[What You Should Order At...] Korzo

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses. When the mood strikes, we pick one Park Slope resto and recommend our favorite dish. Are we right? Are we wrong? YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.

It's a scientific fact that everything on the planet is WAY better when it's been deep fried. N.A.S.A. SCIENTIST TRUTH. I'm fairly certain that I once saw something on the History Channel about it. JK. The only thing I've ever viewed on the History Channel was something about aliens & Jebus. HISTORY. Also a bunch of Nazi stuff.

But seriously though, after the discovery of fire back during early Geico-pitchman days, deep frying is the best cooking technique that ever happened to humans. FUCK SOUS VIDE.

Way back in early 2010, we positively gushed over the art of deep-fried Robicelli's cupcakes. Right here on Park Slope's 5th Ave, Chip Shop deep fries the shit out of stuff for a living. One of my fave things to nosh on at the annual 5th Ave Street Fair is deep-fried Oreos. Has Fonzy perhaps long since leapt over that proverbial culinary shark tank as far as deep frying goes? Probably, but fuck if I care. I say bring it on.

At Korzo, on 5th Ave way down in what is pretty much the South Slope these days, their whole thing is deep-fried burgers.

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What You Should Order At...Blueprint (Cocktail Edition!)

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.  

The cocktail bars keep popping up in the Slope but by far my personal favorite is still always Blueprint. Consistently excellent libations, delicious snacks, and an incredible staff complete with hot Aussie bartender (Hi Andy!).

I’ve have ashamedly tried 80% of the cocktails on the Blueprint menu, so I thought I’d share a couple favorite selections with you that are sure to please even the most discerning of palates.

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[What You Should Order At...] Sea Witch

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WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses. When the mood strikes, we pick one Park Slop(ish) resto and recommend our favorite dish. Are we right? Are we wrong? YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.

When I last wrote about Sea Witch just after its opening way back in early 2012, I had no idea that it'd eventually become the Brooklyn bar that I'd end up most frequenting. I mean, at the time of that first visit, the indoor fish tank & beer selection & food & tunes were relatively cool but the backyard was non-existent & shit, there are a MILLION bars in Brooklyn. Still, the backyard eventually opened & I have friends who live just around the corner & Sea Witch still has their menu of exceptionally-well-done bar food, so I kept finding my way back. Also: OTHER THAN ME, LOW DOUCHEBAG QUOTIENT.

That menu: I've more than dabbled in the burger. I've tried the clam sandwich & the oysters & the kielbasa sandwich, each on multiple occasions. They've even added tacos, but I've yet to go down that path. Still, the one dish on their menu that stands out is their Pork Schnitzel Sandwich ($7).

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[What You Should Order At...] Fort Reno Provisions

WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT... is a recurring column designed in kind for your opinionated asses and our lazy asses. When the mood strikes, we pick one Park Slope resto and recommend our favorite dish. Are we right? Are we wrong? YOU KNOW YOU WANNA WEIGH IN.

Over the last few years, Park Slope has gone from a nabe with zero legit BBQ joints to one with a few respectable spots sprinkled around the Park Slope/Gowanus border...& NO, Pork Slope does not count as a place to get legit BBQ, no matter how many times people refer to it as one. Sorry, LJ. It just isn’t.

Before Fletchers & (soon to be) Dinosaur BBQ, there was Fort Reno Provisions, the place owned by a group including Jacques Gautier of Palo Santo. Since opening back in January of last year, the tiny restaurant on Union just above 4th Ave has gone through a number of menu tweaks & while it hasn't earned the same acclaim as Fletchers & probably isn't worthy of it, it's continued to pump out pretty solid BBQ. For most of this time, they've offered up a dish called the "Hot Mess." While one might hope that a dish with such a name would have clumps of LiLo's, er...Amanda Bynes' hair in it, that's unfortunately not the case.

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[WHAT YOU SHOULD ORDER AT...] Provini

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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.  

So, true: we may have said some shitty things about Provini.  Guess what?  We still stand by them.  But, just like you end up going to Dunkin Donuts because it's around the corner from your office instead of going to a coffee shop that serves that roast you love.  YOU'RE LAZY AND IT'S RIGHT THERE. Also, you don't have any principles, as your father would say.

Anyway, Provini (1302 8th Ave, at 13th St, 718-369-2154) is an Italian trattoria that serves a lot of solid homemade dishes, even if the service blows.

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