NYC EATS!

We consumed a great variety of great food while in NY. We ate at a vegitarian Korean place (name to come) that was really good. I tried some odd root thing to be daring...maribel found the texture to be disconcerting to her palate, but we all loved the dumplings and the papaya salad. We always need to sink our teeth into a few places when we travel to the big apple. Maribel loves gray papaya's dogs and carnige deli's lucious cheese cake (yes, for that we break our no sugar vow...and jacque torres). We also ate a new place getting alot of attention in the ny times, buttermilk channel in brooklyn, where we had a lovely brunch.

This time we finally got around at trying america's first pizza place, lombardi's (since 1905!). It was very good and worth the hype. Last trip we tried the pizza joint that is really getting great reviews, CO...which was very good.

Chocolate in NYC!

In my continued quest to find wonderful chocolate...especially hot chocolate ( you know, not the kind you make from a suspicious little paper packette, lined with ever-so-thin tin foil, Jacque Torres' remains a constant and a must drink opportunity. Maribel tried, and we all loved, the iced hot chocolate! The torres' francize at his DUMBO location in brookly has now ventured into icecream making. This trip, we found another great place in brooklyn called the chocolate Room. Great chocolate in all forms: liquid (hot and cold), cake, icecream and truffles. The truffles were very creative, some with sea salt, flowered herbs and our favorite was orange chiptole!

MARIBEL'S B-DAY dinner

Country vegetable salda, diced vegetabls with herb mayonaise, steak diane with pomme willams na sauteed vegies and apple-blackberry crsip wiht a twist (apple-black berry compote wit hstreusel topping and mascarpone cream

building the perfect burger...

I am in continual pursuit of finding and or making the perfect burger. Usually the two, the finding and then the making (i.e. stealing the idea/recipe) go hand in hand. While in Minneapolis I happened upon a very good burger at Eatery 112...yummmy, straight forward with a bit of a subtle twist of flavors. It was on a homemaked english muffin, served with melted brie and stilton (I think) cheese with a side of home made pickles with pickled japaleno peppers as a relish. The presentation was clean, neat as were the flavors! YUM! What makes a perfect burger for you? Where have you had one and what made it stand out and dance?

NYC 3.20/09 food finds

From 'the

behind the red curtain' burger (in the parker meridien hotel), to the yummy pickles, yogort, raw chocolate and baked goods at the DUMBO flea makert....nyc is offers fun food finds!

The tried and true, jacque torres, is still a most for any trip to manhattan, while the new 'pure dark' offered pure nonsense in the way's of cocoa magic. Lil' frankies, in nolita has very good pizza and my new upscale restaurant find-dove tail was great.
Disappointments were to be found in "pure Dark" which offered a shabby decor, cheesy disenyland approach and only offering 'darkness' at 57% cocoa. There are still new places to find next trip...the chocolate bar and a new place in brooklyn!