It is exactly a month to the day since I last posted on here, when I was still in the States. An epic journey driving across the country via Route 66 consisting of 2800 miles and 50 hours in the car. More importantly a lot of (junk) food was consumed in this period! I'm going focus things back on the East coast though for this post. The previous two posts have already detailed establishments that were visited on the East coast but I want to mention another, this time in New York.
On an early evening in NYC, having just made a trip to Staten Island we made the journey up to Chinatown.
Hungry and impatient, I made an executive decision not to wait 45 minutes for dim sum but instead to hail a cab to take us to New York's Lower East Side. What brought us there you might wonder? Well... a deli with over 100 years of history, Katz's Delicatessen.
Having featured on Man v Food, this alone was enough justification for making a stop, it would simply be rude not to right? Adam Richman came here and ordered a Reuben sandwich so you can figure out what I ordered from the menu. The Reuben sandwich consists of corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese and homemade Russian dressing in between untoasted rye bread. However, just to make things more interesting I added pastrami to mine and I must say it's the best pastrami I've ever tasted! It simply melts in your mouth like a good steak.
As you can see in the above photo, I foolishly ordered a side of coleslaw with mine. I managed to devour the sandwich without any problems but I'm ashamed to admit I left about half the coleslaw. Despite this I popped next door for two scoops of gelato at il laboratoria del gelato.
The ice cream parlour is built upon a open kitchen that they call "The Lab". Chefs and caterers are actually encouraged to work with them to develop new flavours. That's certainly given me some food for thought... no pun intended there...honest!
On an early evening in NYC, having just made a trip to Staten Island we made the journey up to Chinatown.
Hungry and impatient, I made an executive decision not to wait 45 minutes for dim sum but instead to hail a cab to take us to New York's Lower East Side. What brought us there you might wonder? Well... a deli with over 100 years of history, Katz's Delicatessen.
As you can see in the above photo, I foolishly ordered a side of coleslaw with mine. I managed to devour the sandwich without any problems but I'm ashamed to admit I left about half the coleslaw. Despite this I popped next door for two scoops of gelato at il laboratoria del gelato.
The ice cream parlour is built upon a open kitchen that they call "The Lab". Chefs and caterers are actually encouraged to work with them to develop new flavours. That's certainly given me some food for thought... no pun intended there...honest!
I opted for passion fruit sorbet and tarragon ice cream just to be different for a change. The texture was spot on with just the right amount of creaminess. The tarragon flavour was surprisingly tasty and not too overpowering, the perfect accompaniment to the passion fruit sorbet.
So there we go ladies and gents...that's enough reminiscing for one night, it's getting late and I'm getting hungry again!
