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Chinese, Downtown, Food Halls, Restaurant Reviews

Northern Tiger

October 4, 2016 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

This stand at Hudson Eats slings some decent dumplings and noodles.

My wife, a friend and I came here after a crazy chocolate event at ICE to get something a little savory to balance the palate.

We tried an order of their special kung pao chicken dumplings.

These were chock full of good quality chicken, but they were a bit over-sauced and dense. Good flavors though.

The next dumplings we tried were some pan seared pork and chive fuckers.

These were much better. They had great texture and contained the right balance of juices and meat inside. Very nice.

Finally, we tried an order of sour and spicy chicken noodles.

This contained two types of noodles: spaghetti-like clear “glass noodles,” and wide, flat noodles.

I think they could have used a hit of spice to them, but the chicken meat was high quality and the flavors worked. This place is worth a shot if you’re in the area, especially for the pan seared pork dumps.

NORTHERN TIGER
At Hudson Eats
225 Liberty St
New York, NY 10281

Education

Guide to NYC Food Halls

December 23, 2015 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

Food halls are becoming a big thing in NYC. At these places, you’ll find tons of small booths or kiosks, typically inhabited by some of NYC’s top restaurants or food merchants. In the last few years there has been an explosion of these joints popping up all over, with big-named chefs and celebs like Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali throwing their weight behind the idea (yes, that’s a fat joke about Mario). This page is your resource for exploring them. Essentially it’s just a list, with an occasional link for the ones that I’ve visited and decided to write about in the past:

Berg’n
Broadway Bites (seasonal)
Chelsea Market
City Kitchen
Columbus Circle Holiday Market (seasonal)
Eataly
Eataly Downtown
Essex Street Market
Flushing Underground Food Mall
Food Hall Industry City
Gansevoort Market
Grand Central Terminal
Gotham West Market
Hester Street Fair
Hudson Eats
K-Town Food hall
Le District
Madison Square Eats (semi-annual)
Nordic Food Hall Grand Central
Penn Plates (seasonal)
The Pennsy
The Plaza Food Hall
Reading Terminal Market (Philadelphia)
Smorgasburg
Todd English Food Hall
TurnStyle
Union Square Greenmarket
Union Square Holiday Market (seasonal)
Urban Space Vanderbilt
Urban Space Garment District

COMING SOON:

Anthony Bourdain’s food market at Pier 57 (August 2016)
Danny Meyer’s food hall at Hudson Yards
Dekalb Market Hall (currently closed)

Commentary, Downtown, Food Halls

Hudson Eats

April 12, 2015 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

Hudson Eats is a food hall down in Battery Park City. There’s a bunch of good shit here to try. I’m glad to see more stuff like this popping up around the city.

Blue Ribbon Sushi:

Blue Bottle Coffee:

Little Muenster – a grilled cheese shop:

Northern Tiger Chinese food:

Mighty Quinn’s BBQ joint. I reviewed their main location HERE.

Num Pang – great asian sandwich shop. Check out my review HERE.

Oh and by the way – really nice view from the seating area:

Salad joint for pussies:

Dos Toros:

Dig Inn:

Skinny Pizza – likely for pussies:

(Titty) Sprinkles bakery:

Olive’s:

There’s Black Seed Bagels, which is all the rage right now (see my separate review):

And there’s also an Umami Burger outpost (see my separate review):

Another note about this place: they just opened up a fancy French food hall on the lower level, called Le District. See my write up of that place HERE.

Deli, Downtown, Food Halls, Restaurant Reviews

Black Seed Bagels

April 12, 2015 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

I don’t understand the infatuation with Black Seed Bagels. They’re small, incredibly overpriced, and taste no better than any other good bagel shop in Manhattan. This satellite location at Hudson Eats was understaffed. It took way too long for my bagel to come out, because there was only one person making orders (and there were only two people ahead of me on line when I walked up).

Complaints aside, I did like my bagel. I ordered an everything bagel toasted with cream cheese, salmon, tomato, red onion and capers. The bagel wasn’t very toasted and came to me kind of cold. Not the worst sin (I like my salmon and cream cheese to be cold), but a toasty bagel would have been titties.

BLACK SEED BAGELS
Brookfield Place
200 Vesey St.
New York, NY 10080

Brooklyn, Burgers, Downtown, Food Halls, Press Reviews

Umami Burger

April 12, 2015 Johnny Prime Leave a comment

My wife and I took a stroll through Hudson Eats and took down one of these burgers. I gotta say; it WAS pretty good. We had the manly burger and an order of truffled up fries. Very nice, though with a Six Point Sweet Action the total came to about $28. I can totally get behind the big hype on this joint though. Truffle burger might have to be next!

On a second visit to this location, I lost a little of the oomph for this place. My wife and I ordered a sunny side burger (with the egg on top), a truffle burger (sorely in need of a crunch element), and the Korean fries (big let down).

The sunny side burger was pretty great, mostly because the softness of the bun and burger were broken up by a parmesan chip and some arugula. However, the meat was well done – very overcooked.

The truffle burger was delicious, with truffle cheese and all that oniony goodness. It was cooked to about medium well, which is okay for me but not ideal. The meat tasted overworked (very uniform and springy), a little greasy, and like it was not fresh/formerly frozen. I’ve had better burgers at diners. Worst thing about this was that it was in dire need of a crunch element. No lettuce? Come on, people…

The Korean fries sucked. They were sweet potato fries with some kimchi on them. Soggy too – no crispy crunch whatsoever.

The onion rings, however, were pretty good. They were very fluffy with an almost dough batter fried around them. Pretty fun and quite filling in the tummy.

I went back to the location in Williamsburg recently for an 8-burger tasting, and I have to say this place is back on the up. While our meal was free due to it being a press event, the quality of all the burgers we tried was top notch. They still need to work lettuce or crunch elements into their burgers, but overall it was a big success.