We've eaten at all sorts of excellent restaurants in the city this year, but what were the dishes that truly stood out? Here are my best bites of 2011.
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In the fashion of
their over-the-top Cubano, the Spotted Pig makes a somewhat ridiculous but spectacularly tasty
grilled cheese.
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Altogether, it's the kind of crunchy, salty, fatty mouthful so many sandwiches aspire to be. Whether or not you're willing to call it a Cuban.
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Any number of guidebooks, newspaper articles, airline magazine roundups, or TV shows can give first-time New York visitors a lengthy eating itinerary. Unfortunately, their recommendations aren't always the best.
The good news? Some oft-visited tourist destinations really
do have great food. Here are our favorites.
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Perhaps it's because we've so often found ourselves at
The Spotted Pig well after midnight that it's never occurred to us as a destination for brunch the next morning. (Even though we're the kind of people who often start dreaming about meals a day before.) But once we were struck by the idea of a Spotted Pig brunch, we couldn't get it out of our heads. For a weekend day's kickoff meal, we usually want (or, well, need) something fatty and salty and gut-satisfyingly delicious, and that's just the kind of food the Spotted Pig excels at.
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Who doesn't love french fries? We've long been looking for New York's best, and decided that the city's fries deserved more than a post—they needed a column of their own. Here's TGI Fry-Day, your weekly dose of deliciousness. Got a...
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Photo from Tasting Table The Union Square Greenmarket draws its fair share of home cooks, tourists, and passing apple-grazers, but the real champion shoppers are professional chefs—or, in the case of the bigger-name establishments, the capable delegates they send out...
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Last night at the Spotted Pig, chef April Bloomfield proved that every inch of a 150-pound piggy—including the parts that, in many cultures, would be considered garbage—can be turned into unctuous food of the gods. Her five-course snout-to-tail dinner,...
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Eater has released Fergus Henderson's special menus for the Spotted Pig this Sunday, and Momofuku Noodle Bar on Monday. Both nights will feature the famous bone marrow and parsley salad from St. John's Restaurant in London, plus deep fried...
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I had the perfect warm weather lunch at the Spotted Pig today. A friend and I split the Cuban Sandwich and the Pork Tonnato. For dessert a bowl of Frog Hollow Farm Cherries in ice water. The Spotted Pig Cubano...
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