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field trip -- iron chef japanese in philly
Rumor has it from a real in the know-er that this place ROCKS!!
Il Barilotto
1113 Main St
Fishkill , NY 12524
Phone: (845) 897-4300
"THE World's Most Decadent Hamburger" has come to New York. Served at the Old Homestead in - where else? - the Meatpacking District, the $41 sandwich is made of "hand-massaged, beer-fed" kobe beef, "lobster mushrooms" and micro greens on a parmesan twist roll. "It's the world's most incredible beef," boasts owner Marc Sherry. "Each cattle is hand-massaged and beer-fed, so when the meat is slaughtered the fat content and marbling is very high." The fatty feast is costlier than Manhattan's previous record-holders, the $29 dinnertime burger at '21' and the $27 DB Burger at DB Bistro Moderne. -nyp
Finally found a super Korean spot, I have tried many and this is it IMHO, and the company of Steve and Erin was special:>)....WOOCHON 10 W 36.....
WOOCHON 1*
New Years Dining Resolution's:
1) No more Lupa (I am tired of it)
2) Find a new Grand Sichuan restaurant to BYOB etc....
First meal of note for 2003 is Il Gattopardo (3rd trip) and loved it again, I wish it was less cash and more wine to pick (they are 2* NYTimes and chef was 1* Michelin in Italy I hear)......
My wish list for 2003 is Kurima Zushi (rated #1 in NY per all my sushi guru's...), Wallse and Annisa again due to Rachael reviews, 66 and WD50 (both for many meals), and Kai for the chef's meal, Tommasso's for more old Nebbiolo!!!!.....
To be more Virgo-ian I will rate all meals this year that I love 1* to 3*'s (the 3*'s will be listed in order of favorite's, the rest in no order)......
Il Gattopardo 1*
byebye balducci's
from saveur's 100 favorites issue (jan/feb), sautewednesday, bruce cole's online foodie site. looks good.
Lonely Planet has led me fine most of the time but of course you loose something by using them 100%, I still buy them for almost every place I go and like to get other sourse of info but they just came out with World Food Guide's ....I just bought the Japan one and plan to buy Spain asap (as I leave soon)...I also bought at the Japanese book store some "Food Porno Mags:>)" in Japanese, wow I love this stuff....next is the Japanese grocery stores in Little Japan, I will see you soon...
beer ogles
As strange as it sounds to me, Linda and I are celebrating our tenth wedding anno, 6 weeks from today in New Orleans...after weeks of research we have picked Peristyle for the dinner but are looking as much or more forward to Uglesich's for lunch...Jim Louis we hope to see you for a meal or drinks while we are there, and are open to any food/music/etc news you may wish to share.....
TOP TEN MEALS OF 2002
#1 Da Guido (Piedmonte, Italy)
#2 Taubenkobel (Burgenland, Austria)
#3 Kai (NYC, NY)
#4 Zur Rose (Sud Tyrol, Italy)
#5 L'Astrance (Paris)
#6 Temple Club (Saigon)
#7 Jewel Bako (NYC, NY)
#8 Altwienerhof (Vienna)
#9 Locanda Dell Arco (Piedmonte, Italy)
#10 Lupa (NYC, NY)
last meal out for 2003 was a 4 top at Honmura An and it was a fun time, the place was packed and we waited 20 minute's to sit, the flavors were great and some very unique, the wine list was week but the sake list was fine (Kai on Saturday had a good wine list), soba's were very delish....try this again one day....
From Art of Eating Issue #62
Kaiseki Ryori
(Classic Japanese haute cuisine)
12th Century Buddhist temple life gave rise to the Japanese tea ceremony. Out of that grew the ritualized eating known as kaiseki, and kaiseki evolved into Japan's haute cuisine. The fixed order of the courses in kaiseki is based loosely on cooking techniques: appetizers (zensai), clear broth (suimono), raw fish (sashimi), grilled food (yakimono), steamed food (mushimonto), simmered food (nimono), fried food (agemono), vinegared food (sunomono), and cooked vegetables or salad (aemono). Many courses consist of a selection of little dishes in which seasonality and artful presentation are paramount - fun is important. The kaiseki style of cooking heavily influenced France's nouvelle cuisine chefs in the 1970's, and more recently gave rise to the wave of experimental cooking championed by Ferran Adria.....
