Times Square IHOP- Page 2

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 12:18pm

"Fran Leibowitz and the Village Voice are gone? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

What they represented has gone. Leibowitz was the voice of old New York. The Village Voice used to be funky, now it's just AM New York or whatever they call those free papers they give out on the subway.

Updated On: 12/10/10 at 12:18 PM

[Weez]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 12:23pm

At least toast is recognisable as a baked product and beans don't glow in the dark. Plus this is the Land of Cadbury's.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:04pm

The experience is not a uniquely New York City experience. What bothers me is that the uniqueness of the city has been lost.

Not in the least. Some of your favorite places may be gone, but NYC has not lost any uniqueness. The city is just changing and evolving. The NYC of your childhood was unique to you, but different from the NYC of the turn of the century. Which was also unique. And the NYC of today. Which is still unique. Putting an IHOP in the tourist central of the most popular city in the world has absolutely NOTHING to do with what makes NYC unique. Zip.

[Q]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:11pm

Did I just read Cracker Barrel being equated to 'southern cooking'?

And by the person who wants to return to the 'uniqeness' of NYC - by importing Dixie regional cuisine?

AND wants a Chik-fil-A?

Whatever.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:16pm

Yeah, I got a chuckle out of that too, Q.

What makes NYC unique (to me) is it's energy, not a restaurant.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:25pm

Q, I would love to see a Pete's Kitchen in Hell's Kitchen. Complete with the crowd from the late 80's early 90's.

[Kad]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 1:48pm

There's plenty that still makes this city unique. You just have to meander outside of Times Square.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:02pm

I agree with Kad. I never eat in Times Square and rarely go into any of the store. I am usually cutting through to get to a show.

[Q]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:07pm

unc - I'd go for that - IF they put one in SoCal first

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:26pm

Q, my point was that if they are going to put in chain restaurants, they might as well put in Cracker Barrel or Chik-Fil-A. There are already IHOPs in Harlem, Queens and Brooklyn.

And yes, Cracker Barrel is southern cooking.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 2:51pm

You really don't have to meander far from Times Square at all. If you google "Times Square restaurants", you'll find plenty of listings that aren't chains. They may not be at the corner of Broadway and 45th, but they are close by.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 3:11pm

I would say Cracker Barrel is mass produced replicas of Southern cooking. Any restaurant that has warnings against eating their vegetables if you are a vegetarian has roots in Southern cooking.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:06pm

You can't be a Southerner and a vegatarian. The two don't go together. Southerners cook their vegetables in all types of animal fat. Their gravies are whisked in the same pan where the meat was fried.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:14pm

This is why we take a veggie break when we are in Tennessee. We go vegetarian when we can, but we won't ask my family to make weird things for us. When Mama makes biscuits and gravy, made with smoked sausage fat, you eat it and probably have some of the smoked sausage, too! Hell, Daddy uses bacon grease in scrambled eggs.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:32pm

My grandmother pops popcorn in bacon grease.

And is there really anything better than white gravy with biscuits?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 4:52pm

I wanted to make biscuits and gravy for my wife because she was crazy about them in the US, but wondered if there was a way without using animal grease. My grandmother suggested making an old fashioned egg gravy. It's certainly not kind to the waistline, but ridiculously good. Now I make homemade biscuits, freeze them and make a small thing of gravy every couple of weeks.

This afternoon we had pea soup and I took two of the frozen biscuits, diced them, tossed them up in a little olive oil, hit them with seasoned salt and popped them in the oven. They were the best croutons I have ever eaten! I bring the south to southern Sweden.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 5:59pm

I heard this a long time ago when they were supposed to go in where bar code was

All hail IHOC International House Of Carbohydrates.

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 6:38pm

All this fuss over an IHOP????????

How come no complaints about (yes, this is for real) the POP TART STORE on 42nd between Broadway and 6th?

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 6:44pm

Hey... where else can you get Pop-Tart sushi?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 7:09pm

That Pop Tart World is one of the most ghetto ass places I've ever been to. Besides the mixing and matching of the different kinds of pop tarts to make your own box, not a one thing there is worth a dime.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 12/10/10 at 7:25pm

Haven't been to the Pop Tart Store, but it doesn't look appealing anyway. The Charmin bathrooms right near it is way more appealing, and that is a bathroon.

[Calvin]

Posted: 12/11/10 at 12:09pm

That Pop Tart thing has apparently been open for months and I've never even noticed it until now.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/12/10 at 12:27pm

I never noticed it at all

I did notice the brand new Shake Shack on 8 th Avenue

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/12/10 at 1:21pm

Times Square is a lost cause that has turned ultimately into The Most Irritating Place On Earth. I don't know a single New Yorker who doesn't avoid it like the plague.

What pisses me off is that you know the developers over at Coney Island are probably using Times Square as their model.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/13/10 at 12:18pm

You mean Coney Island may be refurbished into something other than a forgotten hell hole? All they need is to keep the Cyclone and the Wonder Wheel and gut rehab the rest. It's been nasty for decades. Any model of improvement would be better than what's been there for the last 30-40 years.

Times Square is a lost cause that has turned ultimately into The Most Irritating Place On Earth. I don't know a single New Yorker who doesn't avoid it like the plague.

That's pretty much true of any major tourist spot in every major city. The locals avoid it because it is a tourist attraction. Prices are higher and the streets/sidewalks are congested. I know lots of New Yorkers and they have ALWAYS avoided Times Square unless they are attending a show. Before the 90s and after.