PrintBest Onion Rings in New York (We're Looking for a Few Good Rings)
I love onion rings. Don't you? I'm talking about real individual, separate-and-more-than -equal rings of fresh onion battered and fried. Crisp, golden brown, slightly puffy, greaseless onion rings.
I'm not talking about bloomin' onions or onion loaves or wispy onion strands. Those have their place. Just not here. So to honor those chefs and cooks who know how to fry real onion rings up right, I'm going to put together a list of killer onion rings in New York. Please help me, as I'm sure I haven't eaten every great onion ring in Gotham.
Here it is, New York's Greatest Hits, onion ring–wise (I'm warning you now. My list isn't very long. I have very high standards when it comes to onion rings).
- Telepan: At lunch and brunch Bill Telepan serves what he calls his "volcano" with his most excellent hamburger. The volcano is a bunch of onion rings stacked horseshoe-style surrounded by a mound of superb french fries.
- Porter House New York: Michael Lomanaco makes the most beautiful burnished brown onion rings dipped in buttermilk and fried up just right so that the onion ring doesn't separate from its sheath when you pop it into your mouth.
- The Good Fork: Brooklyn's best onion rings (unless someone tells me otherwise) are the tempura-battered beauties found in Red Hook at the Good Fork. These babies come with the Good Fork's excellent hamburger, but they make a perfect side dish for just about anything else on the menu here.
Other good onion rings I have vague memories of include those at the Bread Bar at Tabla and at Stand (which are pictured above).
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7 Comments:
Blue Smoke used to make great onion rings, but stopped making them because they were too labor intensive. It took two gus & tied up a fryer for too much time. Too bad because they were great. BLT (empire - Steak, burger, etc.) make a pretty respectable ring too.
hondo3777 at 10:48AM on 10/24/07
Stand makes a GREAT onion ring. Great burgers too, except for that bun. I think I heard they may have switched the bun, but I'm afraid to go back after what I wrote on A Hamburger Today.
Adam Kuban at 11:02AM on 10/24/07
i really like the onion rings at ny burger company. they're always freshly made to order, a little greasy, a little salty, and plenty crisp.
i'd have to say, though, that the best onion rings i've ever had are at mr. bartley's burger cottage, on mass avenue in cambridge. their burgers are pretty fabulous, too.
cybercita at 11:02AM on 10/26/07
i love the onion rings at Soho Park. They are made with juicy red onions, and fried to a crisp in a buttermilk batter. they give you a choice of dipping sauces and you can have two free- my favorites are the spicy sambal ketchup and the smoked paprika aoili. i wrote about these, and other onion rings on my blog- traderjanki.wordpress.com
traderjanki at 10:32AM on 10/27/07
Dressler
Jack_Barber at 6:07PM on 11/09/07
Jack, I so want to eat at Dressler. How's everything else on the menu?
Ed Levine at 6:13PM on 11/09/07
Many years later -- menu's I'd say pretty uniformly good. The steak w/ short rib etc is good. Fish tends to be good. The ravioli appetizer is excellent. The fried artichoke salad app is great. (but a little eh in the non-fried version.)
Good bartenders, nice cocktail list. And the onion rings are v good.
All in all a good restaurant. I live in the neighborhood and eat there maybe once a month. To me it doesn't really compare to Marlow. If I could only go to one restaurant I would pick Marlow (right down the street) w/o a second thought. As it is I prob go to Dressler once for every 3-4 visits to Marlow.
Jack_Barber at 6:25PM on 12/14/07