Results tagged “soups”

Even though winter’s barely a week old, many folks in the city have come down with a doozy of a cold, perhaps due to the sharp temperature drop that marked the end of an otherwise moderate fall. Our nasty respiratory bug is finally on its way out, largely because we’ve been treating it with a variety of potent soups available in Queens. Whether you're sick as a dog or just in need of a warm up, solace can be found in these hearty soups and stews.

Kunjip might be a misleading name for a small low-ceiling Korean restaurant that translates into “big house” in English. Big or small, Kunjip, a 32nd street K-town fixture, is nearly always packed—and mostly with Koreans. Service is brusque—non-existent really--starting from the moment you are shoved menus (one with pictures, another written) about the variety of stews, rice dishes, grilled meats, noodles, and myriad soups—while you’re still waiting in line for a table. Before even being seated, it’s likely your food order will be taken, and those unfamiliar with Korean dishes are only pressured to make up their minds quickly.

To be honest, we've been to Palo Santo several times over the past year. We even took our mother there for her birthday. It's a gorgeous setting, with all the beauty of urban decay and none of the dirt. The talented chef, Jacques Gautier, made those tables of found wood and assorted interesting objects himself. The very cobblestones built into the restaurant's striking exterior were salvaged from nearby 5th Avenue, where they had been unearthed and then tossed aside by Con Ed.

Brooklyn newcomer Brooklyn Label serves breakfast, lunch, and brunch in the spaciously remodeled ground floor of the historic Astral Apartments building in Greenpoint. Maintaining original ceilings and floors (where possible), bright sunlight pours in in windows on the South and West sides illuminating bright orange walls and a steadily crowded room. Open six days a week (except Mondays), Brooklyn Label's hearty menu offers generously sized servings of creative variations on all-American favorites with breakfast sandwiches on weekdays (like a grilled challah roll with spinach, eggs, and pepper bacon and bacon, eggs, and cheese on homemade biscuits), and vegetarian entrees, homemade soups and salads, and sandwiches at lunch.

- Baby, it's cold outside, and what better way to warm up than with a steaming bowl of soup. MUG rounds up readers' favorite chicken soups, or if you prefer cooking your own, the Daily News lets us in on soup recipes from Dirty Bird, Tabla, and Fairway

When Fish Tail Restaurant replaced the now defunct Tab Tos in October, the East Village mourned the loss of a tiny-if-not-charming ten seat sushi joint with notoriously brusk service, but reputably fresh fish--some of the best in the city. Fish Tail, changing little about Tab Tos' sparse decor (and even now failing to replace the old health inspection sign) does little to salvage the locale as a sushi hotspot.

Today is the first day of what could possibly be many days of Thanksgiving leftovers. This is the honeymoon period in the relationship, so enjoy it -- after three more days, you'll be so sick of turkey in any form that you won't want to eat it again until next Thanksgiving. But what to do with all the leftover turkey to stretch out the honeymoon? Sure, there's the standard turkey sandwich, either served cold or hot, and open-faced with a healthy drizzle of gravy, and, of course, the turkey pot pie, but there are plenty of other creative options as well.

As the weather gets cooler, we find ourselves inexplicably drawn to daydreams of cooking up large batches of soups, stews, and chilis and baking warm loaves of bread (baguettes, cornbread, banana bread -- whatever, really). It's that time of year when nesting begins in earnest for many of us. This weekend, we made a dinner that we felt perfectly captured the transition from summer to fall: a butternut squash and sage risotto topped with seared scallops (loosely adapted from this Gourmet recipe), roasted tomatoes with a parmesan-herb crust, and roasted zucchini and onions.

