So you haven’t had Fellini’s, Nice Slice or Al Forno? Pasquale’s in North Kingston? Figured as much after your comments. Not trying to be a dick, just… You really don’t have a worthwhile opinion if you haven’t at least had grilled pizza at Al Forno.

We’ll disagree about the quality of the food. The best food in Providence rivals the best food anywhere. But there certainly are more top restaurants by sheer numbers in New York or other larger metros, no one is arguing against that. But you can only do so much, and I think the illusion of choice is a much bigger draw than the actual abundance of it. Maybe not for you, but for 99% of people they develop routines and favorite spots and go-to haunts and those exist everywhere.

Just google Providence food scene, plenty of articles from the globe, NYT, eater, Forbes etc. Travel and Leisure readers voted it the #1 food city in the country 5 or so years ago. I don’t think that’s true, but obviously it has a foodie reputation outside of the state.

Not sure how to tell you this but “I’ve never seen” isn’t the flex you seem to think it is…

Sad I have to explain this but apparently I do.

Cities like Providence fly under the radar of most people. How can you get an unbiased opinion of a city or it’s food scene if most people haven’t experienced it? Therefore “a lot of people don’t think that” doesn’t mean jack shit.

But the ones who know, know. And that includes a ton of food writers, celebrity chefs, and critics.

Every weekend lol, you mean once? Once is plenty enough to know you’ve been missing something your whole life. As I said, every out of towner I’ve brought there rethinks their assumptions about what makes good pizza. They still love their NY thin or apizza or deep dish or whatever, but grilled pizza wedges itself at the top with the best of them.

Because populist opinion is always correct?

Unbiased foodies would say Providence gives Boston a run for its money.

If someone said “hey this very unserious person with unserious opinions is going to very unseriously attack you ad hominem because they are that unserious” I would have said “oh shit yeah that checks out”

You cannot be seriously linking a Yahoo article to me.

Look I’m not going to pretend providence gets the recognition it deserves by unserious people linking unserious publications.

My anecdotes are that every single person I’ve brought to Providence, and Al Forno in particular, whether from NYC or Chicago or New Haven, have left reconsidering their most deeply held pizza beliefs about what is and isn’t great pizzas.

If you can’t relate, you haven’t been. Simple as.

And that’s ignoring the other 10 places in RI that give every other 10 places in a different state a run for their money.

I see you’re as unserious as your opinions. Cool have fun with that.

Completely telling on yourself if you think Providence doesn’t have great pizza. Just admitting you know nothing or have truly horrible taste.

There’s also thousands of restaurants and bars here though. Obviously you didn’t actually go to that many bars or restaurants or other places in NY, but have you gone to all of those in Providence? Probably not?

Providence food scene blows Boston out of the water. Not even close.

Unless you love your specific fucking sushi pop style restaurant in the new bland soulless commercial hellscape that is your new loft living building more than the other exact same thing down the street.

Boston used to be cool. Had a chance with the seaport and Cambridge developments. Ruined both.

People who say this always amuse me. I lived in both. People like to reference the thousands of restaurants they never ate at, the hundreds of bars and clubs they never went to, all the concerts happening every weekend they never bought tickets for. Truth is, your clique is only so big, and that can exist in any city. And so often it thrives much better in a tighter community like Providence than it ever can it a major metro like NYC.

Love both. Prefer Providence.

Mine has been insanely high too, I think the rates are gouged from inflation / corporate opportunism. Hasn’t been cold yet and my bills are higher than the coldest months of the last few years.

I respect that you’ve got an interest in solving the housing crisis, but catering and capitulating to multimillionaire developers in the private sector who milk public funding via tax breaks to build million dollar condo units inaccessible to 99% of Rhode Islanders is absolutely a bridge too far. Ridiculous that we even have to consider this. Bending over backwards to do their fucking PR for them. It’s absurd, insulting and everyone here advocating for it should be ashamed, even if it ultimately is a marginal plus for the market. Which I really don’t believe it is.

Awfully defensive, ProvBroker.

Use your brain and think of what non rental condo units mean. And then keep thinking about it for like 1hr if you’re going to respond to me. And then don’t.

These are not market rate apartments. They are luxury condo units.

Creating so-called “luxury” rental units is fine, and does relieve pressure across the board (not immediately, though). This isn’t that. Actual luxury condominiums aren’t going to do shit for the thousands of crappy multi family units controlled by slum lords.

Far too simplistic. We’re talking about the supply of affordable housing, which remains unchanged with the introduction of luxury units. Go back to Econ 101.

You’re advocating for a weird sort of trickle down housing which is almost offensive in how much it assumes the poor and working class stand to benefit from policies and practices that solely benefit the wealthy.

Downtown has added thousands of luxury units in the last decade. You’re telling me the guy looking to move in there is freeing up a unit of housing in silver lake? Give me a break.

This is luxury housing. In what world will this free up market rate housing to alleviate the pressure? Hint, it won’t.

> young

> early 40s

thank you for this

That’s something a Colly Hiller would say…

Federal Hill Taphouse does $1.50 oysters and half off apps. Durk’s is half off apps on Thursdays. Black Duck is half off apps on Wednesdays.

You really need to make your way over to the dog park at the end of Broadway by the church. A true gem, maintained by people who care, and frequented by competent dog owners.