Last Meals

I ate a lot of delicious things on the way out of town.   Below is list of places that I hit in our last week in NYC...

D'Espana
Roberta's
Ushiwakamaru
Convivio
Lil' Frankies
Momofuku Ssam
Momofuku Noodle Bar
Brick Lane Curry House
Dos Toros
Hasaki

I would recommend any of those places to you in a heartbeat, but, seriously, the best place I went to was Mile End.  This is sacrilege and I will likely be kicked out of the clubhouse of lifelong New Yorkers, but this Montreal-style deli is producing some of the finest sandwiches around (and some on bagels shipped in Montreal).  I could try to describe the orgy of sandwiches that were consumed, but I think that the accompanying picture says the most.  Just make sure that if you go you order the smoked meat sandwich and the poutine.  Everything else is a bonus.  If they just served the smoked meat and the poutine the place would still be a destination.  So, go.  Now.  Don't wait.  Get on the train and go there.

Also, make it a point to go to Roberta's.  The Morgan stop on the L.  You won't be disappointed, and if you're feeling saucy the 45-day dry aged rib steak special with marrow bone rivals any steak in NY.  I'm usually a pizza purist but here the thing(s) to get are the non-traditional pies.  The Cortes in particular illustrates what you can do with a round of pizza dough if you don't get too wrapped up in tradition.  A serious shout-out to JD and Theresa for introducing us to this place.

Mile End
97A Hoyt St.
Brooklyn, NY

Roberta's
261 Moore Street
Brooklyn, NY

Eating New York

I'm going to miss the food options. A lot.  I've made a Google docs spreadsheet with all the places I'd like to go and go back to before we get out town. This list is a gluttonous fantasy.  It just keeps growing and growing. This is where is stands at the moment...

1492
11 Madison Park
Al di La
Allen & Delancy
Alto
Anthos
Apiary
Arirang
Back Forty
Barbuto
Bar Piti
Basta Pasta
Becco
Black Iron Burger
Blaue Gans
Bobo
Boca Lupo
Bon Bon Chicken
Cafe Habana
Char No. 4
Clinton Street Bakery
Company
Convivio
Cookshop
Crif Dogs
Crispo
DBGB
Defonte's
Degustation
dell'amina
DeNino's Tavern
D'Espana
Devi
Diablo Royale
Diner
Dogmatic
Double Crown
Egg
Freeman's
Georgia's
Grifone
Haandi
Hill Country
I coppi
Il Buco
inoteca
Ippudo
I Trulli
Izakiya 10
Jane Hotel
Jimmy's #43
Joseph Leonard
Kajitsu
Kampuchea
Katz's
Kefi
Kingswood
Kittichai
Knife and Fork
Kumura Zushi
Kushi
Kyo Ya
La Pequeña Colombia
La Superior
Le Meu
Little Giant
Little Owl
Little Pie Company
Loconda Verde
Los Hermanos
Lucali
Lula's Sweet Apothecary
Luzzo
Macondo
Marea
Mark Burger
Marlow & Sons
Mile End
Minetta Tavern
Motorino
New Pasteur
Nolita House
Northern Spy Market
Number 7 Sub
Num Pang
Pamplona
Peasant
Permenant Brunch
Peter Luger
Piccolo Cucina
Pies and Thighs
Piggy Market
Porchetta
Public
Puebla
Punjabi
Rack and Soul
Rhong-Tiam
Robataya
Roberta's
Room 4 dessert
Rye
Salt
Saltie
Salumeria Rosi
Sasabune
Saul Restaurant
Scarpetta
Seafood Harbor
Sfoglia
Shakeshack
Sho Shaun Hergatt
S'mac
Smith & Miller
Sobakoh
Spitzer's
Stand
Sushi Seki
Sushi Yasuda
Sushi Zen
Taim
Tamarind
Taso de Oro
Terakawa Ramen
Terroir
The Breslin
The Spotted Pig
Toby's
Tomoe
Trestle on Tenth
Tsukushi
Udon West
Unidentified Frying Chicken
Vatan
Vermilion
Willies Dawgs
Yakatori Totto
Yasuda
Zaitzeff
Zampa
Zarela

There's a 141 restaurants currently on the list, and I've thus far eaten at 25.  I've thankfully been to a number of the above before, but some are holdovers from old lists that have already closed without my ever getting the chance to visit.  I know that there's going to be many phenomenal things we are going to eat while we're away, but rare will there be another place that we are going to live that literally has on-demand food.

Between lunches and dinners I have about 28 meals left.  Sadly, amazingly, I'm sure I could write down another 141 places where it would equally delicious and not repeat a single on of the above.