Down Home Cooking in the Big City
Trip Start
Dec 10, 2005
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17
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Trip End
Ongoing
New York,
New York,
United States
Saturday, June 16, 2007
The restaurant is small and cozy, and is run by guys and girls in their early twenties. There were ten of us but we had a reservation so there was only a ten-minute wait. The wait was due to one of the waitresses standing on our chairs to write the day's specials on the specials board
01 - Bubby's
. I was a little annoyed by that since I didn't want to sit on the benches after she had stood on them, but they were clean and it was fine. The only problem was had was that the table we were at was very, very small. Ten of us were squished around a table that would seat six comfortably, but that was the biggest table they had.Bubby's prides itself on having the best southern, down-home cooking in the city and the food was pretty good. Not the best I've ever had but it was definitely good. First we started with three appetizers - chicken wings, nachos, and chips. I didn't try the chicken wings since they're not my favorite, and the chips weren't very good. They were fried and the plain ones were great, but some of them were covered in fresh blue cheese and it literally tasted like feet. It's just not for me! The nachos were really good, though. They weren't the best I've ever had but they were good.
As an entree I got the pulled pork sandwich with hush puppies and onion straws. It was all so good! I had never had pulled pork before but my dad loves it so I decided to try it. It was absolutely delicious. The hush puppies were also great, but the best was the onion straws. I love onion rings, but I love onion straws even more. They were very small, thin and crispy and were covered in salt
02 - Bubby's
. Completely unhealthy but completely delicious.The only thing I could fault here was the service. We waited a good half-hour for our appetizers, and then our entrees came out no more than five-minutes later. We had hardly made a dent in the appetizers when our entrees came and there wasn't any room on the table. It was a big pain. It was like the waiter waited for all of our food to be ready and brought it to us all at once so that he only had to make one trip to our table. After he brought our food we didn't see him again. We waited around for a good half-hour for the bill while he was nowhere in sight. The bill came to $300 for the ten of us, tip included. That was a LOT of money for the food we had. The food was good, but you could get the same thing, and a lot more, at Cracker Barrel for less than a quarter of the price. You could tell it was so expensive simply due to the fact that it was in Tribeca.
After we ate we walked around Tribeca for a little while and then made our way back to Brooklyn. Bubby's was good, but I don't think we'll be back anytime soon.
