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Tulcingo del Valle
tehuitzingo is even better. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/461529
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Unique Uni Experience at Marea
I also had the fusilli with octopus and bone marrow and tasted several other pastas-buttery rigatoni with cuttlefish and shrimp and garganelli with sausage ragu,also tried some antipasti-grilled octopus, crab salad and stuffed calamari and a crudi tasting-marlin/caviar/mussel vinagrette; scallop/orange/fennel; lobster/olives/plum/tomato; fluke/lemon thyme/olive oil; cuttlefish sliced like tagliatelle and several others that I can't recall. For dessert the gianduja crema and the affogato with zabaglione gelato were insane.
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Unique Uni Experience at Marea
I love uni. The uni panini at El Quinto Pino is nothing less than orgasmic. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/457821.
The uni at Soto is perfection.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/398803
The soba uni ikura at Soba Koh is a religious experience http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/535227
only rivaled by the soba uni at 15 East (and previously at Honmura An)
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/614615
However, I have a new love: the ricci (uni) on a perfecly toasted crostini draped with a transluscent blanket of lardo and a sprinkliing of sea salt at Marea. The fatty pork after taste melds perfectly with the oceanic breeze of the urchin. In lieu of a casket, I want to be buried on a six foot long piece of toast with a mattress of uni tucked snugly under a salted see through comforter of lardo.
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Help - Momofu pig meal for 6+
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/634832
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Bill's Bar & Burger: OMG I Agree with Alan Richman (Sort Of)
I never like Hanson's/BR Guest places.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/617993
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Momofuku Ssam - Bo Ssam, will I ever have it?
I finally made it. Unbelievably good. We were 7 always hungry people, but I think I could take it down with 3 others of my ilk.
http://www.alwayshungryny.com/thought...
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15 East - great again
No mention of the tako? The uni soba is great BTW.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/614615
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Bill's Bar & Burger: OMG I Agree with Alan Richman (Sort Of)
I am not a violent man. But Alan Richman's sacreligious attacks in GQ and Bloomberg on my favorite venerable eating institutions (New Orleans, NYC pizza, Katz's and most recently Peter Luger's) provokes such anger and fury in me that I don't know what would happen if I ever actually bumped into him.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/622383
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/633861
So now I'm horrified that I have to agree with him about Bill's Bar & Burger and disagree with my most respected food blogger/critics Adam "A Hamburger Today" Kuban and Josh "Feedbag" Ozersky who praised BB&B. I found the burger a bit dry and overcooked as a result of the spatula pressed cooking method. Though it reminded me a bit of the unorthodox flat burger I love at Veselka (justly praised by Ozersky), it was a pale imitation with total disregard for temperature. The chocolate malted tasted more of the malt balls they garnished it with rather than Horlick's malt powder and the disco fries (fries with gravy and cheez whiz) were like the bastard spawn of a philly cheese steak and poutine. Of course, Richman then turns his venom towards questioning Adam's and Josh's integrity and knowledge of burgers. Richman hails from Philly, so perhaps I'll shortly have my revenge courtesy of the Yankees.
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The Battle for NYC Slider Supremacy: Mark vs. Kenny
I have long believed that the sliders at Shopsin's were the greatest. Kenny Shopsin could out-White Castle anyone. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/428950 But I just tried Mark Burger, a long narrow burger/beer bar at 33 St. Mark's Place. The onion cheese sliders on a Martin's potato roll rival Kenny's. The choice of ketchups-traditional, bbq, chipotle or jalapeno allow you to vary the experience literally with every bite.You also can get beer or milkshakes and don't have to fear for your life if your cell phone rings (Kenny might have you killed). Kudos to Hungry Goat at http://www.alwayshungryny.com/thought...
for giving me the scoop on a place in my nabe.
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Papaya King or Gray's Papaya...
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/614617
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Cupcake Stop Not Worth the Stop
Agreed. I love food trucks generally but this one sucks.
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Any New Great Sushi?
Sushi Zen? http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/635438
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Papaya King or Gray's Papaya?
I actually prefer mango juice to papaya which Grey's doesn't offer.
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Rockwell's Express in the old Rickshaw Dumpling Space
No, but the ribs looked awful.
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Rockwell's Express in the old Rickshaw Dumpling Space
Grand opening today. They let you mix in your ingredients into the burger. Looked like Cold Stone Creamery except instead of ice cream, brownies and chocolate sauce they take raw meat, cheese, onions and even ketchup and mush them together and form into a paddy by hand and then grill in a commercial George Foreman grill where they cook for over 4 minutes. Temperature choice is either medium or well or scrape it off the grill. Shredded lettuce and tomato which I didn't ask for. I give the place a week. Burger Creations across the street is vastly superior.
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Flagel-late Me!!!
