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Saturday, February 9, 2013

L'APICIO...the first rule of eat-club is...

Enjoy the members as much as the food. Yes it turns out that I belong to several eat clubs. Who knew?
Yet as I think about it, there are three or four groups that pick restaurants and go together. Kind of like a book club with food...and no reading required....except for the menu, which in the case of Nadine's pick was a joy. And now that she has her own blog(Gastonami.com) she helps to infuse food blogger synergistic enthusiasm into the events. Frank was there with his Troyish Epicurean palate and Harry arrived in grand style. First Street east of The Bowery with a view of Veselka, the upscale, via the plate glass.

                There is an apostrophe in this name and for me it stands for how understated and unpretentious this highly likable pop up club house is. Why spell it out? The food speaks for itself.

The only merit badge i have but my seal of approval

radichiolesly good

Harry on left arrives once assured of safe entry

Our just desert

gnocchi

polenta alla spianatora w shrimp and bacon?


ricotta and cranberries
The blackened tuna with fennel caponata for example is lush. The winter citrus salad with pomegranate and fennel was just the right start. Frank'''s(3 apostrophes) bosc pear radicchio and blue cheese and hazelnut salad looked attractive as well. Nadine dived into the gnocchi with osso buco ragu and the roasted chicken gave frank his fennel dose and well the pictura ipsa loquitor. We chose and loved the olive oil cake, but our waiter apologizing for some table perimeter tightness donated  what i think was the creme fraich panna cotta with pears and red wine pear sorbet and gingersnap biscotti. I should know but i became absorbed in its mesmerizing beauty and then lost focus in the dueling spoons event.

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

ERIC EATS BLAH BLAH BLOG... best of Brooklyn restaurants and beyond and way beyond: DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

ERIC EATS BLAH BLAH BLOG... best of Brooklyn restaurants and beyond and way beyond: DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

DIRT CANDY...vegetarian, not deprivation

Fennel flows
Really. No meat,fish, chicken..i should get over it. This place @ 430 east 9st helped. It is closet sized but spanking fresh looking. The kitchen is galley sized but the whole crew operates like the workings of a shiny pocket watch. Start with the Jalapeno Hush Puppies with maple butter. These are like  a party in a croquette. Fennel sunflower soup with fennel pretzels sounds too fancy spa-like..but tastes foamy and
as welcome as a wicker basket at a picnic in the meadow (oh stuff it if you think this writing is wanting...i am trying and have just started liking this food...talking about it well may come later).
HUSH,hush, sweet puppies

Popcorn pudding







Well consider the grits and tempura poached egg...damn! And next time chard gnocchi..yes there will be a next time, you flesh lovin cynics.


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Friday, January 4, 2013

RUNNER&STONE BAKERY AND RESTAURANT

i LOVE restaurants...especially new ones...new good ones...and at 285 third ave corner of carroll is a stylish new comer with so much going for it and evidence upon which to build hopes. Evidence like the chicken in mushroom broth with mushroom dumplings or  the promise embedded in maple flavored sprouts. Really though some of the best bread wheat/rye bread is the true signature to consider...here the bakery feature of this cozy haven reveals itself. The bar feels personable and equipped. And now we turn to ambiance and story/character...this place has both in spades. The green and recycled features are attractive and almost fireplace like in their ability to make you comfy. The flour sack walls and the reclaimed  water tank wood tables..the basement alcove...and then in the rear bakers racks! They were empty but full that morning with? Tomorrow they will display? The butter is made of melted gold and the olive oil tastes expensive. Prices were reasonable and be aware that this location is no longer just commerce..a cluster of restaurants has mushroomed---sorry thinking of the dumplings.






Signature bread



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Monday, December 31, 2012

Estia's Little Kitchen...1650 Sag Harbor tpke

Egg white and vegi burger burrito

Chorizo and scrambled

Sag Harbor New York...once did great fish dinner at this diner turned amermex gourmet without loss of the dineresque comfort. Breakfast with son and granddaughter new years eve and as son often says "the best I have ever had"...but this time so right...his chorizo and scrambled on tortillas and my egg white with veg burger burrito(don't mock)..and Sophie's face painted pancakes. This lonesome road diner is worth a trip from anywhere. Happy Yearofneweating!

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Tooker Alley 703 Washington Ave bklyn..a bar with likeability

All the shelves are top shelf
The old slides and weathered reclaimed ceiling and mixologist expertise makes this a comfortable way station next to previouslu reviewed Corvo. There is a brief promising bar menu . The menu itself is a quirky reative good read.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

JANE RESTAURANT

100 West Houston 212 254 7000....Its lawyer Jerry Lefcourt's son's
restaurant i would say. No she'd say. Then she goes without me comes back and says great. So we go together and no mushrooms for me she says. Then she tastes my tortolloni. Let me have it she says. Boy Id like to I says. We will go back.

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Mushroom Bolognese Tortolloni