Bob Law's Seafood Cafe
Subject: Bob Law's Seafood Cafe
It's on Vanderbilt. Anyone ever been? Any reviews?Comments
-
I've been once about a year ago, and I'm not sure why I haven't gone back, since I liked it a lot. The fried seafood had a nice crust while not being overcooked, and the sides (collards, black eyed peas, mac and cheese, candied yams, etc.) were also good. And it's not as heavy as it sounds. It is a little pricey for what it is, but the food is good.
-
i can't walk past this place without thinking of Bob Loblaw...
-
Look at this blast from the past from the Daily Heights archives:
http://www.dailyheights.com/archives/223 -
I love it, but I feel really guilty about the starch and fried foods so I usually save it for a night when I'm really feeling like pigging out. And btw, I've tried the fish for four and we had enough left over to eat for two days.
-
we love this place. great fried fish and real southern-style sides.
-
Awesome! I have a difficult time finding good Southern cookin' around here, and it sounds like Bob is a good local businessperson who deserves support from the neighborhood. I'm gonna check it out.
-
Subject: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
the food is great. But if you've never heard Bob Law give a speech, you've missed something. He's an incredible speaker.
He will be speaking at the Rally Against Ratner this Sunday. Come on out and hear him, its as much a treat as his crab cakes! -
snootyusher wrote: i can't walk past this place without thinking of Bob Loblaw...
somehow I have the same problem.
Also, right across the street is Cleve Brown's office, which is funny, because his name is obviously Cleveland Brown and he's just shortened it so it's only funny for people who think about it for a minute instead of for everyone. -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
ratnerville4ever wrote: the food is great. But if you've never heard Bob Law give a speech, you've missed something. He's an incredible speaker.
I just a attended a conference last weekend about using the US constitution to protect your community from unwanted corporate intrusions.
He will be speaking at the Rally Against Ratner this Sunday. Come on out and hear him, its as much a treat as his crab cakes!
Seems about 100 townships in Penn. have adopted town ordinances that prohibit corporate hog farms. When the first one was adopted five years ago, the agribusiness crowd rushed a bill into the state legislation to take away this right from the townships. For 4 years, the bill was defeated. Finally last year, the lobbyists won out
Now just two weeks ago, the state Attorney General filed lawsuits against 4 townships claiming their anti-corporate farming ordinances are illegal. Stay in touch, this should be interesting.
Something to think about the next time you bite into a cheap pork chop at Bob Laws. You might even ask Bob where he buys his pork chops! -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
greg wrote: [quote=ratnerville4ever]the food is great. But if you've never heard Bob Law give a speech, you've missed something. He's an incredible speaker.
I just a attended a conference last weekend about using the US constitution to protect your community from unwanted corporate intrusions.
He will be speaking at the Rally Against Ratner this Sunday. Come on out and hear him, its as much a treat as his crab cakes!
Seems about 100 townships in Penn. have adopted town ordinances that prohibit corporate hog farms. When the first one was adopted five years ago, the agribusiness crowd rushed a bill into the state legislation to take away this right from the townships. For 4 years, the bill was defeated. Finally last year, the lobbyists won out
Now just two weeks ago, the state Attorney General filed lawsuits against 4 townships claiming their anti-corporate farming ordinances are illegal. Stay in touch, this should be interesting.
Something to think about the next time you bite into a cheap pork chop at Bob Laws. You might even ask Bob where he buys his pork chops!
is there something in particular we should know about bob laws? i think i missed the connection here.... (although that does sound very interesting -- i'm from north carolina, and no fan of big hog farms, nor of their products.) -
He's an activist you can hear on WBAI if I'm correct. He's heavily into individual and community rights. He also owns the health food store a few doors down as well as the seafood place. He's a very bright man.
-
I love going to there, though I wish I could make it more often. I think the catfish is great, and I have to admit that one of the attractions of the going is talking to Bob Law.
-
Idlewild wrote: He's an activist you can hear on WBAI if I'm correct. He's heavily into individual and community rights. He also owns the health food store a few doors down as well as the seafood place. He's a very bright man.
You can see the problem: how do you run a business and still maintain your values? Can Bob buy "grassfeed pork" and still make a buck, or must he trample on the very community rights he advocates and buy from the corporate hog farms. -
greg wrote: You can see the problem: how do you run a business and still maintain your values? Can Bob buy "grassfeed pork" and still make a buck, or must he trample on the very community rights he advocates and buy from the corporate hog farms.
I suppose that you have all of the answers on this subject as well? -
greg wrote: [quote=Idlewild]He's an activist you can hear on WBAI if I'm correct. He's heavily into individual and community rights. He also owns the health food store a few doors down as well as the seafood place. He's a very bright man.
You can see the problem: how do you run a business and still maintain your values? Can Bob buy "grassfeed pork" and still make a buck, or must he trample on the very community rights he advocates and buy from the corporate hog farms.
chipotle has shown that it is certainly possible to stay in business selling organic, ranging, antibiotic-free, etc. pork.
but as this is a thread about bob law, i wonder if you have anything to say about his restaurant specifically. -
greg wrote: [quote=Idlewild]He's an activist you can hear on WBAI if I'm correct. He's heavily into individual and community rights. He also owns the health food store a few doors down as well as the seafood place. He's a very bright man.
