So we hit up Schnack Sunday night to say goodbye. And although one of the employees confirmed the restaurant was closing, he said he didn't know when. Did I mention that when we showed up at 6 p.m. we were the only ones there? Two more tables trickled in after we ordered.For our goodbye meal we bucked our usual fries and went with onion rings. They were missing some of the seasoning I remember, but were otherwise satisfyingly crisp and just greasy enough. An hour or so later, it hit me that pregnant women probably shouldn't eat onion rings if severe heartburn is in any way bothersome (it is), but I can't blame Schnack on that.Burgers...
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Today in Red Hook was the 2nd Annual Schnack Stahl-Meyer Hot Dog Eating Contest at Schnack. I've always considered myself a pretty good eater, after all, I did win a small cheesecake eating competition. But this was insane. "Gentleman" Joe Menchetti finished a custom made 30" Stahl-Meyer hot dog in under two minutes. 1:53 to be precise. He just blew away the competition. A man amongst boys in this competition. He won't be in the Nathan's competition though as he's an independent eater and that's an IFOCE event.
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Reminded by a comment by Harry Hawk on my Corner Bistro entry, I realized that I have consistently forgotten to review the best burger I’ve had in my own neighborhood: Schnäck, Mr. Hawk’s restaurant, serves a deliciously addictive patty in miniature, and, if they delivered up to Boerum Hill, I’d probably be fat as hell.
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Hip, tiny, and popular, Schnack opened just ahead of the new wave of gentrification making its way through the Red Hook/Columbia Waterfront region of Brooklyn. It’s one of the stars in the Alan Harding constellation that includes The Zombie Hut, Gowanus Yacht Club, The Red Rail, and perhaps most famously (and featured often in his Discovery Home Channel television program), Patois. We like Alan Harding’s show, as self-consciously contrived as it can be, and we also really enjoyed Patois, so we are both a little disappointed that we can’t rave about Schnack. Oh, and we should point out here also that we were seated inside the restaurant, directly below the letter N you see in the sign that says, “OPEN.” You can also see that it’s a red neon letter, so all our photos, despite emergency Photoshop surgery, retain some of their original hue. We don’t want to give the impression here that all Schnack’s food is red or pink. All their food looks perfectly normally pigmented. We swear.
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But wait, isn't this blog about Brooklyn? Yes. Because the best burger I've had in all of New York is at Schnack. Unfortunately, my umbrella is no match for the remnants of hurricane Jeanne (see above picture of my "covered" subway station), and I didn't get out to take a photo of it.
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