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AlwaysInformed: Where to Eat the 10-Most Googled Recipes

Yesterday, Serious Eats posted a link to Restaurant & Institution’s Top 10 Most-Googled Recipes of 2009. Cooking at home for yourself or for friends can be a lot of fun, but you can also participate in the trend by tasting these popular dishes at these great New York restaurants.

 

1) Chili

From Wildwood Barbecue: Jailhouse Chili.

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SEARCH: Recommended New York City Cheesecake

Carnegie Deli’s Super Delicious Rugelach Cheesecake with Creamy Milk Chocolate

You can use AlwaysHungryNY.com’s Very Advanced Search Engine to find your favorite restaurants, but you can also use it to discover restaurants that serve your favorite foods. Have a hankering for a hunk of Cheesecake? Enter the term cheesecake, and our search engine will generate a list of restaurants we recommend for cheesecake. Whether you’re looking for cheesecake or Carbonara, it’s just another way in which AlwaysHungryNY.com can ensure that you never eat an insignificant meal or dessert.

‘cesca Mascarpone Cheesecake w/Orange Cream & Orange Brittle ($10.00)

Artisanal Artisanal Cheesecake with Pecan Praline & Caramel Sauce ($11.50)

Babbo Pumpkin Cheesecake with Golden Raisins, Crème Fraiche & Saba ($12.00)

Carnegie Deli Plain ($8.95), Strawberry ($9.95), w/Rugelach & Chocolate ($9.25)

davidburke Townhouse David Burke’s Cheesecake Lollipop Tree ($18.00)

The General Greene Lemon Vanilla Cheesecake ($7.00)

ChikAlicious Fromage Blanc Island “Cheese Cake,” part of a 3-course, $14 dessert tasting

Il Mulino Ricotta Cheesecake ($18.00)

Strip House Cheesecake ($14.00)

Pepolino Ricotta Cheesecake ($10.50)

HungryChefs: Chefs Love Lupa, Mixed on Hot Dogs

Roasted Pork Shoulder “Gyro” with Pickled Cucumber & Yogurt from Anthos at Street & Savory

Some of the country’s best chefs attended Citymeals-on-Wheels’ Street & Savory Tasting Event. We’ve already brought you pictures of all the dishes and rounded up our favorite plates, but we were also able to speak with the chefs.

Our questions were obvious: What are you AlwaysHungry for? Which New York City restaurant do you crave? And in keeping with the night’s theme: what would you serve if you opened your own street cart? Some chefs took the easy route, promoting dishes they had prepared for the evening, others were quite creative with their responses.

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AHNY: Top 5 Matzoh Balls? Nope, Just Three

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.

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AlwaysPartying: Hash for the Holiday

Shake up your St. Patricks Day, with some Corned Beef Hash. You might have to skip your morning meeting (what a shame), but here’s what’s Always Hungry Approved:

Olives NY : Corned Beef Hash with Two Eggs (any style) & Toast, $12.00 (breakfast & brunch)

2nd Avenue Deli: Corned Beef Hash, $17.95

Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop Two Eggs (any style) with Corned Beef Hash, $5.00

Jarnac: Maryann’s Corned Beef & Hash with Fried Eggs, Red Potatoes, Caramelized Onions & Toast, $15.00 (brunch)

Perilla: Prime Corned Beef Hash & Eggs, $13.00 (brunch)

Stage Restaurant: Hot Sandwich with Two Eggs & Corned Beef Hash, $3.50

Carnegie Deli: Corned Beef Hash with Fried Egg, 16.95

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