314 West 11th Street at Greenwich Street 212/620.0393 about $100 for two, with a few drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Updated, 2007: A second floor space has opened, but I still waited two and a half hours on a Saturday even after I put my name down at 6:45pm It’s no surprise that ...
6 Clinton Street off Houston 212/674.6300 about $80 for two, with two drinks, without tip ♥ Update, 2007: The space is for sale Chubo’s offerings are familiar but the combination of all of them makes the menu a little confused. The hamachi was served two ways: tartare and the other, glazed with teriyaki. They had ...
I loved reading Diana Abu-Jaber’s The Language of Baklava. Not only did I read about how it was like to grow up with a Jordanian father and an American mother, I also learned how to cook some of her family’s dishes. Ingredients: 1 cup of fine bulgur wheat, soaked in water for about an hour ...
I love how rich the green of this soup is. If your guest is adamant about eating soup with meat, brown some bacon and chop to smaller pieces. Add the bacon at the same time you garnish the soup with the asparagus tips. Ingredients: vegetable stock 1 bunch of asparagus, chopped, reserving the tips 1 ...
Vegetable stock? Even the biggest carnivore would want a simple soup without meat. Ingredients: leeks, greens only, roughly chopped carrot, peeled and chopped celery stalk, chopped parsley branches bay leaf salt and olive oil 1. Sauté leeks in a stock pot with hot olive oil. Add and lightly brown the rest of the ingredients. Add ...