Brooklyn Paper Review
Corned beef hash is that most maligned of breakfast dishes. A truckstop classic, hash is all too often served up, oatmeal-style, with all the character of a bowl of gray mush.
Typically, even the corned beef itself is an after-thought, a bit of salty, meaty flavoring added to give the overcooked potatoes a bit of taste.
Fortunately, there is Dizzy’s, Park Slope’s self-described “finer diner,” where the corned beef hash lives up to its billing.
“That’s Dizzy’s in a nutshell-a neighborhood restaurant where you’ll leave with much more than a full stomach. It s a place where everyone knows your name and one that truly serves the community of Park Slope.
When Ben and Matheo opened it in April 1998, they wanted to create “a finer diner” that would feel like home. The food is certainly finer
than most diners. Incredible breakfasts served all day long, homemade mac-n-cheese topped with Rice Krispies, wonderful salads and sandwiches, and delicious dinner entrees. In fact, on most weekends, there’s a wait to get in for brunch. Many in the neighborhood claim their coffee is the best around. Ditto that for their Brooklyn Egg Creams.”
“Sunday brunch is supposed to be not something you drag yourself out of bed for at 11 A.M., but, rather, a denial of the fact that the weekend may actually at some point end. That said, you won’t find more rumpled-sheets comfort than at Dizzy’s, a bustling local mecca tucked away among the brownstones in Brooklyn’s Park Slope. ” ‘Funk-frump’ is the official style that we’ve created here,” deadpans co-owner Ben Hoen, who opened this quirky diner two years ago with locals Matheo Pisciotto and Dizzy Brackdorfe. Dizzy’s covers its lemon-yellow walls in not-bad art by local talent, and the jazz act, Mike Petrisino Trio, seems perhaps four times too good to be gigging the hash-house circuit. Dizzy’s is the place in the neighborhood where Park Slope most feels like Park Slope, a Berkeley East holdout to the neighborhood’s creeping Upper West Sideism. The reasonably priced menu is ambitious (check. out the Eggs Ben-a-Dizz and the huevos rancheros) but delivered with a needed un-Manhattan wink (witness the Big-Ass Apple Pie).”
“Then there’s the corned beef hash at Dizzy’s, a sunny corner spot in Park Slope, Brooklyn, that calls itself a ”finer diner.” With its peppers and onions sautéed in a sweet, warm blend of ancho chilies, cumin, cinnamon and Old Bay seasoning, firm knobs of potato and perfectly charred hunks of juicy, caramelized meat, it’s a Van Gogh to Hormel’s velvet Elvis.” >>Read the Full Article