PrintDay After Thanksgiving Food Exploring
I know that most folks go easy on their digestive systems the day after Thanksgiving, but I usually take the opportunity to go food exploring. I'm planning to hit the following spots today:
The new Jacques Torres shop on Amsterdam between 73rd and 74th Sts. Seems like a perfect day for hot chocolate, doesn't it?
A burger at either Prime Burger (51st between Fifth and Madison) or the Burger Joint at the Parker Meridian (118 W.57th bet. 6th and 7th aves.), since I'm meeting friends there at 2 p.m. anyway.
A pizza or two or four at Una Pizza Napoletana. A fine Washington, D.C., chef Bob Kinkead and one of the nation's great bread bakers Mark Furstenberg, have embarked on a New Jersey-New York-Connecticut pizza tour, and I am meeting them at UPN, where I recently had two extraordinary pies with Adam Kuban.
Anybody else doing anything but eating leftovers today?
It's going to be a great day. I'm hitting all my favorite food groups, chocolate, burgers, and pizza.
Anybody else doing any food exploring today?
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I did my little food tour earlier this week. Banh mi in chinatown...some peking duck...off to brooklyn for a tortas then finished the day off with some ramen and pork buns at momofuku.
ChiefHDB at 5:06PM on 11/23/07
I hit Corner Bistro on Saturday with friends not having been there in a few years. It was certainly no better than JG Mellon, which is probably slightly better. We ordered Bistro Burgers, of course. Although one friend ordered the chicken sandwich (solid). The bacon was nice and crisp, the pickles were perfect hamburger chips, and the lettuce was... pretty ordinary. The tomato was mealy and white, clearly an afterthought. The fries were nice thin matchsticks, but had that 'previously frozen' aftertaste. I found myself longing for the fresh taste of the fries just down the street at Taim. The bun was simple, slightly sweet, and tender.. perfect.
I have been to Stand, where I had the burger with the fried egg on top. That was good, although the real draw for me to return would be the incredible toasted marshmallow milkshake. The burger at Blue Smoke has such a wonderful char on the outside, I'm tempted to call that my favorite NY burger. I haven't been to Brgr, Better Burger, Burger Joint, BLT, or Shake Shack. I also haven't had a Smith & Wollensky or DB burger, although perhaps one day I will.
powermd at 10:39AM on 11/25/07