DoSirak
As it turns out, man cannot live by
yams alone: Hero's, the quirky Village Japanese fast-food
joint singularly devoted to dishes made with starchy,
pale-yellow-fleshed Japanese sweet potatoes, has expanded
into a Korean bibimbop shop called DoSirak. Hero's
owner Hirokazu Sakai is mired in visa troubles, which
are forcing him to return to Japan next month. So to the
rescue has come Suzy Yang, a Korean-American neighbor
who bought the business from Sakai, redecorated, and introduced
traditional Korean dishes like bibimbop and — echoing the
former theme — jap chae bop, thin noodles made from sweet
potatoes and sautéed with vegetables. Will Yang keep the
sweet spuds all over the menu — even (our favorite) the
baked tubers topped with peanut butter? "We will," she
says between giggles. "There's a limited but very loyal
sweet-potato clientele out there."
30 East 13th
Street
646-336-1685
· Cuisine: Korean |
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Tocqueville Cafe
For an elegant urban restaurant,
Tocqueville
is doubly blessed by its proximity to New York City
nature (such as it is). Not only is it up the street
from the Union Square Greenmarket — it also happens to
face a trio of pear trees, the perfect backdrop for
the restaurant's new sidewalk café. And though chef
Marco Moreira has devised a new alfresco menu of light,
luxurious bites like Brazilian crab cake with malagueta-pepper-and-lime
vinaigrette, a mini-burger with lobster and tomato relish,
and haché lobster salad, we're most excited about the
return of his prosciutto-and-asiago panini, accessorized
with white-truffle oil and a sunny-side-up pheasant
egg.
15 East 15th
Street
212-647-1515
· Cuisine: Eclectic
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