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Blue Hill NYC: 3 great courses of veggies/dairy/egg products and 2 were extra fab: a chestnut flour?? and delicata squash ravioli w/ arugula puree and "this mornings egg" which came with schrooms and lettuce broth, the flesh eaters arround me loved the venison and the crab....
Mas (farmhouse): I have never been here and it was off my radar, but we started with raw seafood and the Taylor Bay's served with stuff I cant recall is hands down dish of the year 07 so far, stunning, reminded me of how good these sea candies are (like at the old Union Pacific). The rest of the meal was super, great wine list, interesting up-market crowd.
Can a bottle of wine really be worth $700? Slate's Mike Steinberger this so:
What a nose—hazelnut, oatmeal, sweet white fruit, smoke, spice, and a touch of nutmeg. Stirring nose. Ripe, spicy, sublime, succulent grapefruit, pear. Perfect balance. Holy shit.
this is exactly how I feel, love this article, I am a flexitarian (with a vegan slant)
Get Skinny #3
2nd colonic today and I feel tired (cant eat much today so that could be part), but gotta rally for tonight/tommorow's party......
6pm: Epsom Salt Drink
8pm: Epsom Salt Drink
10pm: 4oz Olive Oil + 6oz Grapefruit Juice
6am: Epsom Salt Drink
8am: Epsom Salt Drink
My new favorite hamburger in NYC: Royale. $6 burger. Classic lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles setup on a perfect bun.
Might be a good YAT destination.
rip lundy's / sheepshead bay nyc
this place was a trip for sunday brunch. old school buffet in the grand style. friends treated me once. it was great in both senses.
Get Skinny #2....
Lost like 8 pounds already, and today I did my first colonic to prep for the Liver Flush......I feel awesome, cant believe that cutting loose remnants of 7,379 Big Macs could make one feel so good!!!!
No tapeworm was the best news (1 in 5 she said, including her own daughter), but I have a yeast issue, she said that all the wine and pasta (my old 1 and 2 food group) has left a fermentation factory.....
Now I drink apple juice 32oz's for 6 days and a vegan diet to be ready for the FLUSH!!!
we are enjoying under $20 lunch of duck rillettes crepe, acorn squash soup and pressed andouille, mushroom and manchego sandwhich from Paradou Marche- new take out place in Essex Market. Yum and cheap. Also have take home meals like coq au vin, cassoulet, pork tenderloin with merguez choucroute for under $12. Only drawback market closes early and on Sunday.
Best Vegan Meal in NYC??
Bar Masa.....not cheap but was a vegan meal front to back, highlights included a muchroom roll crusted in winter truffle, spicy cucumber tataki, winter root veggie and seaweed salad, and the best yuba I have ever tasted "Masa's mother overnighted it from her favorite producer".
Its a Hangawi + food experience....
Blue Hill Stone Barns: beet burgers and a beet parfait ruled the amuses, the first course was this strange fish that was like a swordfish, served raw, scary....Amazing muchroom/salad and "todays egg" corse was dish of the meal, great winter veggie course and lovely desserts......next meal downtown or uptown I am doing "lacto ovo veggie"
ugly ripe (tomatos)
via jschw
Tried new Momofuku on 2nd and 13th- features something called Ssam which look like wraps- had excellent uni with whipped tofu and black tea tapioca pearls, roasted cauliflower, and a sliced American cured ham (they feature 3). Same interior style and small menu- the ony repeat I remember is the steamed pork buns.
Very good veggie fare last week (friends have said yum yum on the raw fish, meat offerings)...I ate at the Tribeca Branch.....Takahachi 145 Duane and 85 Ave A....
Favorite $6ish lunch spot.....Woorijip 12 W 32nd: its a Korean "deli" (or as they call it Meals "To Go") with kimchee rolls $3, noodles $3, etc
the brownstone diner in jersey city SUCKS! go to hard grove, vips or als but do NOT GO TO THE BROWNSTONE DINER!!!!!!!
Get Skinny 2007:
The plan is to loose 15+ pounds in 2007, clean the liver (so can maintain the regular schedual of getting it dirty??, yes but also to purify all the chemicals to leave a longer life).....
Q1 Plan (if I can pull it off):
Jan 19th (new moon) "Liver Flush"
Mid March a 4 to 8 day "Master Cleanse"
2007 Hit List:
Blue Hill and Blue Hill "Uptown".....so many people have put this at the top of thier NYC best eats in 06.....
Babbo.....its been too many years since I have been (still love Lupa and Otto is my fav 3-4pm quiet late bar lunch)
Tocqueville, Rosanjin, Degustation, Bar Masa......
THE TRY FECTOR
1/2/3) Locanda Vini Olii, Clinton Hill Brooklyn.....the best Italian food in NYC IMHO, I allways eat way too much but its impossible to not want to pig out here, spring menu here is grand cru....
1/2/3) 11 Madison Park....I find the food fantastic, almost every dish.....clean, flavorful, and just rich enough.....love the room
1/2/3) wd~50.....this years awesome gaspacho almost beet out the first version and is of course tied for "dishs of the year", lots of other amazing new treats came out from the lab in 06, sadly I do have to say I miss Sam Mason in the dessert department (his new place will be on this top 10 in 07 for sure)