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Goat cheese agnolotti with maitake mushrooms. The theme since Thanksgiving (I cooked elsewhere this year so no posts—sorry!) has been simplicity. Luckily in NYC we have access to such incredible ingredients that simple can still mean delicious. Yesterday, I stopped by Eataly and picked up these great looking agnolotti and mushrooms. Maitake have such an exquisite flavor that (in my opinion) they do best when prepared quickly and simply. Here, I quickly sautéed them (4-5 minutes over medium heat), added a bit of base tomato sauce and brought to a simmer, then tossed with the finished agnolotti. 20 Minutes start to finish including boiling water.

Goat cheese agnolotti with maitake mushrooms. The theme since Thanksgiving (I cooked elsewhere this year so no posts—sorry!) has been simplicity. Luckily in NYC we have access to such incredible ingredients that simple can still mean delicious. Yesterday, I stopped by Eataly and picked up these great looking agnolotti and mushrooms. Maitake have such an exquisite flavor that (in my opinion) they do best when prepared quickly and simply. Here, I quickly sautéed them (4-5 minutes over medium heat), added a bit of base tomato sauce and brought to a simmer, then tossed with the finished agnolotti. 20 Minutes start to finish including boiling water.

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Posted Monday November 28, 2011 (link) | pasta | mushrooms | eataly | recipe | nyc

I finally made it to Birreria, the new rooftop beer garden at Eataly. The fried shitake mushrooms in this photo were perfect. The Cotechino sausage was also very good. As for beer, the Sofia—a cask beer styled after classic Belgian Wits—was really nice, although on a hot muggy day like today, Dogfish Head’s Festina Peche was much more enjoyable and a great match to the food. At noon on a Friday, the place was empty, but it quickly filled up. I’ve seen complaints about the price, and I can understand why: for a salad, fried shitake, a sausage, and two beers, the bill was $86. Still, I’d say it’s worth going at least once to check it out.

I finally made it to Birreria, the new rooftop beer garden at Eataly. The fried shitake mushrooms in this photo were perfect. The Cotechino sausage was also very good. As for beer, the Sofia—a cask beer styled after classic Belgian Wits—was really nice, although on a hot muggy day like today, Dogfish Head’s Festina Peche was much more enjoyable and a great match to the food. At noon on a Friday, the place was empty, but it quickly filled up. I’ve seen complaints about the price, and I can understand why: for a salad, fried shitake, a sausage, and two beers, the bill was $86. Still, I’d say it’s worth going at least once to check it out.

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Posted Friday July 8, 2011 (link) | eataly | beer | nyc

Eataly NYC

It took me a few days, but I finally made it to Eataly, Mario Batali’s new NYC food mecca. After enjoying a Shack Burger and Shack-cago dog, I walked the less than 100m to the entrance just off Madison Square Park. There was a staffer at the door saying this entrance is only for the cafe even though it clearly connects to the whole place. He was turning away hordes of people at that door— I wonder if they budgeted for that full time position? Anyway, at 1pm I walked right into the main entrance. When I left, the line was longer than the line at Shake Shack. I know this is NYC, but a line longer than at the Shack for a glorified grocery store is a new one for me.

Everyone with a food blog has written something about this place, so I’ll just post a couple of pics and move on. The place is unquestionably awesome. It’s kind of like a shopping mall for Italian food related items, complete with the greatest food court imaginable. They’re clearly going for an Italian food education vibe with clearly printed descriptions of important categories of food and specialty items.

There’s also an attached wine store, with a small but thoughtful collection. There was some nice Arneis to taste at the door.

One of the more interesting parts of Eataly is their beer collection— a mix of Italian microbrews (that I didn’t even know existed) and Dogfish Head. I would’ve been shocked had the Dogfish newsletter from a few days ago not told me all about this. Better yet, the roof of Eataly is going to be transformed into a brewpub collaboration with Dogfish. Seriously, between this, Shake Shack, and Eleven Madison park (and Tabla, I guess), Madison Square Park might be the best all around culinary destination in the city.

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Posted Sunday September 5, 2010 (link) | eataly | nyc | shake shack