This mystery gets more complex. I just tried David's Bagels on 19th and First, a mere 2 blocks from my go to bagel place Ess-A-Bagel which is known for their bagels on steroids, as tall as they are wide. David's made a flat bagel (they don't actually call them flagels) that rivaled Hot bialys' flagel in Queens. This may be the next evolution of bagels. Like thin crust vs. deep dish pizza! And here's something really strange-both David's and Hot Bialys are owned and operated by Thai families. Well, if the Koreans can successfully hijack fried chicken and hot dogs, perhaps the next great bagel makers are from Bangkok?
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50 Best Dishes in New York
For anyone who doesn't like any of the enumerated dishes, my daughter says "Don't yuch my yum."
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Where is the Best Rice Pudding?
Rice to Riches Rocks! Try Sex, Drugs and Rocky Road or the more traditional Category 5 Caramel. Mrs. GG loves the Jetsons style tupperware too!
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Anyone tried DBGB Kitchen & Bar yet?
In his first review Sifton either lacks the integrity or the palate to give Bould the lousy review which DBGB deserves. I am resubmitting my resume to the Times for the job ;). My review is at the end of the earlier thread linked above.
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Been to Daisy May's recently?
I implore all of you to try the bowl o' red chili at Daisy May's. It justifies everything else.
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Szechuan Gourmet
Went today with a client and two colleagues. She was vegetarian and pregnant so we had spicy cucumber salad, pea shoots, mung bean jello salad, vegetable dumplings and braised fish with napa and roasted chili. All delicious especially the mung bean jello. Since I refused to limit myself to vegetarian, I also ordered the dan dan noodles with minced pork, the diced rabbit with peanuts, the twice cooked pork belly with leeks and the fried lamb fillets with chili cumin and prawns with asparagus. Everything rocked! Only $168 with tip. And the client was very happy with her great dane sized doggie bag.
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Do New Yorkers Like Yakitori?
Been to Torys and Totto many times since then. While very good, Tori Shin is my #1 for yakitori in NYC.
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Do New Yorkers Like Yakitori?
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/424605
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Yummy beignets in manhattan?
Had some good ones at Nizza brunch the other day with jam and butter.
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Burger Bash Report: When the chefs, food media and celebs converge
Full coverage with incredible photos here
http://www.alwayshungryny.com/thought...
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Burger Bash Report: When the chefs, food media and celebs converge
Correct. Goodhealthgourmet-are you my alternative universe counterpart? No one could ever confuse us. Maybe I should change my name to "poorhealthgourmet"
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Burger Bash Report: When the chefs, food media and celebs converge
Another truly spectacular display this year where all my heros mingle with the burger eating masses while I tried to eat one of each burger competing without getting physically ill from protein overdose. Stream of consciousness: Minetta Tavern-can you say Mini-Black Label burgers?; DuMont Burger-Williamsburg's best (other than Luger's) with brilliant fried pickles; Bobby Flay's Burger Palace-wanted to hate it but loved the great sauce with micro-greens and chips on top ( Mrs. GG would claim the Cubans invented "crunchification" by putting potato sticks on their fritas) with a great caramel milkshake; Fatty Crab- a warm shot of rum with tabasco, lime juice and simple syrup to accompany the kimchee topped brisket burger; Lure-the winner of the People's Choice award (who says a fish place can't do meat?); Wildwood BBQ- bbq sauce beats ketchup any day (soon opening Bill's Burger Bar in the Meatpacking District); Old Homestead-aged ground steakburger but the truffle infused mac and cheese was my favorite side dish; Spotted Pig- British April Bloomfield masters Yankee burgers with some blue cheese (roquefort, why not British stilton?) and a duck fat fried potato wedge on the side; Wollensky's Grill-another beefsteak burger with a beefsteak tomato and beefsteak fries; Gus + Gabriel's Michael Psilakis-expected lamb but his short rib and brisket blend was great.
For dessert: Cake Man red velvet cupcakes; Kee's passion fruit bon bons, Jacques Torres chocolate chip cookies and mini-coke ice cream floats courtesy of Coca-Cola.
All of the top food bloggers were vying for interviews and photo opps: emerging internet foodie maverick and founder of AlwayshungryNY Jeff Zalaznick was there ; I saw Josh Feedbag "Mr. Cutlets" History of the Hamburger Ozersky judging, Ed "Serious Eats" Levine dieting, George "Hamburger America" Motz (whose T-Shirt I was coincidentally wearing) showing a slideshow of burger joints from around the country from his book and we exchanged stories about Bobcat Bite in Santa Fe and Hildebrandt's on L.I.; , Annie "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef" Burrell was rockin' out on the food and Adam "A Hamburger Today" Kuban was furiously taking notes like me to try to remember it all . Also someone named "Rachel Ray" showed up though I'm not sure what her connection to great food is. Afterwards I gave thanks for what I had consumed kneeling in front of a porcelain altar trying to prevent a glorious technicolor yawn.
