NYers, help me with Mario Batali's restaurants
I am a Mario Batali groupie. I love the guy. I have never been to NYC, but it's next on my list for a girls' trip, whenever that opportunity arises. As it could be spontaneous, I want to have all my...
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Here you go:Babbo - His most "formal" restaurant, specializing in Northern Italian. The pasta is to die for. He offers a regular menu and 2 tasting menus. One of them is just pasta and is way to...
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Oh thank you, bugswife! It sounds like Lupa is the winner for me~
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I have to say that I have little experience with these restaurants. Lupa and Babbo remain very high on my list, but somehow we never seem to get there (too many nights committed to being in the...
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I've only been to Babbo once, and I liked it very much, but be advised that the food is creative and is very unusual--lots of use of parts of the animals that aren't what everyone might be expecting.
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By other body parts, some examples would beBeef Cheek Ravioli - which is absolutely deliciousOxtail in Pasta - also delishBoth taste exactly like any other braised beef might. Not gamey or strange.
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As a dear friend said, "A tongue sandwich? That's disgusting. I'm not eating anything that came out of an animal's mouth. I think I'll just have an omelette."
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I LOVE tongue, but the cured or smoked tongue. My mom cooked it kind of like corned beef..simmered slowly with bay leaf and peppercorns. No one around me will eat it so now and then I go to the deli...
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At Babbo, the menu's range goes beyond beef cheeks and oxtail.Other current menu items include tripe and lamb's brain. There are other choices of course.
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Those dishes may be unusual to most Americans, but isn't using the whole animal the traditional peasant Italian way?
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Oh, absolutely, I just found them to be unusual menu items for a New York Italian restaurant.
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I think these kind of things..organ meat, brains etc. are traditional dishes in other cultures because when a family slaughterd their animal, they had to use it ALL. No turning your nose up at some...
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We just ate at Babbo in October having made our reservations 1 month to the day before time.I'm going out on a limb here but I was underwhelmed. While the food was good I wouldn't say it warranted the...
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Well my spousal unit nearly split a gut
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I finally just got it Oh yea..I'm quick
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We got an invite to a neighbor's party yesterday. We weren't able to go, but he's an accomplished chef, and guess what he was serving? Beef tongue, and he was so proud of it!
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Patrick!!!! Omelet!!! Funny!!!!!!!Not impressed by Esca. Love Babbo. Great vibe, great barcrowd, get a res, although maitred is straight out of central casting and will do best to get you seated.So,...
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We ate at Otto's May '04 for Mrs Kal's b'day.Great staff, good food (could have drank wine and ate the cheese platters with the "fancy dippin' sauces" all night) but as it was mentioned, gets a bit...
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