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Chanterelle has closed. I'm guessing our wedding kept them open a few months extra. Sad to see them go.
- jim 10-01-2009 8:04 pm [link] [1 comment]

b. brought me back an amazing book from her recent European travels titled "Made in Italy Food and Stories" by Giorgio Locatelli, the chef at Locanda Locatelli in London. It's a cook book, but that's selling it quite short. Between recipes he writes at some length about Italian history as it relates to both ingredients and techniques. So you end up learning how and why various food stuffs as well as specific dishes are the way they are.

For example, there are some risotto recipes, of course, but also a couple of pages describing all the regional variations along with some remembrances from his childhood in the north. And then a couple more pages on the different kinds of rice, going into the history of their cultivation as well as some scientific explanations of what happens to the rice as it cooks. Then more pages on the history of Parmesan and Grana Padano. And only then comes a discussion of risotto technique. And only after all that are a few recipes offered.

By far the most interesting "cook book" I've ever read. Really informative. Highly recommended.
- jim 9-28-2009 8:28 pm [link] [1 ref] [1 comment]

The Ten Most Wanted Resys in New York City Friday, September 18, 2009, by Eater Staff 1) would love too 2) ditto 3) no thanks 4) show up at opening and eat at bar, or stay home w/ take out 5) no thanks 6) ditto 7) walk in when they open 8) would love too but there is lots of great fried chicken in nyc 9) gramercy any day in the front room walk in 10) is the food any good??
- Skinny 9-27-2009 12:15 pm [link] [1 comment]

kinda dumb dear owner and bikini girls


- Skinny 9-27-2009 12:01 pm [link] [1 comment]

sounds good

Civetta
98 Kenmare St
New York, NY 10012
(212) 966-9440
- Skinny 9-27-2009 11:29 am [link] [1 comment]

Seltzer Man Is Out of Action, and Brooklyn Thirsts


- bill 9-26-2009 4:58 pm [link] [7 comments]

Ate at Manresa. Delightful. Familiar ingredients in unfamiliar preparations and combination.
- mark 9-25-2009 6:43 am [link] [2 comments]

In various Brooklyn neighborhoods, one such meal has been served roughly twice a quarter for the better part of 10 years. A restaurant-style dinner for work-crazed urban professionals, it is as steady and simple as it is elegant and rich. It features pork chops grilled and glazed in a reduction of maple syrup and balsamic vinegar, served with soft apple slices coated in same beside a mound of polenta lightened with goat cheese and fragrant with rosemary, beneath a dusting of Clinton-era nostalgia: chopped pecans and candied ginger.

That last bit is what marks the dish as restaurant-style fare, worth aping at home: candied ginger is an inexpensive gild, the sort of marker that allows a chef to charge $21 a plate instead of $17. The man who devised this one is Matthew Kenney, the once-white-hot celebrity chef who opened (and saw close) a gaggle of popular scene-restaurants in the 1990s and early oughts: his Matthew’s, on the Upper East Side, begat, among others, Bar Anise, Mezze, Monzu, Canteen, Commune, Commissary. They are all gone now.

“I probably had it on the menu at Commune,” he said of the pork in a telephone interview from Oklahoma City, where he was in the process of opening a “living foods” restaurant and education center called 105degrees. Now a kind of raw-food entrepreneur, Kenney is a partner in the organic Free Foods cafes in Midtown Manhattan; he has helped develop restaurants in Madrid and Winter Park, Fla. He hasn’t eaten meat in a long time.

- bill 9-20-2009 6:38 pm [link] [1 comment]

Now is the time to snip those basil leaves off of your plants, whip up some pesto, and freeze it. That way, you’ll still be eating local even if you can’t get to a farmers’ market during the winter months. Most cooks have different methods of making and freezing pesto. Some rinse the basil leaves first while others swear it will turn them brown; some omit the cheese before freezing while others omit the garlic. There is no magic formula; however, after years of making and freezing pesto, I have settled on a few tricks that work for me. I hope they work for you too.

