Always Hungry: The Restaurant List
Jeff Zalaznick — January 05, 2010
Dishes from The Always Hungry Restaurant List.
If I had to choose, what restaurants would I take with me into 2010? Off the top of my head, what places do I know that I will choose to return to in the coming year? These are the questions that I asked myself as I thought about this year’s restaurant list. As I made the list, I have made sure that it not only reflects what restaurants to go to, but that it also lets you know exactly what to eat when you get there. As always, our goal is to arm readers with the information that they will need in order to have the best eating experiences possible. This list is a guide to a slice of the Always Hungry life. It is a roundup that will help you unleash your inner fat kid to the fullest in the New Year. If you have not tasted all of the dishes mentioned below, then you have a lot of work to do, but if you start now, you have a whole year to make it happen. So, without further ado, I present The Always Hungry Restaurant List: A Strategic Guide To New York Eating. Keep this close in 2010, and it will ensure that you Never Eat An Insignificant Meal Again.
AlwaysHolidays: On the Eleventh Day of Christmas
Arthur Bovino and Maryse Chevrière — December 22, 2009
Technically, the Twelve Days of Christmas don’t start until Christmas Day, but we’re already in the spirit. To celebrate, here’s the carol, ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ AlwaysHungry-style, featuring some dishes we tasted in 2009 that we’d be willing to sing about.
Eleven Pipers Piping. Hmm, pipers piping. Pies a-piping? Already have pies. Wait! Where there are pipes there’s smoke! Smoked dishes!
And so, our Christmas food carol begins:
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my waiter brought to me… Eleven tasty smoked things,
Left to right: The Smile’s Nova with Lemon Caper Cream Cheese, L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon’s Caramelized Eel Layered with Smoked Foie Gras, Aureole’s Grilled Burger with Smoked Bacon.
AlwaysPartying: Loving the L.E.O.
Jeff Zalaznick — June 03, 2009
It’s National Egg Day today. Yay. So let’s celebrate it with a classic New York staple: The L.E.O. (For the totally uninformed, this stands for lox, eggs, and onions.) At this point in time, it should probably be called a N.E.O (with Nova), since lox is really too salty to use in the dish, but for the sake of history, and the ability to call my favorite breakfast and my uncle by the same name, let’s stick with L.E.O. Now, in my opinion there is only one restaurant that makes an acceptable L.E.O., and it is the finest in class. This is Barney Greengrass, and there is no reason to ever discuss any other restaurant when it comes to this topic. A N.E.O, sliced tomatoes, sturgeon and bagel. It’s a Molotov cocktail, baby. It could kill you it is so good.
Since there is only one place worth eating it out, the best thing to do is make it yourself. The guidance I’m going to give you below will be extremely helpful in your quest to achieve the ideal L.E.O.
AHNY: Top 5 Matzoh Balls? Nope, Just Three
Jeff Zalaznick & Arthur Bovino — April 07, 2009
In honor of Passover, AlwaysHungry set out to find New York’s top five matzoh balls. What we discovered surprised us: there is no Top 5. New York City, despite having the world’s second largest Jewish population outside Tel Aviv, has only three knaidlech contenders. Sure, it was close between the top two but for the most part, outside these top three contenders, everything else was for the birds.
Noodles and dill, carrots and celery—we decided not to consider these varying soup ingredients as determining factors. This is about matzoh balls. After all, competing philosophies on how best to construct them are distracting enough (seltzer or water? oil or schmaltz? how long should the eggs be beaten? seasoned inside or out? boiled in salt water or chicken broth?). For Top 5 purposes, we judged based on three criteria: texture, flavor and appearance.
Continue Reading About Matzoh Ball Mania… >>
The Round-Up: NY Magazine’s 20 Tastiest Morning Meals
July 08, 2008
As an homage to the most important meal of the day, New York Magazine has compiled list of the twenty best places to get a satisfying morning bite. (6/1)
Best Breakfast, Period: Egg
Chinese Breakfast: Big Wong King Restaurant
Croissants: Almondine
Panino: ‘ino
Pancakes: Clinton St. Baking Company & Restaurant
Latin American Breakfast: El Malecon
Locavore Breakfast: iCi
Italian Breakfast: Morandi
French Toast: 202
Burrito: La Esquina Taqueria
Coffee-centric Breakfast: Abraco Espresso
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