I once went to Shopsins‘ restaurant when it was still located in the West Village (is is now in the Essex Market in the Lower East Side). I was equal parts in awe of the huge and inventive menu and terrified by what conditions might be like in the kitchen (cooks kept coming out of the kitchen wearing the most unbelievably filthy aprons I have ever seen). The place seemed kid friendly, with toys strewn about, though the staff was comprised exclusively of salty types who sprinkled every conversation they had with a few NC-17 curse words. Well, now Kenny Shopsin himself has cookbook, called, unsurprisingly, Eat Me. I can’t imagine every recipe from their menu being represented in a single book–the menu is that huge, but I would say the book is worth the purchase, just to see if it includes the recipe for the carmel pecan coconut bread pudding french toast. Yes, bread pudding french toast. [via Serious Eats]
I like cupcakes as well as the next chick does, but I think we have enough cutesy cake shops in New York, thanks. Grub Street reports on the opening of three more cupcake shops, including another Magnolia Bakery at times square. Oh well, maybe it’ll keep a few tourists out of the Village.
Well, it is isn’t exactly a moose burger, but…wait! That’s a good thing! I am intrigued by Food Mayhem’s bison burgers with apple smoke salt. I am trying to imagine what apple smoked salt is like. Maybe I’ll just have to find out.
Midtown lunch is now doing a Happy Hour column! A smart addition to the great NY office-worker oriented blog. His first post is about the dive Rudy’s in Hell’s Kitchen. Before the Hubs, I once had a blind date at Rudy’s. It did not go well. Not well at all. But I won’t hold that against ML!
Just in time for Octoberfest, Eat It has a review of Radegast Hall Biergarten in Williamsburg. Get thee there before the good weather runs out! Auf wiedersehen!
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