Wednesday Food News: Early Edition

This week in the Times, Bruni two-stars Soto, calls the restaurant “an unipalooza like none I’ve encountered.” Don’t stick to the sushi and sashimi; if you do, you’re “missing not only the best of this restaurant but also the point of it.” The service? “Sluggish and absent-minded.”

In $25 and Under, Peter Meehan goes to Go! Go! Curry where he finds the curry sauce gloopy and sludgy, but ultimately “beguiling.” And they have a mascot (outside, wearing a gorilla suit) and are baseball-obsessed (curries are sold in sizes ranging from a walk to a triple).

Paul Adams visits gastropub Alchemy in Park Slope for the NY Sun, says the menu “offers a neat mix of heartiness and subtle flavors that epitomizes gastropub fare.” He especially likes the seafood, and the cocktails.

In Bloomberg News, Alan Richman goes to Monkey Bar, where he finds “the wrong kind of people eating the wrong kind of food.” Says Patricia Yeo’s “dishes are incoherent and the food is thuddingly heavy. No focus. No finess. Lots of salt.” He does like the bread basket though.

And Cuozzo dines out in the Financial District, says it’s finally coming back. Says restaurant Gold St. “has become the local Odeon,” likes Cipriani’s on Wall Street and downtown Les Halles, as well as the local steakhouses.

Restaurant Girl goes to Sea Salt for the Daily News, awards the East Village fish restaurant one and a half stars. Loves Chef Orhan Yegen’s salt-encrusted whole fish, as well as the lamb chops. Other entrees, the meze and the fish cakes disappoint.