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Everyone is going apeshit over soup. Even Restaurant Girl is clamoring for chowder’s moment. Earlier this week she reviewed Bussaco, a new Park Slope spot: "Eating the crab chowder at Bussaco makes me wonder why chowder isn't more popular," she writes. "Was there a chowder trend? Did I miss it? Why don't we have one now?" Crab chowder with “Old Bay puffs" is $14 at Bussaco (dinner only).
- At 6 o'clock on the dot last Saturday night, the line at Brooklyn dumpling HQ Eton looked like the buildup outside of an Engelbert Humperdinck concert. Eton has officially put away its shaved ice (or "shave ice," according to people who have been to Hawaii) contraptions and brought on noodle soups for the winter. $12 buys you a quart of soy-laced broth filled with knobby, spätzle-like noodles and a hunk of braised short rib on top.
- For a blowout media preview the week before last that would have effectively put an end to all
foodrestaurant blogs in NYC if everyone in the place had been kidnapped, Ippudo unveiled six seasonal ramen soups, including Tiger Tan Tan Men, which was excellent, and is seen here: a big bowl of rich, tasty pork broth stirred with sesame paste, smoky pork sausage bits, and fresh noodles. Lunch only throughout November; $12. - Alex Ureña, he of the secret take-out lunch menu at Pamplona, is quietly offering two deluxe soups: Wild mushroom with goat cheese toast and crispy cremini mushrooms, for $15, and sopa de calabaza, a butternut squash soup with manchego foam and Serrano ham.
Elsewhere, Republic has just sent out a press release touting four more affordable soups, which range from Corn-Seaweed ($4), to Vietnamese Chicken ($8). And finally, at Al Di La in Park Slope, which started offering lunch service Thursday, a Northern Italian-inspired bowl of duck, kale, and squash soup topped with Parmesan croutons goes for $10. Expect the soup at Al Di La to change daily; the revolution will not be reheated in a steam table.
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Would it be totally unreasonable of me to take issue with the term "food blogs" being used to describe restaurant blogs? I know it seems unlikely but some of us bloggy types do manage to write about food and cooking without a word about restaurants and their press releases.
You're a complete tool if you pay 14 bucks for soup without blinking.
does everything have to be a trend or the new thing to do in nyc?
can't people just like soup...all the time?
and yeah that is expensive
people are that dumb. if these places like ippudo gave us our money's worth, they probably go out of business from making less profit.
people are that dumb. if these places like ippudo gave us our money's worth of ramen, they probably go out of business from making less profit.
I actually tried the chowder at Bussaco. I don't recall it costing $14 though. I believe it was more like $7 or $8. And it was excellent. The Old Bay Puffs were kinda stupid and tasteless honestly. The pretzel bites were amazing too. And the junior sommolier, really good guy.
I'm a huge soup fan. Favorite these days is noodle shops like Momofuku. I'll shell out dough for some good soup.
oh and also, the chef at Bussaco is obviously very talented, but whomever told him that pulled pork is supposed to be THAT salty is totally out of their minds. (coming from a former Carolinian who knows her pork)