For the summer months, there's a rotating menu of cold soups, the best of which is a creamy, chilled
yellow tomato puree finished with avocado salsa. The salsa is really just a big spoonful of diced avocados, but it's a perfect pairing for the tomato, and very summer- and vegetarian-appropriate.
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[Photo: Kathy YL Chan] Every Thursday morning, I wake up with a now-familiar sort of giddy excitement in my stomach—because every Thursday, Olive's in Soho features the same vegetarian sandwich special. And this sandwich, utterly meatless, is delicious beyond...
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Or.. "Meeting My Feta on Ninth Avenue" Editor's note: It's time for another dispatch from Serious Eats community member BaHa, aka Barbara Hanson, who checks in now and again about the various one-of-a-kind food stores and markets in New York....
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Cured olive shortbread This cookie is the underdog of cookies. In terms of looks alone, Abraço's cured olive shortbread doesn't have the chocolate bacon hoo-haa New York confections have taken to tarting themselves up with lately. Like its more...
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