First signs of spring has hit the green-market, picked up the first batch of ramps over the weekend!
See what we did with them here!
Monday, April 5, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Brooklyn Views
We were over at Jason's place down in Financial District last weekend, visiting Camille and their newborn Maddox!(amazingly cute!) We had a great night excluding the crane that almost fell on my car~ Was able to get on the roof and take pics of my favorite view!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
San Francisco Treat
The wife and I headed to San Francisco for a little weekend getaway/food feast. On our trip we managed to try as much food as possible and the following highlighted our culinary itinerary:
Jai Yun - 12 Course prefix chef's selection dinner for 2 @ the $80.00/pp level. We had a restaurants.com $75 dollar voucher to make this meal a steal.
Mama's on Washington Sq - French toast sampler (amazing in-house bread), dungeness crab omlette with avocado's and Brie
R & G Lounge - Crispy salt and pepper dungeness crabs
Leland Tea Comany - Cream Tea: (organic chai) two scones, double devon cream and fruit!
The Slanted Door - Modern Vietnamese focusing on local and ecological farmed meat and produce. We had their Crispy Imperial Rolls, dungeness crab cellophane noodles, shaking beef (filet mignon), meyer lemon meringue tart and blood orange sorbet with thai basil sauce.
Ferry plaza farmers market - Cow girl creamery / Boccalone Salumeria / Hog Island / Blue Bottle Coffee / Il Cane Rosso / Out the door / Acme Bread / Far west fungi /
Chez Panisse Cafe - Alice Waters famed restaurant - Pizzetta, sea bass tare tare, pork leg, chicken paillard, squid, lime sherbet, pink lady apple and sour cherry tart, and caramel cream puffs.
Check out Angie's Blog for more pics!
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Ippudo + Minca updates
Update: 1/26/2010
I was able to get into Ippudo as a walk in single at the bar, with no wait. I promptly sat down and got to business and ordered a Sapporo, Hirata Buns (Pork) , and the Shiromaru Hakata Classic Ramen. Overall the bun's lacked the finesse of Momofuku's buns, and the classic ramen was good, great broth and nice textured noodles however over priced at $14 dollars with only a small portion of their simmered berkshire pork (you can get an additional serving for $4 dollars). Overall good quality but you are mostly paying for the atmosphere.
Update: 3/7/2010
We decided to hit up Minca again (no wait) for some ramen and to order their Toroniku Ramen (slow cooked pork belly with fresh cabbage) along with their basic (pork) broth and thick noodles, as it was sold out the last time we visited. I must say that it was the best bowl of ramen I have had in NY hands down. It is one of their more expensive items on the menu at $14 dollars but the portion was overwhelming, with a large bowl of soup, noodles and approximately 2-3 large pieces of melt-in-your-mouth pork belly. A must try if you want to get the best ramen in the city.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Menchanko-tei
www.menchankotei.com
131 East 45th Street
New York, NY 10017-3131
(212) 986-6805
We were in midtown the other night and still having the "ramen" craze I decided to go check out Menchanko-Tei. I heard they made very good hand pulled ramen noodles so I decided to give it a shot. Once we got there there was a 10 min wait, once we were seated we took a look at the menus and they had a big variety different Japanese food to choose from.
We started with their winter special $1.99 hot sake, a spicy salmon roe rice ball, agedashi tofu, and shrimp gyoza. The rice ball and tofu were excellent, however the gyoza lacked flavor and were stuffed only with 2 pieces cut up shrimp.
I chose the "Hakata Ramen", which was their ultra thin ramen noodles in a rich pork broth topped with simmered pork slices, black mushrooms, red ginger, and scallions. The broth was very tasty not overly porky, the noodles to us tasted more like lo-mein then ramen, not sure if that is good or bad. The topping were just ok, the pork was a bit to lean for me, I prefer a little fat. We also tried a bowl of their "Shoyu Ramen"l, their traditional tokyo style thin ramen noodles in a soy sauce broth with the same topping as above. Again the broth seemed just ok and nothing to special, not overly salty. One thing is, I did not leave a MSG headache after dinner.
All in all Menchanko-tei is a good ramen shop, with a wide variety menu, and good prices.
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