- bill 9-19-2009 2:32 pm [link] [4 comments]

any body ever chew teaberry gum. ever do the teaberry shuffle?

any body remember a birch, bark or root-beer flavored chewing gum.

one more time!
- bill 9-12-2009 10:16 pm [link] [3 comments]

dont know if this was mentioned before but i walked past it the other day:

japanese premium beef
- dave 9-12-2009 1:21 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

any good pizzeria near times square?
- linda 9-10-2009 5:56 pm [link] [add a comment]

Closed
THE JOHN DORY in Chelsea.
ELETTARIA on West Eighth Street.
((the john dory was a delish and prob very expensive to open spot that looked wacky to say the least owned by spotted pig and mario batali and del posto owners......))
- Skinny 9-09-2009 11:44 am [link] [1 comment]

very excited to go (nytimes below)

Kajitsu
414 East Ninth Street (First Avenue), East Village, (212) 228-4873.

New Yorkers have recently embraced the animal pleasures of Japanese food, like pork-belly ramen and chicken-tendon yakitori. But now comes Kajitsu, an elegantly sobering reminder of Japan’s ascetic traditions. On entry, only gleaming wood surfaces and a naked slab of counter for the chef, Masato Nishihara, are visible.

“Vegan” is the closest term, though an inadequate one, for his shojin ryori, or “devotion cuisine,” derived from Buddhist temples near Kyoto.

The menu changes entirely each month, though thin house-made soba noodles are a constant. There are four-course ($50) and eight-course ($70) menus: the last includes dessert and hand-frothed green tea.

In each course, vegetables, from earth and ocean, are twisted and turned, salted and seasoned, spun and cut and carved into jewels, like a slice of sparkling aspic with tiny summer vegetables embedded in it. For saltiness and spark, it’s served in a pool of soy sauce seasoned with yuzu; tiny jun sai, a freshwater vegetable with a natural casing of jelly, also bobbed about. A tomato course (the chef is experimenting with local as well as Japanese vegetables) included poached tomatoes with dots of Japanese mustard, one cape gooseberry (a botanical relative) and a white swirl of noodles made from yam starch in a sweet tomato sauce.

Some were interesting and delicious; some seemed pointless. Occasionally, revelatory flavors explode in the mouth; a creamy soup of white miso and celery root, ornamented with a pink slice of radish, was a perfect dish. But others — notably the desserts, with their sticky textures and grassy flavors — will only mystify New York palates.

For those who mindlessly enjoy dinner rather than study it, Kajitsu is more of a curiosity than a canteen. But for vegans, and students of the endlessly unfolding Japanese food scene, it is a must.

- Skinny 9-04-2009 5:38 pm [link] [4 comments]

it was either this or a bud light. ok, not true. theres miller lite and coors light in cans too.
- dave 8-27-2009 12:38 am [link] [2 comments]

with a tip from a friend I broke my usual Chinese spot(s) to try a new one and out in Brooklyn 18th Ave, it was fantastic Sichuan......the eggplant app and fried flounder main were the best Chinese food I have had in NYC, the cuke app beat any before, pea shoots same, only the chicken dish was sub par to Spicy and Tasty and Grand Sichuan to me....

its byob, we were the only gringo's, and I will be eating there more often, maybe we all go out one day....

Bamboo Pavillion 6902 18th Ave, open 3 years now

Voice Article
- Skinny 8-26-2009 2:15 pm [link] [4 refs] [3 comments]

top 100 indie restaurants grossed over 1.5Billion not up much from 2008 if anyone cares to know what they are its here

- Skinny 8-26-2009 2:04 pm [link] [1 comment]

bruni q and a


- bill 8-26-2009 1:31 pm [link] [add a comment]

Jeffrey, our butcher
- b. 8-24-2009 11:02 pm [link] [add a comment]