You can see the problem: how do you run a business and still maintain your values? Can Bob buy "grassfeed pork" and still make a buck, or must he trample on the very community rights he advocates and buy from the corporate hog farms.
I don't think pork is on the menu. Why not ask where he purchases his food from? As far as his cuisine goes...it's not bad. I like the mac and cheese, greens and shrimp. The counter people are pretty friendly as well. I think Mitchell's did a better job for southern cuisine (I think they may have shut down) -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
greg wrote: [quote=ratnerville4ever]the food is great. But if you've never heard Bob Law give a speech, you've missed something. He's an incredible speaker.
I just a attended a conference last weekend about using the US constitution to protect your community from unwanted corporate intrusions.
He will be speaking at the Rally Against Ratner this Sunday. Come on out and hear him, its as much a treat as his crab cakes!
Seems about 100 townships in Penn. have adopted town ordinances that prohibit corporate hog farms. When the first one was adopted five years ago, the agribusiness crowd rushed a bill into the state legislation to take away this right from the townships. For 4 years, the bill was defeated. Finally last year, the lobbyists won out
Now just two weeks ago, the state Attorney General filed lawsuits against 4 townships claiming their anti-corporate farming ordinances are illegal. Stay in touch, this should be interesting.
Something to think about the next time you bite into a cheap pork chop at Bob Laws. You might even ask Bob where he buys his pork chops!
Greg, what do *you* do to make the world a better place?
All this scolding isn't paying your rent on the planet, if you know what I mean.
Aren't you a realtor?
And . . . I'm looking forward to checking out this place. Love me some Southern!
We went to Stone Park for the first time last weekend (yes love, they sell organics) - they have a biscuits and sausage gravy brunch served with collards that really hit the spot. Mmmmmmmm, fancy brunch! -
Does anyone else think it's strange how different his two businesses are? I mean, southern FRIED food, and, just a few doors down, a health food store.
Kind of funny to me. -
BrookFetish wrote: Does anyone else think it's strange how different his two businesses are? I mean, southern FRIED food, and, just a few doors down, a health food store.
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day.
Kind of funny to me. -
BrookFetish wrote: Does anyone else think it's strange how different his two businesses are? I mean, southern FRIED food, and, just a few doors down, a health food store.
works for me . . .
Kind of funny to me. -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
pitu lillet wrote: [quote=greg][quote=ratnerville4ever]the food is great. But if you've never heard Bob Law give a speech, you've missed something. He's an incredible speaker.
I just a attended a conference last weekend about using the US constitution to protect your community from unwanted corporate intrusions.
He will be speaking at the Rally Against Ratner this Sunday. Come on out and hear him, its as much a treat as his crab cakes!
Seems about 100 townships in Penn. have adopted town ordinances that prohibit corporate hog farms. When the first one was adopted five years ago, the agribusiness crowd rushed a bill into the state legislation to take away this right from the townships. For 4 years, the bill was defeated. Finally last year, the lobbyists won out
Now just two weeks ago, the state Attorney General filed lawsuits against 4 townships claiming their anti-corporate farming ordinances are illegal. Stay in touch, this should be interesting.
Something to think about the next time you bite into a cheap pork chop at Bob Laws. You might even ask Bob where he buys his pork chops!
Greg, what do *you* do to make the world a better place?
All this scolding isn't paying your rent on the planet, if you know what I mean.
Aren't you a realtor?
And . . . I'm looking forward to checking out this place. Love me some Southern!
We went to Stone Park for the first time last weekend (yes love, they sell organics) - they have a biscuits and sausage gravy brunch served with collards that really hit the spot. Mmmmmmmm, fancy brunch!
Yes, I'm a realtor, and also member of Community Board 8, the Park Slope Methodist Social Action Committee, the Park Slope Food Coop where I'm on the GMO Shelf Labeling Committee, the Crown Heights North Assoc. and editor of a newsletter for the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, which was why I was in Penn. at the conference, as NACCE sponsored.
Are you suggesting that being a realor is unethical? -
Idlewild wrote: I think Mitchell's did a better job for southern cuisine (I think they may have shut down)
I haven't walked by there lately, but I assume Mitchell's is still open because their fried chicken got a rave in the Village Voice just a few days ago:
http://tinyurl.com/jkgke
Daaaang. Another place I gotta try now!
-
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
greg wrote: Yes, I'm a realtor, and also member of Community Board 8, the Park Slope Methodist Social Action Committee, the Park Slope Food Coop where I'm on the GMO Shelf Labeling Committee, the Crown Heights North Assoc. and editor of a newsletter for the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, which was why I was in Penn. at the conference, as NACCE sponsored.
