BRIEF BITES…
Lower East Side: Austrian cocktail bar and bistro Hag is offering a seasonal tasting plate of its famed artisanal muffins. $36 gets you four of the fluffy confections: Pickled beet, flounder, white chocolate chip with feta, and “other.”
Williamsburg: With protests in Egypt raging for over a week, Williamsburgerites have begun stockpiling popular Egyptian beverage Qyramid, an alcoholic beverage containing caffeine, melatonin, and other spices.
Flatiron: Cajun tapas bar Pemba will be the first restaurant in New York City to serve “bloop,” a sausage consisting of the blood extracted from a lambs large intestine. Bloop has been all the rage for adventurous chefs on the west coast, explains Pemba head chef Juan Pemba: “We serve bloop in the traditional way: Smoked and served on an entire loaf of toasted french bread with a schmear of ketchup.” Yum?
Soho: Is $14 too much for a slice? Not according to Sandino’s pizza chef Mario Sandino. The veteran Brooklyn pizza maker’s newest creation is the “Golden Nugget Slice,” consisting of buffalo mozzarella, boar sausage, 14K gold shavings, truffle oil, a fried egg, garlic mayonnaise, sardine roe, sparkling wine, artichoke lung, sea salt, baked ziti, chick peas, lo mein, and pepperoni.
West Village: Beloved chocolaterie Joey will reopen as a posh, sustainable-tea house called Chandler.
it’s back!!! IT’S BACK!
it’s back!!! IT’S BACK!