PrintMeet & Eat: Tom Colicchio
Name: Tom Colicchio
Location: New York
Occupation: Chef and restaurant owner
Everyone has a go-to person they call for restaurant recommendations. Who's yours? No one in particular.
What is your favorite meal of the day and where do you go for it? Breakfast at home (peace and quiet).
Is there anything you wish you could cook better? Thai food.
Favorite comfort food? Sunday gravy.
Guilty pleasures? Ice cream.
Describe your perfect meal. There's no such thing.
Food you won't eat? Okra and sea cucumbers.
What would you like to try but haven't yet? Street food in Vietnam.
Most memorable New York City meal? My first fine-dining experience at Pierre au Tunnel, in 1982.
Best pizza in the city? Una Pizza Napoletana.
Favorite burger? The Schlow Burger at Radius, Boston, or chef Sang Yoon's burger at Father's Office in Santa Monica, California.
Favorite bagel? Ess-A-Bagel.
Best late-night eats? Spotted Pig
What is New York missing, foodwise? Street food.
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11 Comments:
Tom Colicchio and that head security guy from the Jerry Springer show are twins separated at birth.
http://i30.tinypic.com/33xkhlh.jpg
Southern_bella at 3:27PM on 06/10/08
@ Southern_Bella - But so much cuter!
Carosone at 4:39PM on 06/10/08
New York is missing street food???? What is he, nuts?
mepm231 at 4:44PM on 06/10/08
Gosh Tom, I thought you'd have a little more to say! very, um, succinct answers! Tough interview....
Cary at 4:52PM on 06/10/08
@mepm231
NYC is seriously missing street food...
bravian at 5:21PM on 06/10/08
@Carosone, I completely agree, but the resemblance is uncanny!
and in reply to Tom's answers... NY isn't missing street food, there was this one time when I was in NYC between classes and sitting on a window ledge on a nice day, I saw a pretzel cart and his wares spilled out onto the dirty streets, the vendor looked around, picked them all up, put them back on the cart and kept on moving... now THAT is street food.
haven't had one since. *blech*
Southern_bella at 5:22PM on 06/10/08
Pretzels on the street aside, there is some pretty amazing street food in New York City... if you include the outer boroughs (like Jackson Heights) it may even be the best in the world, taking into account how many different cultures are present and accounted for in this city's street food scene.
Zach Brooks at 5:51PM on 06/10/08
@Cary, my thoughts exactly. A man of few words.
I like the Meet & Eat features. Keep 'em coming.
holdthemayo at 6:30PM on 06/10/08
Sounds like Tom got up on the wrong side of the bed...or is he that bland.
elaine nan at 9:42PM on 06/10/08
You think NYC's missing street food, you should see Chicago. Thanks in part to Mayor Daley, we don't even have hot dog vendors on the streets anymore.
me3dia at 6:02PM on 06/13/08
Maybe he meant that we have sreet foods from other places but very few native New York eats?
If so, a piddling distinction.
annien at 5:39PM on 06/14/08