O RLY? -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
greg wrote: Yes, I'm a realtor, and also member of Community Board 8, the Park Slope Methodist Social Action Committee, the Park Slope Food Coop where I'm on the GMO Shelf Labeling Committee, the Crown Heights North Assoc. and editor of a newsletter for the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, which was why I was in Penn. at the conference, as NACCE sponsored.
glad to hear itgreg wrote: Are you suggesting that being a realor is unethical?
yup. I'd say that is one of many self-serving ways to support oneself. Sure we all gotta pay the rent/mortgage, but I hope you take as hard a look at red-lining and predatory lending practices and other property oriented issues, since that is your chosen field.
I share your concern about ethics and food, but I'm really tired of your tirades on this board. IMHO you are embodying the crappy stereotype of droning Coop member.
Yes, I love the Coop! -
Subject: Re: Bob Law, Great Food, Great Speaker
greg wrote: Yes, I'm a realtor, and also member of Community Board 8, the Park Slope Methodist Social Action Committee, the Park Slope Food Coop where I'm on the GMO Shelf Labeling Committee, the Crown Heights North Assoc. and editor of a newsletter for the North American Coalition for Christianity and Ecology, which was why I was in Penn. at the conference, as NACCE sponsored.
You didn't mention which company you work for....
Are you suggesting that being a realor is unethical?
Corcoran is like the Monsanto of the realty world. :twisted: -
apollonia666 wrote: [quote=Idlewild]I think Mitchell's did a better job for southern cuisine (I think they may have shut down)
I haven't walked by there lately, but I assume Mitchell's is still open because their fried chicken got a rave in the Village Voice just a few days ago:
http://tinyurl.com/jkgke
Daaaang. Another place I gotta try now!
I don't think they keep their listings up to date -- they had Cabana Carioca (midtown Brazilian) in the blurbs for at least six months after it closed. -
pitu lillet wrote: [quote=apollonia666][quote=Idlewild]I think Mitchell's did a better job for southern cuisine (I think they may have shut down)
I haven't walked by there lately, but I assume Mitchell's is still open because their fried chicken got a rave in the Village Voice just a few days ago:
http://tinyurl.com/jkgke
Daaaang. Another place I gotta try now!
I don't think they keep their listings up to date -- they had Cabana Carioca (midtown Brazilian) in the blurbs for at least six months after it closed.
Point taken, but this wasn't a listing -- it was a review, published five days ago. Check out the link. -
apollonia666 wrote: [quote=pitu lillet][quote=apollonia666][quote=Idlewild]I think Mitchell's did a better job for southern cuisine (I think they may have shut down)
I haven't walked by there lately, but I assume Mitchell's is still open because their fried chicken got a rave in the Village Voice just a few days ago:
http://tinyurl.com/jkgke
Daaaang. Another place I gotta try now!
I don't think they keep their listings up to date -- they had Cabana Carioca (midtown Brazilian) in the blurbs for at least six months after it closed.
Point taken, but this wasn't a listing -- it was a review, published five days ago. Check out the link.
o, yum!
I resorted to buttermilk-soaking and actually frying a chicken a couple months ago.
It was an emergency. -
pitu lillet wrote: I resorted to buttermilk-soaking and actually frying a chicken a couple months ago.
You should try making my late Arkansas mama's fried chicken sometime: Soak the chicken pieces in buttermilk, then dredge in a mixture of half flour and half instant mashed potato flakes, with a little pepper, paprika, and seasoned salt, and fry it up. I know the mashed potato flakes thing sounds weird, but it makes the most wonderfully crispy coating. Try it, trust me!
It was an emergency. -
apollonia666 wrote: [quote=pitu lillet]I resorted to buttermilk-soaking and actually frying a chicken a couple months ago.
You should try making my late Arkansas mama's fried chicken sometime: Soak the chicken pieces in buttermilk, then dredge in a mixture of half flour and half instant mashed potato flakes, with a little pepper, paprika, and seasoned salt, and fry it up. I know the mashed potato flakes thing sounds weird, but it makes the most wonderfully crispy coating. Try it, trust me!
It was an emergency.
mmm that sounds good - I have to try it next time. I usually soak in buttermilk, and use half flour and half corn flour.
Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
- 40K All Categories
- 27.1K Neighborhoods
- 5.1K Crown Heights/Prospect Lefferts Gardens
- 7.1K Prospect Heights
- 2.3K Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy
- 8K Park Slope
- 549 Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
- 442 Flatbush/Midwood/Ditmas Park
- 657 BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens)
- 151 Red Hook
- 104 Gowanus
- 304 Bay Ridge/Bensonhurst
- 130 Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Sheepshead Bay
- 270 Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Downtown
- 598 Windsor Terrace / Kensington
- 673 Greenwood Heights and Sunset Park
- 749 Brooklyn and Beyond
- 6.3K Stuff
- 86 Brooklyn Back When
- 1.2K Brooklyn Pets
- 257 Brooklyn Kids
- 241 Brooklyn Eats
- 51 Brooklyn Booze
- 3.6K The Lounge / Random Stuff
- 611 Brooklyn Politics
- 122 Brooklyn Sports and Fitness
- 111 Brooklyn Photos
- 339 Site Issues
- 8 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- 6.2K Listings
- 1.1K APARTMENTS and REAL ESTATE
- 1.3K Sales Openings Events
- 2.3K The Classifieds