Fun is usually not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of tasting menus. Expensive? For sure. Exciting? I hope so. Tasty? Better be. Show-offy? Often. So when I went to
Torrisi Italian Specialties for Rich Torrisi's freshly designed $125 twenty-course tasting menu, I couldn't help but wonder: could the chef's characteristic sense of humor make such a marathon meal a fun experience?
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Poi Doughnuts ($8) at
Lani Kai come eight to an order—tiny, puffy orbs dusted in powdered sugar.
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We were big fans of Jamaican restaurant
Miss Lily's when it opened last year, so we expected good things of the adjacent sandwich shop and juice bar
Melvin's Juice Box.
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Housemade doughnuts are $2.75 each at the recently opened
Bowery Diner. They're hefty creatures of the yeast variety, on the oily but oh-so-satisfying side.
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Just the other day we dove into this
Salted Pistachio Religeuse ($5), a downright delicious take on the French classic.
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Ceci-Cela offers a variety of fruit danishes, including pear, plum, and apricot, but the one I keep returning for is their
Cherry Danish ($3).
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I had heard people gushing about
La Sirene for quite a long time, as it has a stellar reputation for being a cute, French, BYOB date spot. And that it certainly is—but consider yourself warned upfront that it is decidedly a splurge, so perhaps you should take extra precautions to make sure you really like your date first.
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This salad ($14) could really win a Miss Beet Salad pageant. Fork up the watermelon-resembling hunks of candystripe beets and the darker, sweeter red beets. They're all lined in a row, mingling with sunflower seeds and sitting on a cool yogurt packed with fresh herbs like dill and chives.
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Motorino's Mathieu Palombino has a knack for genre-hopping, having left fine dining to open one of our favorite pizzerias in New York. So it didn't seem that unlikely when Palombino decided to open a diner on the Bowery.
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Years after the show ended, Sex and the City tours keep some restaurants alive.
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