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Something for the NYC Reality Tour

Would you like to visit the cafe from episode 8? Here is an article from Jaunted about the place, Fabiane’s Cafe & Pastry, 142 N 5th St, Brooklyn, NY 11211. If you are interested in the other locales from the show, please visit Luzer’s Flickr set, Flight of the Conchords Reality Tour (NYC). He’s doing an incredible job keeping track!

Sure HBO’s Flight of the Conchords delivers travel tag lines like “New Zealand: It Is Not Australia”, however the show, much of which is filmed on location in New York, features quite a few Williambsburg spots. For example, a tipster informed us last night’s show prominently featured Fabiane’s Cafe & Pastry on 5th.

While Kiwis Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement “dated” girls from this cafe, and enjoyed day old croissants from the cafe, non-fictional Willamsburg dwellers seem to appreciate Fabiane’s food as well. Chocolate Creme Brulee, Tuna with capers, and most of the coffee drinks are favorites.

The service however, is less impressive:

On Saturday afternoons, you must order from the counter, and wait for a table, however long that may take. Meanwhile your dishes and lattes pile up on the counter edge ready to tip over onto your shoes. If you are able to find a table before someone else swipes it from under you, great. If not, too bad, so sad.

I wish I had known this beforehand, as I am not from the neighborhood. The girl bringing out the food from the kitchen rolled her eyes at me and then brushed past me when I asked her about a table. A civilized, mature employee would have just told me about ordering from the front, but this little baby butch punk wannabe did not.

Looks like Bret and Jemaine dodged a bullet by not getting into long term relationships with these waitresses.

From: Jaunted.com