Eating Our Way Across the Lower East Side

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Crumbs Bake Shop - Baba Booey Peanut butter and Chocolate
Crumbs Bake Shop Banana Split - My Favorite
NY food tour - Stop #1 Gray's Papaya Natural skin on it so there is a nice snap.
NY food tour - Stop #2
One Sandwich for all 3 of us. The pastrami was VERY moist.
Eating Our Way Across the Lower East Side
NY food tour - Stop #3 Yonah Schimmel for Knishes.
The man wouldn't let me take pics inside so this was the only one I could take.
Best Bialy ever!
NY food tour - Stop #6 The Mecca of the donut world
NY food tour - Stop #3 was Russ and Daughters for smoked fish and Stop #4 was for an Choc. Egg Creme soda. Stop #5 was Kussar's Bialys
Goes to show you that you don't need 32 flavors. A handful is hard enough.
Raspberry Cake - Light, flavorful and moist
The ultimate - PB&J donut
5 Napkin Burger Need at last 10!
Lunch at Bar Boulud - crevette, tomate et laitue shrimp, tomato confit, bibb lettuce horseradish yogurt dressing
Fennel velouté
mesclun provençal arugula, olives, fennel, tomato radishes, fried artichokes white anchovies
Eating Our Way Across the Lower East Side
croque monsieur ou madame warm sandwich of ham and gruyére
boudin blanc truffled white sausage, mashed potato
oeufs florentine poached eggs with ham, spinach hollandaise sauce, sourdough toast
home fries french fries

Before we left foggy San Francisco, I searched the Chow boards for some interesting fare for our family trip to NY. I came across a response from the great “Kathryn” to “Top Food Recs in the West Village.”

Kathryn wrote, “I highly recommend RGR's self guided Lower East Side Gustatory tour: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/493333."

So I checked it out and thought it was the perfect thing for the family. I knew it would keep my adventurous palate happy, my husband’s pocketbook overjoyed, and a great food experience for my 12-year-old daughter. We started about 10 am or so and finished up at about 1pm. We followed all the recommendations, except for we took the nicer streets (less cars) and we added Sugar Sweet Sunshine based on a213b writeup, “3 Week Chowfest; Help!!!” http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/611116. If you have the time you really should read his WHOLE 3 week review. I had just a few days and a husband and daughter to keep happy, so I couldn’t indulge in many of his picks, but am so happy we added Sugar Sweet Sunshine to the list.

In addition to our tour, we went to 5 Napkin Burger (messy and quite delicious) and Bar Boulud. I am still seething from our snobby service at Boulud. The food was phenomenal but the service was appalling. I was tweeting the whole time and @rickGresh (a chef in Chicago) tweeted back, “every time I've been to boulud its the same, palm beach was the worst!” and “yep, worst service of my life, and both palm beach and bar b was the same manager! So sad, daniel deserves better!”

Check out our slideshow of the tour. Foodies eat with their eyes!! The last 2 slides are not from the NY tour, but I had to include them: The fantastic cupcakes at Crumbs Bakeshop in Huntington.

Cheers,
Angela Camacho