Welcome to part two of my 2011 New York food porn. I got too hungry working on the first post, so I had to divide it up. Here are the vegetarian restaurants we sampled in the city in May, with my favorites marked with asterisks.
*Dirt Candy is a tiny little restaurant celebrating vegetables in all their glory. Each dish features variations on a single vegetable (even the desserts), and so many of them sounded good that we had trouble choosing. Above is the mushroom appetizer. Reservations are a must.
* More vegetarian goodness was to be found at Gobo. I love their creative menu full of tasty Asian fusion dishes. Plus this time they managed to kick off a bubble tea obsession which lasted all the way to Montreal before screeching to a halt back in Munich, where I can buy tapioca pearls but no giant straws through which to suck them up. But I digress.
Counter is a vegetarian restaurant with creatively-named cocktails. The food was pretty good, but not quite as good as I’d hoped. Watching my aunt blush while trying to order a “slap and tickle” was pretty fun.
Speaking of cocktails, PDT (Please Don’t Tell) is a ‘speakeasy’ with a secret entrance – you go into a telephone booth in a hot dog restaurant and dial the phone to be let in. PDT is so secret that it’s been profiled in the New York Times only a couple times. Cocktails are $15 each and quite tasty. The atmosphere is fun enough to be worth at least one visit. (This one is totally not vegetarian.)
More vegetarian at Zen Palate, where the rose petals (homemade soy crepes with wolfberry seeds & garden vegetables) lunch special was particularly tasty, no matter what a wolfberry turns out to be.
For our splurge meal of this trip we headed back to Pure Food & Wine for some vegetarian haute cuisine. It’s not cheap, but sometimes you just have to take your fancy vegetarian where you can get it.
Whew, now I’m hungry again. What’s your favorite place to eat in NYC? Or your favorite vegetarian restaurant in the whole world? What I’m trying to say is this: I love getting restaurant recommendations. Please share. Danke.
Gorgeous photos! I would love to do this.
Thanks, Expat! It’s funny how blogging changes you – I used to feel self-conscious about photographing my food in restaurants; now it’s second nature. 🙂
hey, have u seen that now there is a bubble tea cafe in downtown Munich? it’s on the street behind sendlingerstasse–here’s the website http://www.cafe-sunshine.de/ enjoy if u haven’t already!
I’ve heard about it but haven’t made it there yet. Maybe I’ll bring some of the Oktoberfest guests by. Thanks for the link!