Top 3 Favorite New York Foods

My friend Lana took me to Barbuto last night in the West Village/Meatpacking District and I had Jonathan Waxman's signature roast chicken that was SO good I imagined myself finishing an article for the New Yorker and sending it to my editor and then strolling down to Barbuto and sitting at the bar and eating this thing alone to celebrate.

No, I cannot just eat a chicken, I seemingly have to publish an article and walk to deserve this level of succulency.  It was divine.

This made me think: Ahoy! I have a New York Top 3 foods piece in the making.

Here are my Top 3 New York Foods to date. (not in any order)

1.  JW Signature Roast Chicken at Barbuto

2.  Sheeps’ Milk Ricotta with sea salt and herbs at Locanda Verde 

Eating this was a meal in itself. It was a textural, sublime, heavenly moment.  You can publish an article and eat this too. Or write an article while eating it.  Or just sit there and gaze and eat this and feel all good about life.  Your pick. 


3. Chocolate Chip Cookie at Jacques Torres

 
This cookie is by far one of the best I have ever had. There are bagel wars and pizza wars and cookie wars and this is one of the victors in town I declare.  They serve it room temp or warmed.  Amazing.  And with many locations you can have a private moment with the dough cradling chocolate piece of heaven all over town.  Forget cupcake wars and surrender to this cookie.

Locanda Verde

I met Cheline for lunch at Locanda Verde in Tribeca. We had a great time as always and the food was good/fine, but nothing was as gastronomically memorable as the Sheeps' Milk Ricotta with sea salt and herbs. It was truly divine. Soft and creamy and the salt and herbs and virgin olive oil made it feel like eating was now a spa treatment.

The grilled bread that accompanied had that audible crunch followed by a falling backward onto down pillows feeling that went so well with this creamy sheepy elixir.

I will think of this dish and I will pop in here and sit and eat just it next time.

And if I don't finish it all (doubtful) I will take the rest home and give myself a facial using the bread as a buff pad.