Most small-plates joints, including such good ones locally as AOC or Lou, follow a kind of pattern, a loose, tapas-inspired matrix designed more to compliment the wine than to provide a specific aesthetic apart from lubricated conversation, but this lunch seemed like a different thing entirely, like the Craft experience distilled into a tasting menu.
Things are going well here at Squid Ink. Our correspondents are finding all sorts of cool things to post about in the world of food and drink. The only problem is that there are so many things to blog about that it's hard to keep up with the incoming copy......
In the past couple of years, while few people outside the community were paying attention, the mini-malls that had stalled in the last real estate crash finally eased into being, the itinerant tamale vendors found their customers outside Vietnamese grocery stores, and the streetscape began to be dominated by pho......
In his latest Counter Intelligence column, "Pork in the Time of Swine Flu -- Mexico City's Pig Cuisine, Snoot to Hoof," Jonathan Gold writes: "Toasted corn has its place. Chiles are indispensable. The indescribable scent of achiote is key. But well-made carnitas may be at the center of the genius......
"If you're lucky," wrote Jonathan Gold in his Counter Intelligence review "In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho -- Dispensing Chile-Red Comfort in a Bowl of Koreatown Goat Soup," "you may be offered a taste of the house soju, a tea-colored cordial flavored with steeped fresh ginseng." Now......
There are many ways to publicize a new restaurant, but in this age of Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen, Susan Feniger has come up with a cool new way to let potential customers get a glimpse of her cooking style -- and the many headaches of opening a place from......
