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Sunday, August 31, 2003
Mike Daisey his wife and some friends Schnacked out the other night, fresh from their trip to Edinburgh. Thanks Mike.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Sunday, August 31, 2003
We certainly want to thank NY Mag for including us in the 100 cheap places to eat in NYC. It was a great help to us in "getting the word out." Here is just one example of some people who checked us out because of the article.
"Anyways, I'd picked up a copy of New York magazine at the airport, which had an article for "100 Great Meals under $25." One, Schnack, touted these tiny burgers that (a) definitely rival White Castle in terms of taste-for-the-size and (b) talked about homemade Orange Juliuses. When I hit Shan up with that bit of information, that was the clue-in for us to go.
It's down in Brooklyn, the corner of Union and Columbia (or very close to it).
Phenomenal food - we each ordered four burgers. Two of mine came with "Schnack sauce" (thousand island dressing with a lot of various spices thrown in, VERY good); we ordered the homemade onion rings and fries. The onion rings were lacking in batter, but that's what made them good. REALLY good.
We each had beer - Shan had one, I had two -- and that was enough to get us succinctly plowed and ready for bed."
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Sunday, August 31, 2003
The word from Delicious Pictures, the producers of Cooking in Brooklyn is that the show will now air in Jan '04; I'm guessing as a mid season replacement. This should also give them (and Alan) plenty of time to get the word out about the show.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Sunday, August 31, 2003
Wednesday, August 27, 2003
We had a nice party tonight for a Schnackie Fan, Sue who had 20 of her friends join us for all you can eat and drink Schnackie and Jever fest in her honor.
We are also now serving a Dentergems and Grapefruit "Cocktail" a refreshing and tasty combination of Wheat Beer, fresh grapefruit juice and sugar.
DJ Zebra Blood got his picture on the cover of... GO Brooklyn. Not exactly "Rolling Stone," but we hope he sends a copy to his mother.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Friday, August 22, 2003
Schnack @ night was fun last night. Plenty of old friends dropped by and some new ones. We kept the kitchen open until 1:15 and the drinks poured until 2am.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Friday, August 22, 2003
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Happy to be mentioned in Patty's Bio. Patty is part of Picky Tooth and writes (in part) about herself, "she is currently infatuated with Jubilat kielbasa, onion rings from Red Hook's Schnack."
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Monday, August 18, 2003
If the lights going out and having a banner weekend wasn't enough to keep us excited we got a special surprise during Sunday Prime-Time. Chris, who had recently shoot an episode of Sex in the City, started getting phone calls. It turns out the episode aired! My online TV guide lists it as, "No Shoes, No Service" but HBO's web site lists it as, "episode 83, 'A Woman's Right to Shoes.' " His character has a restaurant interaction with "Samantha."
Late Sunday Chris's buddy Pablo Schreiber (better known as HBO The Wire's Nick Sobotka) and some other friends stopped by to help Chris celebrate.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Monday, August 18, 2003
Friday, August 15, 2003
Where were you when the lights when out? We were Schnacking. We pulled the tables out on the sidewalk and we cooked until the sun when down. We didn't cook that many meals but we certainly helped some people who otherwise didn't have a place to eat. Interesting as well, a number of families used Schnack as their Emergency meeting place. The griddle wasn't working but we cranked up the Char-Boiler and turned out the most amazing Schnackies!
Today, Friday, we got power back early and we didn't lose to much "stuff." We did lose some fish and Ice Cream. I hit the food warehouse early, which got it's power back at 4:30am and found them stocked to the gills and mostly empty of people so I loaded up on everything we would need for the weekend. It turns out that was a good thing; Friday was, with many people taking the day off, one of our busiest days ever.
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Friday, August 15, 2003
Thursday, August 14, 2003
I can confirm that Pacifico Bar, 269 Pacific Street (at the Corner of Smith and Pacific, Brooklyn), will be opening this Wens the 20th for Dinner and opening for lunch starting Sat the 23rd. I stopped by to check on their progress and it's looking really HOT!
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Thursday, August 14, 2003
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Wow, 8 days or so since the last entry. 8 busy Schnack filled days.
How fast can you eat a Schnackie? How about 8 of them? Some of the folks who are working on the rebuilt of the Manhattan bridge bought 170 schnackies the other day and had a contest to find out. The winner ate 8 of them in 6 minutes.
Zack, our single best customer (based on a 2 or 3 times a day Schnack habit), who has departed for a job in Maine, after eating dinner and having a few drinks managed to do 7 in 6 minutes as well.
The Red Rail has closed, although rumored to be reopening as a bar; we picked up a small amount of brunch business from them (we think).
Pacifico Bar, a new venture on 269 Pacific street, will be opening in the next week or so. Think Mexican food and drink!
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Monday, August 04, 2003
It would be an understatement to say that the last 3 weeks at Schnack have been busy. Their are a lot of things I have wanted to mention here but haven't had the time.
1) Our friends who traveled into Canada reported back saying French fries their are served with a beef gravy. We will probably try a pork gravy based on the "jus" from our garlic roasted pork some time this fall.
2) Mike had the an urge the other night and brought in a bunch of pork ribs which he brazed and then almond crusted; they sold almost as well as the blue berry hot cakes we have been running for breakfast!
3) Many thanks to the Schnack Soft Ball team although they didn't win their play-offs they were all big winners in our book for both their love and devotion to the game and of course to post game PBR's.
4) We have catered a few parties in the last few weeks and that has gone well; special thanks to David and Company who we did our first catering job for.
5) So many other people I'd like to thank; the most important are those who have come in when we are really busy and who have been happy and relaxed enough to sit back, enjoy a cold beer or milkshake and wait for all of their food to be cooked to order!
6) Also a big schnack thank you to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle which ran a full sized broadsheet page on us, me and my partners and some of their various Brooklyn eateries we are associated with.
7) Huge thanks to the owners and staff at Bagels by the Park (323 Smith) who have been so supportive in the last year of everything we have done!
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Monday, August 04, 2003
Friday, August 01, 2003
We had a discussion today about the financial requirements for building out a 2nd location; we will have to raise some $$, but it looks like we are well on our way to gaining a 2nd Schnack location. Also potentially on the drawing board is some type of truck that can sell Schnack at Street Fairs and do catering like Birthday Parties!
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Friday, August 01, 2003
Another Thursday goes by and Schnack at Night is doing well. Again about 30 or 40 people stopped by between 11pm and 2am. The music was rocking. Special thanks to DJ Zebra Blood who left the Gig at Schnack to go directly to an other gig!
Harry "Hey Chef" Hawk Friday, August 01, 2003
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