Mushrooms

A Voce's Olivier Flosse: "The Cocktail Is as Dangerous as a Kiss."

I was running late for a meeting. "On my way!" I texted. "Should I sent u an white horse to welcome u"? I didn't quite know the sender well enough to know how seriously to take the request. There are, after all, white horses in Central Park, which is where I was headed. "Please!" I replied as I l ... More >>

Mercer Kitchen Chef Christopher Beischer's New York Strip and Bulich Mushrooms (RECIPE)

In this week's Village Voice, Mercer Kitchen Chef de Cuisine Christopher Beischer pontificates on how he uses Hudson Valley fungus in the kitchen, and why he prefers greenmarket mushrooms to those available from big purveyors. Now, Beischer shares a carnivorous recipe incorporating shiitakes and e ... More >>

Hudson Valley Mushrooms Hit the Table

What To Do With a Wild Pheasant

Here's what the wild pheasant looked like after I yanked it from the freezer this morning. State laws prohibit restaurants from serving real wild game, and all the avians and other animals that masquerade as such are usually just "farm-raised game." Oxymoronic, isn't it? As such, that wild boar r ... More >>

What Can You Do With a Truffle?

This black truffle was purchased recently at Chelsea Market. The loamy smell is intense, and it comes wrapped in a paper towel. But it looks like a lump of coal. This is the season when area specialty food stores carry fresh black truffles, and sometimes white ones, too. You can get them at Chelse ... More >>

Where To Splurge During Truffle Season

Truffle season is in full swing, and restaurants are doling them out with the fungi's notoriously high price tags. If you're a truffle fiend, indulge in a tasting menu. For the newb, maybe a small dish or one of these special deals is your best bet, but the delicacy is best served in a steaming plat ... More >>

Because Bulldogs Can't Find Truffles in Tompkins Square Park

Since he found no luck truffle-hunting with a bulldog in Tompkins Square Park (obviously), Frank Prisinzano planned a do-over in Piedmont -- with a trained truffle hound. Prisinzano, the restaurateur and meatball-slinging chef behind the downtown Italian restaurants Frank, Lil' Frankie's, Supper, ... More >>

Lotus Blue's Moon Festival Banquet On Sunday

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is this Sunday and Lotus Blue, a modern Yunnan eatery in Tribeca, is celebrating with a Moon Festival Banquet. It's ten courses for $88 per person and $68 if you're opting for the vegetarian meal. The banquet will be prepared by Lotus Blue's executive chef Kian Lam K ... More >>

Cooking With Frozen Porcinis From Buon Italia

Here is what they look like just out of the freezer case. [See More Market Watch: Mountain Sweet Berry Farm Sells Tristar Strawberry Sorbet | Wild Bush Blueberries] Categorized taxonomically as Boletus edulis, porcinis are one of the world's most flavorful mushrooms. They're indispensible to the ... More >>

Serendipity 3 Serving World's Most Expensive Burger

What's in the world's most expensive burger? Apparently Japanese Waygu beef, 10-herb white truffle butter, Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, cheddar cheese, hand-made and cave-aged for 18 months by famed cheesemaker James Montgomery of Somerset, England. Plus shaved black truffles, a fried ... More >>

Romera: Looking Back at the Brief Life of New York's Neurogastronomy Restaurant

Over the weekend, Romera, the "neurogastronomy" restaurant located in the basement of the Dream Hotel, shuttered after only six months in business. For those who had eaten at the restaurant recently, the news didn't come as any big surprise. Although the chef, Dr. Miguel Sanchez Romera, had modifie ... More >>

Caffè Storico: The Museum of Fine Dining

Venice lends some savor to the New-York Historical Society

5 Ways to Carboload at Caffè Storico

For this week's review, I paid a visit to Caffè Storico, the new eatery inside the New-York Historical Society. It's a gorgeous restaurant, all white and marble, and seemingly influenced by Dutch modernism and American colonialism. Yet the grub's from neither ilk -- it's Italian, with a slight Vene ... More >>

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Birreria Invents a New Kind of French Fry

Moist and dense on the inside, crisp on the outside I'd never seen anything quite like it before: dense, skin-on, yellow-fleshed fingerling potatoes parboiled, smashed, then fried in good oil until the edges and the exposed parts turned brown and crunchy. With a little sea salt, they were unforget ... More >>

Make Chef Yuhi Fujinaga's Wild Mushroom Croquetas

Yuhi Fujinaga​Filled with savory ham, chicken, beef, veal, or vegetables -- and often made creamy with a healthy helping of bechamel -- croquetas have long been a popular plate, whether served on the Iberian peninsula or as far away as Indonesia. At Bar Basque (839 6th Avenue), Chef Yuhi Fuj ... More >>

Back to Black Truffles

KjundstormA few slivers of this will set you back a couple of paychecks.​A few months ago we brought news of the white truffle occupation of Manhattan. Well, now white's on the decline and black truffles are making their way into your macaroni and cheese. Only this time, everyone seems to be jumpi ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Schnitzel Fest, Meat Week

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Schnitzelfest Loreley Restaurant & Biergarten November 5-10 Get all the schnitzel you can handle at this five-day fest. Chef Torsten Ziebold has come up with a menu of 11 different ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: A Talk and Tasting, a Halloween Menu

Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Kutsher's Talk & Tasting Tenement Museum October 24 at 6: 30 p.m. In anticipation of Zach Kutsher bringing a taste of his Catskills country club to Tribeca this fall, he and his res ... More >>

White Truffles Occupy New York

Lou MannaSD26 gets a fungus.​ Smell that earthy, funky aroma? It's white truffle season once again. Last year Josh Capon's white-truffle-laden burger at B&B was a huge hit, and it's back on the menu this year. The flavor bomb features robiola cheese, truffle oil, and a hand-shaved pile of whi ... More >>

What I Did With My Wild Mushrooms From the New Amsterdam Market: Aborted Entoloma Frittata

Here's about $4 worth of the mushroom called "Snow Shrimp" on the blackboard, but whose real name is "Aborted Entolomas," according to a commenter. Last week Fork in the Road covered the wild mushrooms being newly offered at the New Amsterdam Market. What an array it was, including many that had n ... More >>

The Wild Wild Mushrooms of the New Amsterdam Market

​Bear's head mushrooms look more like polar bears than brown or black bears. With all the rain and general dampness, It's been the best year in memory for hunting wild mushrooms upstate and in the fungus-friendly areas of New England. Not only are the varieties more profuse, but the specime ... More >>

Make Koi's Edamame Dumplings, Like Chef Nick McCoy (Or Eat Them There and Help East Africa)

Edamame Dumplings at Koi​All three Koi locations -- in Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas -- are hosting a fundraising effort this month to help famine victims in East Africa. Through August 14, half the proceeds from the sale of two new menu items will go toward the U.N. World Food Programm ... More >>

Josh Capon of Burger & Barrel Reveals His Favorite Fast Food Burger

Photo courtesy Josh CaponJosh Capon, Equal Opportunist When It Comes to Meat and Seafood​ Josh Capon is a busy man these days, helming both Soho staple Lure Fishbar and his newer venture Burger & Barrel, located on Houston Street. Wanting to know his patty philosophy, we called him up and got ... More >>

World's Most Irritating Restaurant Now Permanently Serving the World's Most Expensive Hot Dog

It looks better than this dog, promise​Perhaps discontented with holding records for selling the world's most expensive ice cream sundae and the world's largest hot chocolate, screaming kiddie mecca Serendipity 3 is now permanently dishing up the world's most expensive hot dog. So what do you ... More >>

Colonie in Brooklyn Heights Offers Dinner and a Show

Brooklyn Heights BlogBrooklyn Heights, Colonie-ized.​Colonie (127 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn Heights), the new restaurant opened by alumni from Public and Double Crown, and funded using Kickstarter, is already bustling on a Saturday night, taking reservations only for groups of five or more. On ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ...

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ...

Make Benoit's Seasonal Local Vegetable Cookpot with Fresh Black Truffle, Courtesy of Chef Philippe Bertineau

Benoit's Seasonal Local Vegetable Cookpot with Fresh Black Truffle​For those who bemoan the scarcity of fresh produce at the farmer's market during the bleak months of a New York winter, don't forget that in France black winter truffle season is in full swing. Benoit is offering the illustriou ... More >>

Papa John's Big Super Bowl Pizza Giveaway; Taco Bell Counter Sues Over Fake Meat Claim

​Papa John's is offering a free pizza to everyone in America if the Super Bowl goes into overtime. But there's a catch: You have to register for the chain's customer loyalty program, "Papa Points," before 11:59 p.m. ET on February 5. [USA Today] The Flying Pig food truck in L.A. is now suing ... More >>

Food Blogger Cries 'Foodie Fatigue,' but Has No Discernible Plans to Stop Blogging

Apparel of the damned.​On this verrry slow news week traditionally reserved for a final onslaught of year-end round-ups/pronouncements, The Chicago Tribune's Christopher Borrelli has bestowed upon the Interweb "a plea for calm." Borrelli, a general assignments reporter writes about food and bl ... More >>

Make Haru's Chicken Udon Soup by Chef Norihiko Aratake

Just like mama used to make.​Forget getting a flu shot this season (unless you're elderly or a baby). Instead, dose yourself with chicken noodle soup. It's Jewish penicillin -- or in this case Japanese. Chef Norihiko Aratake of Haru shares his recipe for Chicken Udon Soup, a restorative recip ... More >>

Urban Sharecropping All the Rage; The City's Best Doughnuts

​Urban sharecropping is the latest twist to the farm-to-table movement, in which homeowners get matched with would-be farmers who don't themselves have gardening space. [Wall Street Journal] Mayor Bloomberg's favorite diner, Viand Café, was slapped with 36 violation points in its latest ins ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Henan Feng Wei in Flushing

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema discovers unfussy, "amazing!" Northern Chinese at Henan Feng Wei in Flushing. Sam Sifton pokes a bit of fun at expense-account-friendly Lavo: "The menu is Italian by way of a steakhouse, and if the food isn't totally awesome, the portions are huge. You'll lov ... More >>

Didier Elena of Adour Explains the French and Their Chickens

But he likes him some pastrami sandwiches​ Didier Elena, executive chef of Alain Ducasse's Adour, began work at the St. Regis Hotel's famed restaurant this summer, but is constantly keeping his eyes peeled for seasonal eats with the onset of fall. Yesterday, we got Elena's take on champagne ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Vict ... More >>

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