MenuRaves New York City Restaurants » locavore http://www.menuraves.com Rave about your NYC Faves Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:39:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Torrisi Italian Specialties opens at 250 Mulberry http://www.menuraves.com/2009/12/31/torrisi-italian-specialties-opens-at-250-mulberry/ http://www.menuraves.com/2009/12/31/torrisi-italian-specialties-opens-at-250-mulberry/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:36:58 +0000 MenuRaves http://www.menuraves.com/?p=241 Torrisi Italian Specialties is now open! This is the Italian Deli food of my youth but really, really, really tasty, with no ingredients from Italy. Instead, the food is local sourced Italian style, incorporating fresh local and domestic products, rather than high carbon footprint imported ingredients. This is a good trend for the local sustainable [...]]]>

Now Open

Torrisi Italian Specialties is now open! This is the Italian Deli food of my youth but really, really, really tasty, with no ingredients from Italy. Instead, the food is local sourced Italian style, incorporating fresh local and domestic products, rather than high carbon footprint imported ingredients. This is a good trend for the local sustainable food movement.

On opening day, I enjoyed the delicious, garlicky fresh roasted turkey sandwich on seeded semolina bread . And for my last lunch of 2009, I had the Chicken Parm. Go get this sandwich now. If you’ve grown up on these – you’ve never had a chicken parm this intoxicating – so good – from the fresh cheese to the perfect spicy tomato sauce.

There are several tables for eating in or you can take out.

Torrisi Italian Specialties
250 Mulberry Street (bet. Prince and Spring)

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1) Local Oysters – 2009 was the year of Oyster Terroir awareness from far flung waters. 2010 will bring a larger variety of local Oysters to NYC Menus

2) Burger Hybrids – from the Schnitzel Burger at Filet Burger w/ Edible Strings?

Tenderloin Roast Burger w/ Edible String

MenuRaves NYC 2010 Food Trends that we think are going to take off in the New Year:

1) Local Oysters – 2009 was the year of Oyster Terroir awareness from far flung waters. 2010 will bring a larger variety of local Oysters to NYC Menus

2) Burger Hybrids – from the Schnitzel Burger at @schnitzeltruck to the Cheeseburger Sausage available at the Meat Hook in Brooklyn, @themeathook, burger hybrids are going to trend in 2010.

3) MICRO-Local Restaurants – The 100 Mile Diet is so 2009… the 10 mile diet for 2010…

Rooftop Farms – http://rooftopfarms.org/ - A 6000 Square Foot Organic Vegie farm on top of a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Local Restaurants that serve Rooftop Farms Produce:

Vesta Trattoria and Wine Bar – Italian Restaurant in Astoria, Queens
Anella Brooklyn – 222 Franklin St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 … (718) 389-8100
Marlow and Sons -  81 Broadway Brooklyn NY 11211 – (718) 384-1441
Eat Cafe – 124 Messerole Ave. Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222 (718) 389-8083

4) Non-pig Bacon & non Bacon-pig – all those insert bacon here recipes are so 2009… 2010 will add some variation with non-pork bacon and OPP- Other parts of the Pig

5) Pacojet Cocktails – “waiter, there’s a dessert in my booze”.

6) Micro Desserts – mini-cupcakes in 2009 were just the start…

]]> http://www.menuraves.com/2009/12/21/2010-menuraves-food-predictions/feed/ 2 Local / Sustainable Food Links – NYC http://www.menuraves.com/2009/11/11/local-sustainable-food-links-nyc/ http://www.menuraves.com/2009/11/11/local-sustainable-food-links-nyc/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:01:27 +0000 MenuRaves http://www.menuraves.com/?p=129 Here are some resources to better understand the local / sustainable food movement and how you can participate:

http://100milediet.org/

http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ @slowfoodUSA @slowfoodNYC

http://rooftopfarms.org/ – A 6000 Square Foot Organic Vegie farm on top of a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Local Restaurants that serve Rooftop Farms Produce:

http://vestavino.com/ – [...]]]> Here are some resources to better understand the local / sustainable food movement and how you can participate:

http://100milediet.org/

http://www.slowfoodusa.org/ @slowfoodUSA @slowfoodNYC

http://rooftopfarms.org/ – A 6000 Square Foot Organic Vegie farm on top of a warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Local Restaurants that serve Rooftop Farms Produce:

http://vestavino.com/ – Italian Restaurant in Astoria, Queens
http://anellabrooklyn.com/ - 222 Franklin St. Brooklyn, NY 11222 … (718) 389-8100
http://marlowandsons.com/ - 81 Broadway Brooklyn NY 11211 – (718) 384-1441
http://eatgreenpoint.com/ – 124 Messerole Ave. Greenpoint, Brooklyn 11222 (718) 389-8083

http://www.widowsholeoysters.com/ The Widow’s Hole Oyster Company is located at the eastern end of Long Island, one hundred miles from Manhattan – Restaurants that serve WHO Oysters - http://www.widowsholeoysters.com/pages/clients.html

http://nysunworks.org/ – The Science Barge is a prototype, sustainable urban farm and environmental education center. It is the only fully functioning demonstration of renewable energy supporting sustainable food production in New York City. To see it visit this site – http://www.groundworkyonkers.org

http://www.justfood.org/ – Just Food works to increase access to fresh, healthy food in NYC and to support the local farms and urban gardens that grow it.

http://www.cenyc.org/greenmarket – Greenmarket Farmers Markets

http://www.gustorganics.com/ @GustOrganics – NYC’s first certified Green/Organic Restaurant serving all organic and some local grown options.

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