The government is asking Americans not to eat spinach as it continues to investigate the E.coli outbreak related to the leafy green. Spinach - and other vegetable - supplier Natural Selection has been cleared of contamination, but the FDA hasn't lifted the recalls on Natural Selection brands. But some restaurants and grocery stores are still featuring spinach, as the Post reports seeing "spinach soups, spinach pizzas and even bunches of fresh spinach." Now, spinach soups and pizzas might be passable, because the spinach could have been long frozen (how does E.coli do in the freezing temps, though?), but we'd think most customers would avoid spinach.

Cheap, portable, and tasty foods are every New Yorker's gastronomic best friend. Add Elizabeth Ting's ingenious bing to the roster, originally sold at Unique Pastry in Queens and now at her new outpost Roll and Doughon W. 3rd & 6th, and you have a winning dinner for the road.

Asparagus -- where to start? It does not resemble any other food we eat, leaves a stink in our toilet bowls like none other, and often confuses buyers with its fat or thin conundrum. Yet despite all the easy attachable locker room humor that’s readily available, it has been beloved all world over for a very long time now.

Jesse Chan-Norris sees that the Broadway and 8th Street location of 'wichcraft has opened up - and the soups of the day are Chicken and Cauliflower. This bring the total to six locations in NYC, and this one is will truly be tested come the fall semester of NYU. It's a pricey visit for lunch, but not if you're loading up on a lot of stuff at the salad bar. (And having a nice lunch one day a week is Gothamist's new decadence - we make lunch four days a week and one day a week we go somewhere "nice.")

There are few things in life at Mexican restaurants better than fresh guacamole prepared at your tableside, so when Gothamist spied a bowlful of avocados ready for smashin', we headed into Park Slope's inviting La Taqueria, a long, narrow joint smattered with paintings by local artist Jeramy Turner. Margaritas are a must-have, though nearly a dozen bottled beers appear on the menu including Tecate and Pacifico along with fresh fruit juices and the house sangria. Hot, crispy tortilla chips still dripping in oil arrived at the table for starters, accompanied by a mild, but smoky salsa. Soon afterwards, a cart quietly rolled up to the table where cilantro, lemon, and tomatoes were smashed into ripened avocados with a mortar and pestle and left to devour with another basket of chips.

In "Sex and the City," the ladies fall for the pretzel guy in the greenmarket. In "Party Girl," Parker Posey swoons over the falafel guy on the street. Well, in the real-life New York, if you ask Gothamist, the cutest street vendor may be the panini guy at Le Kiosk. He’s a Frenchman with Spanish roots, and his smile can melt mozzarella. We don’t know his name because we were too busy flirting shamelessly to ask, but we'll get to that on our next visit. Oh, and the sandwiches aren’t bad either. Here each sandwich is made to order with fresh ingredients. The panini may not be Italian enough to satisfy the purists, but the combinations are well thought out and delicious. Le Kiosk also offers a selection of traditional French sandwiches, soups, and salads. If you stop by in the morning, they have coffee and croissants.

A neighborhood bakery--the kind where you can sit on a lazy Sunday morning sipping coffee, noshing on a muffin, and reading the NY Times, is the sweet indulgence of any New Yorker. So, even though they aren't serving up a Buche de Noel this week, Ciao for Now offers sugary treats perfect for day, especially the holidays [or the Friday before Christmas when, even though the transit strike is over, you'd rather go sit in a cafe]. Gothamist's favorites are the fresh ginger cookies and lemon polenta muffins, though a plethora of scones, turnovers, dessert breads, and delicately frosted cakes also whet the palate. If craving something more savory, fresh panini are pressed in-house alongside homemade vegetable frittatas and soups and the dessert case also offers vegan-friendly options for the conscientious. Catskills imported coffee beans make for a strong brew you can drink while you lazily read your paper at a table where sunflowers will likely brighten the view. Books line the western wall (just in case you forget you) and the convivial staff is always willing to strike up a chat. Stop in for a cookie and take the cheer home with you for the holidays.

A recent Mexican-food-filled trip to Texas left Gothamist craving delicious chips and guacamole upon our return to New York. When we heard about the homemade guacamole at Café El Portal on Elizabeth Street, we couldn’t refrain from making a visit to taste it ourselves.

