WHOLE FOOD FRUIT TART FULL

If you prefer to read in print, you can also find this article in the January 1, 2024, issue of Thank you for subscribing and supporting our journalism. It is - and this is saying a lot for some pie - something entirely new. You think you’ve had pie like this before, but not really, and never as memorable. The vegan filling is silken tofu and coconut oil, as jiggly and rich as anything made with eggs. It’s just so fun - and secretly ingenious.

WHOLE FOOD FRUIT TART FULL

Pastry duo Darcy Spence and Katie Toles specialize in familiarity that never leans too hard on nostalgia, a style on full display in their Pearl Pie: Jewels of tapioca spill over sweet-and-tart passion-fruit custard the color of salmon roe. M.S.ĭessert is a nonnegotiable must-order at the expanded Superiority Burger. Some purists may romanticize the tight quarters of the old single room, but that’s mostly for clout (I speak as one of them). Over the years, Sodi’s empire has grown - with her partner, Jody Williams, she runs Via Carota, Bar Pisellino, and nearby Commerce Inn - but I Sodi remains the jewel in her crown, its layered lasagna and pappardelle al limone still justly celebrated. The same is true at I Sodi, the perennially unavailable Tuscan favorite from Rita Sodi that moved to A.O.C.’s former digs in the summer. There are new menu items - Marea’s concession to our current caviar craziness is a toasty little brioche canapé doused in roe, butter, and a dangerous amount of garlic - but management knows better than to jettison any of the classics. The dining room has been brightened, but only just, and the front bar still packs in business-suited singles who chat over bone-marrow fusilli. Inside, despite a monthslong renovation, it feels as though it never left. The Upper West Side missed Marea - that’s the only conclusion I can draw from the number of passersby who stopped to ogle through the window when the restaurant reopened in the fall. Dinner is sushi from (relative) elder statesman Rule of Thirds, which also owns, a “sake shop for natural wine lovers.” - Matthew Schneier Start with breakfast at Okonomi - roasted fish, rice, miso soup, tsukemono pickles, and pale, sweet slices of omelet - and transition to bento boxes of thick-cut pork katsu at ACRE cafe. If it were only this single building, it would be enough, but you can eat a full day of Japanese meals without leaving the area.

This fall, Uzuki opened in the back, where soba master Shuichi Kotani turns out superlative buckwheat-noodle soups (get the duck shio). outpost of Japan’s 19th-century dashi chain and House, which offers tasting-menu dinners. The address was already home to Cibone, with its rotating displays of Japanese ceramics Dashi Okume, a U.S. Start your journey at 50 Norman Avenue, a warehouse-turned-clearing-house of direct-from-the-motherland excellence, thanks to the efforts of a local Japanese architect, Aki Miyazono. Ride the G train far enough and you can wind up in Tokyo.

Whole food fruit tart