Where can I get fancy mushrooms in NYC?


- jim 10-08-2014 11:58 pm

cant vouch for them but i found sos chef on a board. check out the fresh products link. october seems to be their down month though. manhattan fruit exchange in the chelsea market seemed to be a popular response as well.


- dave 10-09-2014 1:02 am [add a comment]


doubt this will help but first time id run across it -- good eggs. locovore delivery in brooklyn. but you can pick it up at a number of locations as well.


- dave 10-09-2014 1:15 am [add a comment]


Yeah, SOS crossed my mind actually. Glad to know they are still there. I bought the morels I had at the first Big Indian there. Doesn't look like they have anything fresh at the moment. Thanks Dave.
- jim 10-09-2014 1:59 am [add a comment]


are you looking for something specific?
- dave 10-09-2014 2:13 am [add a comment]


Not exactly. I'm cooking a birthday meal. Just want something more interesting than the shiitake, portobello, crimini available at Whole Foods. (Although I'm a huge fan of crimini.) Morel? Chanterelle? But I don't even know about seasons for these things. Maybe Union Sq farmers market on Friday.
- jim 10-09-2014 2:20 am [add a comment]


  • i fixed the link on the fresh produce (pdf) at sos. they list chanterelle. fresh direct also had foraged chanterelles and burgundy truffles.

    the one dedicated mushroom purveyor bulich mushroom is only at the greenmarket on saturday but they are farmed and look to be the basics though other purveyors may have wild foraged mushrooms according to another source so friday is probably better.

    ok, youre on your own until skinny comes along with the answer youve been actually waiting for.
    - dave 10-09-2014 2:40 am [add a comment]


  • Reminds me of a New Yorker cartoon, maybe 25 years ago. Kids eating dinner. One turns to Mom and says "Shiitake risotto, again?"
    - mark 10-10-2014 12:17 am [add a comment]



Gourmet Garage? Chicken of the woods (hearty/meaty) and hen of the woods (more delicate) are available now and probably what you are looking for. Chantrelles are probably over for the season. Morels are in the spring.
- anonymous (guest) 10-09-2014 3:43 pm [add a comment]


  • That was from me. Also, maitake=hen of the woods.


    - adman 10-09-2014 3:45 pm [add a comment]



Cepes are also around this time of year.
- adman 10-09-2014 3:47 pm [add a comment]


  • originally i had "skinny or adman...." how right i was. and isnt that the important thing here? also, trust your instincts, dave. trust your instincts.
    - dave 10-09-2014 5:02 pm [add a comment]



when jim?? i could have bought yesterday and overnighted:<(( more warning brother....
- Skinny 10-09-2014 4:16 pm [add a comment]


http://cfmushroom.com/fresh-mushrooms/
- Skinny 10-09-2014 4:21 pm [add a comment]


I had insane Matsutake's last night in soup I made....in japn they are one of the most prized

They cant ship till Monday but its all you need is Lobster and Matsutake, and your a hero

http://oregonmushrooms.foodoro.com/products/fresh-lobster-mushrooms-1-lb

http://oregonmushrooms.foodoro.com/products/fresh-matsutake-mushrooms-1-lb


- Skinny 10-09-2014 4:23 pm [add a comment]


  • maybe you can get them out today!! you have till 11am PST, 2.5 hours brother.... Orders are shipped Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. Orders placed after 11am PST cannot go out the same day. Fresh mushroom ship dates are subject to product availability.
    - Skinny 10-09-2014 4:27 pm [add a comment]



Maitake, aka Hen of the woods, have been procured from Gourmet Garage. Thanks Adman. And thanks Skinny for the offer, but I didn't see the possibility of shipping until right now. I've been out all day shopping and now have been cooking all evening.

The mushrooms are just an accompaniment to the beef course. I'm thinking I'm just going to break them up a bit and then cook them in some butter and salt in a heavy pan on the stove top. Any reason not to do that? Any thing different I might want to try? Thanks again (you too Dave!) for all your help.
- jim 10-11-2014 12:40 am [add a comment]


You may recall that in MUSHROOMS, RUSSIA, AND HISTORY, Valentina Wasson refers to a "a little Jewish Shop," the Reliable Mushroom Company of Rivington Street as the best place in NYC to buy imported dried mushrooms, favored especially by Christian Russians for Lenten fare; dried Polish ceps fetching as much as $8.00 a pound circa 1950. That's Boletus edulis, pre-Chernoble. Food of the gods, indeed.
- anonymous (guest) 10-11-2014 1:23 am [add a comment]





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