EAT & DRINK: Please Don’t Tell and Crif Dogs

Please Don’t Tell & Crif Dogs
113 St. Marks Place
New York, NY 10009
Tel: (212) 614-2728

PDT is the kind of bar that makes you wish you could live during the prohibition days just so you could feel vivacious and dangerous. Hidden behind the door of a pretend telephone booth inside Crif Dogs on St. Marks Place, once inside (you need a reservation), you’ll understand why the place is called Please Don’t Tell. The bar has an underground-hipster-meets-country-club-chic. One of the many fabulous, but strange cocktails consists of a bacon-infused whisky made with maple syrup and bitters. The Black Flip is made of rum, stout beer, and egg. It’s delicious.

The bathroom, adorned with broken mirrors on the walls, warns its patrons not to sell cocaine inside the lavatory.

Also, you can order dogs and tater tots from next door to accompany your high profile cocktail. White trash at the country club never tasted so good. So drink some bacon under a stuffed deer. You’ll love it.

–Mindy Hyman

The Daily Shortlist April 10

Anita Chernewski (American, b. 1946). Coney Island (Thunderbolt), 1987. Gelatin silver print. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist

Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Art: Goodbye Coney Island?
Show time: Mon. to Fri: 10:00 to 5:00 PM, Sat. & Sun. 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Venue: Brooklyn Museum
Food: Tom’s Restaurant
Drink: Soda Bar
Miscellaneous: Cheryl’s Global Soul

With all the controversy surrounding Coney Island and what the future will hold for this New York landmark, the Brooklyn Museum shows Coney Island’s development in this photo exhibition from its heyday through its many ups and downs over the years. Open since 1936, Tom’s Restaurant is more than just a diner. You may have to wait on line to get in, but the waiters are constantly bringing you coffee and other goodies. The food is excellent with an insane breakfast menu and the people treat you like family. One of my favorite bars in Brooklyn, Soda Bar offers inexpensive drinks, great DJs, and the food is very good too. It’s the combination of all these things that’s the draw. Cheryl’s Global Soul takes a more international approach to soul food. With fare like Thai Coconut Curried Mussels and Moroccan Vegetable Tagine, the food here is fresh and inventive.