Top Restaurants 2002
NYCity
#1 Kai
#2 Jewel Bako
#3 Lupa
#4 Jean Georges
#5 Grand Sichuan Int'l Midtown
#6 Felidia
#7 Union Pacific
#8 Honmura An
El Mundo
#1 Da Guido (Piedmonte, Italy)
#2 Taubenkobel (Burgenland, Austria)
#3 Zur Rose (Sud Tyrol, Italy)
#4 L'Astrance (Paris)
#5 Temple Club (Siagon)
#6 Altwienerhof (Vienna)
#7 Locanda Dell Arco (Piedmonte, Italy)
#8 Les Tonnelles (Loire, France)
#9 Indochine (Siagon)
#10 Walter Bauer (Vienna)
Special Merit/No Particular Order
The Minnow, Veritas, Sistina,
Fresh, Holy Basil, Al Di La
Manducati's, Willi's Wine Bar (Paris)
Tomasso's, Gramercy Tavern, Picholine
Locanda Vini Olii, Al Ponte (Verona, Italy)
L'osteria del Vignaiolo (Piedmonte, Italy)
L'Oste Scuro (Verona, Italy)
Il Gattopardo, Jaglhof (Styria, Austria)
Weininger (Vienna), Loibnerhof (Wachau, Austria)
Zur Blauen Gans (Burgenland, Austria)
Lumiere (West Newton, MA)
Dish
165 Allen Street (btw Rivington & Stanton)
212 253 8840
The brand new Dish was dished in daily candy recently so we took a look. Great building. Nice casual open interior. Not very full for a Friday night at 8:00, but they are new.
I had a full review, but I don't think it's really warranted at this point. They have some problems in the kitchen that will hopefully get worked out. We had a pork chop that was not just underdone, but actually not done at all (well, ok, it was a little charred on the outside, but completely raw on the inside.) And worse, we had a grilled cheese sandwhich that was burnt (like black!) on the outside, and not even melted on the inside. Hopefully they'll get it together on this sort of thing.
The menu is nice. Very cheap. You get a "big dish" (like the pork chop, or 1/2 a chicken, or monkfish, or meatloaf) plus 2 sides of your choice for $12. Sandwiches are $5.50. The sides are mostly cold. Think Mama's, but in a nice room with service and a little more ambition on the main. I had a nice farro salad with basil tomato and pine nuts. Lots of other salads and vegetables (all cold) plus things like mac & cheese (mostly cold,) corn pudding, honey jalapeno cornbread, potato parsnip puree. Interesting stuff, but everything seemed a little tired.
I had a catfish burger as my main, and that was the best thing we ate. It was nice, but nothing special.
The modest wine list seemed a little better than I would have expected. I eyed the 99 JJ Prum riesling kabinett, but went right to the red and enjoyed the 99 palazzo della torre allegrini instead. A nice bottle I am always happy to see on a list.
They are struggling, and I'm rooting for them. Open for lunch which is when I'll try them again. Not sure they're really ready for the prime time yet.
on my annual dinner in the Boston area we picked Lumiere in West Newton...very nice stylie place, food was Provencal and very good....need to find a great place for next year, so far Radius is the best meal for me in Boston but better must exist!!
Dinner at Annisa last night (Barrow Street just East of 7th Avenue). Along with Wallsé, this restaurant has restored my faith in the concept of dining outside of your own kitchen—and I’m always excited to go to Lupa. Annisa is smart and unpretentious with glorious food. I looked around the dining room and wondered how WD-50 could acquire a clientele like this: real people. The partner/manager showed me her new Table Top software that tracks reservations and customer details, there were diners who had been there 70 times. This is what you want, less of the obscene scene; more people, less press.