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Try the Okara- it's delicious. Braised in shoyu & shot through w. tender bits of shiitake mushrooms, carrots, & snow peas, the okara has a crumbly, slightly spongy texture. Give it a try!
The Spinach pie is a must-have: Shiny, crackly layers of filo dough are crammed full with carefully seasoned puréed spinach and dusted with dried herbs that taste strongly of oregano.
Himalayan menu, which contains all sorts of breads & meats, but also offers lots for vegetarians including sel roti (a bread shaped like a big ring) & bhatmas chiura (beaten rice & toasted soybeans)
Try Chicken Mole Enchiladas-homemade mole on a half-chicken, or on three chicken enchiladas ($11.50), along w/ achiote rice, refried beans topped w/ crumbly cheese, & a dab of sauce-style guacamole
Super Heebster: heat, umami, smoke, salt, cream cheese whipped to ethereal heights, crunchy, snappy roe, silky, voluptuous whitefish salad and bagel w/ nice, shiny crust & pleasantly chewy innards.
Try Bun bo Hue soup-brick-red beef broth tastes of long simmering, spiked w/ chiles, lemongrass, & shrimp paste & great hunks of braised beef & slithery rice vermicelli, along w/ scallions & cilantro.
Get The Beauty: house-cured lox is silky & plush, w/ capers scattered across surface. Paper-thin shavings of purple onion on cream cheese provide a nice counterpoint to the more robust ingredients.
Try the brown butter, corn, and mushroom linguine-auced in a rich slurry of brown butter and corn milk, which pools at the bottom of the plate, where it's soaked up by feathery chanterelles.
Try the Potato Flatbread-potatoes are pan-fried with thyme, cilantro, and onions that have a sweet, caramelized sheen, and the whole thing on flatbread is topped w/ a flurry of crunchy scallions
The leaf-based sauces of Guinea are indeed thrilling, like what Popeye shot into his mouth, only better. Or go bright orange with chicken in palm oil sauce. Leia mais.
Frying up the best chicken in Williamsburg, and some of the best in Brooklyn, Pies-N-Thighs represents a sort of hipsterized Southern diner, a "meat and three" place that delivers "meat and one." Leia mais.
A fascinating French wine list is just one of the lures that might draw you, fish-like, to this neighborhood bistro, just one stop into Queens on the 7 train. Leia mais.
For more than 100 years, Barney Greengrass has been New York's quintessential deli, specializing in homemade smoked sturgeon, nova, lox, whitefish, and other fishy treats. Leia mais.
This is a great stopping place on your circumnavigational tour of Staten Island. Leia mais.
Go after 5 p.m. when, first off, they bring a lovely tray of small dishes and let you take your pick. Try the cumin-laced beet salad, the verdant tabouli, or the carrot salad. Leia mais.
The menu features good Chicago red hots, eggy (or perhaps just yolky) frozen custard, salty crinkle-cut fries, and best of all, wonderful burgers, reputedly ground from a combo of brisket and sirloin. Leia mais.
The french fries served with saffron aioli are killer. Strictly vegan, except for the smoothies. Leia mais.
No better introduction to Korean dubu cookery than the classic soybean meal, featuring three bowls: flocculent freshly made curds, an intriguing white soybean porridge, and a fermented soybean soup. Leia mais.
This is a great brunch place! Try one of two dozen hot and cold mezes, including a olive spread flavored with capers, and dried Armenian sausage sojuk. Leia mais.
The favorite snack is the panelle special, layering smoky chickpea fritters on a homemade roll slathered with ricotta and sprinkled with Parmesan. The pastas are distinguished too. Leia mais.
