatever the hell you call it.

But the tax man came a knockin' and apparently Scalino, that little Italian-ish joint on 7th Ave between 9th and 10th streets, didn't answer the door.

Let this be a lesson to us all: April 1st April 15 April 18th is just around the corner, ppl.

Park Slope Teens Getting Fat?

As a formerly pudgy little teen bastard who was often vexed by whether nine McNuggets and a large order of fries would be enough to satisfy a bulging tummy, I can't say I'm all that surprised by this recent study about teen eating habits. 

Apparently the study shows that little bastards between the ages of 13-17 haven't exactly been dissuaded from stuffing their fat faces since New York made including calorie counts on fast food menus mandatory in 2008. The survey appeared in the Journal of International Obesity (isn't obesity just an American thing?), and yep: fewer than 10% of the Justin Bieber fans surveyed give a rat's ass that eating two Burger King chicken sandwiches afterschool will probably make hearts explode in twenty-or-so years.

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