Fish is one of those spots that we've walked past a million times over the five years it has been open, but somehow have never made it in. We've even made a mental note -- oooh, local seafood joint... looks good...should stop by soon -- but somehow didn't make it. Until last week, when we finally pulled ourselves together to go in and see what Fish was all about. A few things to know about Fish right off the bat: first, owner Edward Taylor also owns Down East, Fish's exclusive seafood distributor. This gives Fish some of the best and freshest seafood around. Second, Fish is a neighborhood joint. Despite the tourist crowd that may wander in on the weekends due to its Bleecker Street location, during the week the place is quiet, low-key, and heavy on the regulars. In fact, a great deal of the menu was influenced by the customers and neighborhood chefs; on it you'll find Kenny's Bleecker Street Burger (beef from Ottomanelli, across the street), and Scallops Dave's Way (Dave Pasternack of Bistro du Vent and Esca).

Sandwiched between myriad Starbucks in Astor Place, you might have noticed the glaringly orange MUD Truck parked by former home of the Alamo Cube. The 4 year old brain-child (or vehicle) of Nina Berott and Greg Northrop, the coffee and snack truck mainly services commuters on-the-go. But, for a full breakfast, lunch, or dinner menu, one can also stop in at the Mudspot (on E. 9th between 1st & 2nd), munch on granola, and revel in the last remnants of NYC’s hippies.

Two food events of note over the next few days. Don't let a little snow keep you away!

When is a sandwich more than just a sandwich? When it achieves the Platonic ideal of sandwichness, the goal at Eli Zabar's E.A.T., located on the Upper East Side. Around since 1973, E.A.T. has doubled its restaurant size and grown as a catering business as well. In this time, it has become a mainstay for everyone from "ladies who lunch" to UES weekend brunchers. Gothamist had been hearing great things about this place for a while now and decided to pay a visit, finally, while venturing to the UES to see some art. Sunday brunch at E.A.T. would make for a nice little reward after wending our way through a crowded museum.

The punched out metal letters on Tim Phillips’s sign for Landscape Café will be lit up with backlights and set against a pouring of crushed glass. The new café, the product of an architectural background and yearning for a good latte, demonstrates keen attention to detail and clean design on the corner across from greasy late-night pancake haven, Kellogg’s Diner, and down the street from the Barcade and another Gothamist favorite, the Hope & Union Bakery-Cafe. Perhaps the only former squatters’ den becomes cafe in Williamsburg to now don Philippe Starck chairs, Gothamist noticed the track lights, fan fixtures, and art deco sign en route to the subway, and stopped in to talk to Phillips earlier this week.

Daily Soup Cookbook

"Cheap" doesn’t always come to mind when you're wading through $400 sweaters in Soho, but if you're looking to find bang for your buck, stop in at Mooncake Foods, the anomalous Pan-Asian bistro-diner on Watts Street, for eats that won't swallow up your wallet.

Call 311 if there are problems, and here's more information about what to do with your building's heat from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development. The Red Cross suggests that if your home loses heat, seal the doors and windows and keep everyone in the same room; plus, they recommend to dress in layers and wear boots, gloves and a hat. Gothamist heartily agrees and says your fears of looking like a shapeless blob with later hat-head are small next to the possibility of frostbite.

Columbine's Curry Squash Soup

Kenny Kramer, Entrepreneur / Wacky Next-Door Neighbor

Much to our pleasure, Daily Candy reports the opening of Rice to Riches, the Mulberry Street rice pudding joint. There are flavors like Strawberry Floozy, Stubborn Banana with hint of Coconut, Chocolate Carnivore with a trace of Dark Raisins, and Obscene Orange with a tinge of Carrot. I'm a rice pudding purist myself, but I'd be up for Stubborn Banana with a hint of Coconut.