8 Dishes to Make You Feel Like You are Not in NYC
Is your Instagram feed full of people vacationing in Europe, weekending in the Hamptons, or tanning at some lake up state - all while you are stuck in your poorly air conditioned apartment in the dead of New York summer heat? FOMO no mo’! Thankfully, we’ve compiled this list of dishes at restaurants in NYC that make NYC seem like a far away place. Escape to your own vacation by grabbing one of the dishes in the list below.
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Lobster Omelette Chu Chee
Thai Diner // Nolita
📸: Reece Armstrong
The lobster omelette at Thai Diner could convince you Nolita is a village in Phuket. Take a bite of the soft buttery egg with luxurious lobster meat doused in a tropical red coconut curry and you’ll be transported off to the beaches of southern Thailand on a first class flight. Not only will it make you feel like you’re elsewhere, it will make you feel like you’re traveling in style.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
Tortelloni
Il Posto Accanto // East Village
📸: Reece Armstrong
All too often, Italian restaurants in NYC fall short of Italian, instead landing in the realm of Italian-American. Of those, there are many, but a select few like Il Posto Acconto make us feel like we’re in the old country. Only in Italy would they braise oxtail to shreds of decadence in Barolo wine, stuff it into tortelloni and serve it in its own sauce.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
Matcha Cold Noodles
Okiboru // Lower East Side
📸: Reece Armstrong
Japanese transplant Okiburu House of Tsukemen is known for noodles that you dip and eat rather than serving them in broth. They serve their cold matcha noodles on ice like a fine champagne with shoyu, quail egg, wasabi, radish, scallion and crunchy, sweet katsu-fried shrimp on a stick that might become your new favorite lollipop. A spread with many components, this “choose your own destiny” dish might look something like the Japan travel itinerary you scrapped after checking the airfare.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
Jerk Chicken
Peppa’s // LES, Kips Bay, Prospect Heights, Little Haiti, Flatbush
📸: @peppasjerk
Your island getaway starts at Peppa’s Jerk. They douse their jerk chicken in Caribbean flavor with nose-tingling spice, a sweet, tangy sauce and a light smokiness. Dancehall music blasting in the background will complete the vibe as you close your eyes and picture a band playing the steel drums right in front of you.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY, The Infatuation, Timeout, Eater
Salt And Pepper Monkfish
The House of the Red Pearl // Seaport
📸: Reece Armstrong
Monkfish is often confined to a standard fate on American plates. Most restaurants serve it poached in a buttery tomato sauce. But the poor man’s lobster has great potential for experimentation and The House of the Red Pearl within Jean-Georges Vogerichten’s Tin Building shows that with an Asian take on the fish. Served with chili-garlic crumbs, sungold tomatoes and a scallion-ginger sauce to drizzle over the top, it’s the perfect dish for seafood lovers who are also into spicy food.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
Clam Pie
Lala’s Apizza // East Williamsburg
📸: @lalasbrooklyn
Most New Yorker’s won’t admit these things, but New Haven-style apizza is the best pizza money can buy, and they all wish they could spend summer on the Connecicut coast. Enter Lala’s Apizza, a new apizza joint on the roof of a brewery in East Williamsburg that’s making New Yorkers’ apizza dreams well within reach. They make a clam pie that would remind any Nutmegger of a trip to New Haven for Frank Pepe’s with the surprise of a riesling butter sauce adding a quick stopover in Germany.
This dish is recommended by: Eater
Seafood Pancake
Sik Gaek // Sunnyside
📸: Sabih Rahman
Pancakes in NYC are usually served with syrup but Sik Gaek brings you to Korea where they have an expanded definition of the word. This pancake is dotted with shrimp, octopus, scallions and more, engulfed within crunchy batter, served with an addictive sweet chili-like sauce. The best part is tearing off piece after piece and eating this pancake with your hands, an action we would not endorse for eating American pancakes saturated with syrup.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
Tamales Rojos de Puerco
Sabor A Mexico II // Upper East Side
📸: Reece Armstrong
If you wish you were somewhere south of the border this is the one for you. Tamales inundated with mole is like a Mexican food-lovers dream and Sabor A Mexico II on the Upper East Side takes that responsibility very seriously. Nutty while faintly spicy and sweet, the blanket of mole insulates the pillowy pocket of pork with waves of flavor from a faraway place.
This dish is recommended by: 8it NY
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