I decided to give Loqui another shot today, and it was so much better than my first visit. The mushrooms were decidedly smokier. However, I now realize that my last visit was literally marred by eating lukewarm tacos, so everything was rather bland and underwhelming. Eating them piping hot, I could appreciate the coalescing of the handmade flour tortillas, guacamole, beans, cheese, and the smoke-kissed mushrooms. As per @Dommy’s suggestion, I added the salsa seca to my tacos, and it boosted the flavors and provided a nice, crunchy counterpoint. Thanks also to @Chowseeker1999 for his/her multiple reviews of Loqui.
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I visited Loqui for the first time on Friday night. I thought it was great! Loved the tortillas and thought the asada and mushroom tacos were muy solid. I fuzzed up and didn’t use that salsa though!
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Was in NY over the last week and did the David Chang tri-fecta. Momofuku noodle bar, momofuku milk bar, momofuku ko.
Momofuku noodle bar was quite good. Pork buns were tasty–nothing special, but well executed. Best dish was this chilled spicy noodle dish with candied nuts and Taiwanese sausage. Nice combination of sweet and heat–very addictive.
Momofuku milk bar was not for me. Perhaps I just don’t get it. The cereal milk ice cream was just overly sweet–was over it after a couple bites. Far inferior even within its class, for example, to the soft serve at Honeymee. The crack pie–not sure what this is supposed to taste like, but I didn’t enjoy it.
Momofuku Ko was something of a disaster. This was, without alcohol, 265 a person after tax and tip. There were 18 courses. Many of them were good; others just okay. I don’t have the patience or time to go course by course, but a couple of examples:
–One of the courses that sounded the best to me was razor clams in a pineapple broth. But the broth was overpoweringly sweet–felt like Dole pineapple juice. Now obviously it was not. But there was no balance in the broth.
–One of the famous courses is aged rib eye with their own version of A-1, served with a “churro” that is actually a potato in churro form. Fun looking dish, but in the end, the steak was overwhelmed by A-1 and the churro potato was like…a decent french fry. Just nothing spectacular.
–The course that concerned me the most was chantarelle and baked egg in a dashi. After a series of early, whacky courses, this was supposed to be the comfort course. But it was all wrong. The egg was overcooked. The dashi was bland. The conception of this course was right, but the execution just wasn’t there.
–My dining partner and I ate almost none of a “chicken pie,” which was layered with chicken liver. As the 16th course, covered in a cream sauce, this was the last thing we wanted at that point in the meal.
This is not to say there were not excellent courses. There was a deft foie gras tart, a delicious dessert with rhubarb and dehydrated cake, and a spectacular dish of sweet potato mousse, creme fraiche, and caviar. There were just too many misses on this evening. And at the price point, I found myself thinking back to a meal I had at L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, in a similar “casual tasting menu” context that just blew this out of the water in conception and execution.
A couple of pics:
Sweet potato mousse, caviar, creme fraiche.
Nice steak ruined by sauce and dumb potato.
Foie gras tart with lychee and other stuff. Frozen and shaved foie over the top.
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Thanks for the report back on all 3 Momofukus. Sounds unfortunate (Momofuku Ko), especially dropping $265 per person.
Glad I decided against those Ko reservations then!
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As usual, funny and tasty too.
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Thanks for the report back. I can understand the MilkBar comments. That said, I really like a lot of their stuff, specifically their cookies. I was also pleasantly surprised by the truffles. But I also tried the cereal milk just for kicks and got no where near finishing it, so maybe that flavor is just a sweet dud.
@Ns1 - Same! I actually had reservations but ended up cancelling.
Nice @PorkyBelly. That was a lot of tacos. Glad you were able to get that many. Which were your favs?
Entirely possible I just ordered the wrong things I suppose.
OSpent Friday morning at Grand Central Market.
Dropped by Wexler’s for a half sturgeon and half smoked salmon everything bagel. I am in love with the salmon…there was an interesting funk to the sturgeon and bones that I wasn’t a fan of.
I know that Bombo isn’t particularly popular, but the paella rice was quite good. I will say that I miss the soccorat. The seafood was cooked well, and the aroma of the saffron lobster broth was so good! The honey ginseng limeade was also quite good.
I had to stop by McConnell’s for ice cream. I had the Whiskey Praline and Earl Grey with Butter Biscuits. I loved both flavors.
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Forgot to mention that I got a box of these, too.
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Love Macarons
Glad it tasted good. But that soggy-looking dish is more of a risotto, not paella. But again, I’m glad you liked it.
No, you’re right. It should be called risotto. That would actually sell better.
Highlights were:
Mariscos La Guerrerense - seafood tostados. So authentic donald trump wanted to build a wall around it.
Taco Maria - smoked sturgeon taco
Coni’seafood - fried shrimp jicama taco
Guerrilla tacos - scallop tostato
Mariscos Jalisco - tacos de camaron
Monkey Bar + RBTA - japanese braised pork belly and ponzu salmon tostada
Tacos Kokopelli - fish and squid ink
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Friday was the first day of the new collaboration between Sanrio and Plan Check featuring Sanrio’s characters Chococat and Pompompurin.
Sunday was the We Run The Grove fun run where you could do either the half marathon distance or 10k. My wife and kids did the 10k and I did the half marathon. Afterwards we went to Canter’s where I had the pastrami reuben and then bought some black and white cookies to take home.
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Sanrio and Plan Check
[/quote] That’s an interesting/curious thing they do. We went to Plan Check earlier this year and they had a Hello Kitty Menu.
Kudos to you and your family on the marathons!
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No seriously, did you buy this or did you just get some buttered corn and threw some uni on top?
More importantly, how was it?
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