28th
Locanda Verde
This post concludes my much belated part 3 of 3 post on my April NYC Adventure. For Sunday brunch, my foodie contingent put on our game faces after a late Saturday night and headed to Locanda Verde in Tribeca on Easter Sunday… although none of us were really celebrating. This restaurant also received a James Beard nomination for best new restaurant but lost in the finals to Marea.
To start, we orderd the Pastry Misti del Giorno - Karen Demasco’s breakfast pastries, which were simply delightful. The four of us split each of the confections so we’d all could have a taste. Great pastries and I don’t remember too much more since it was so long ago.
For my main, I ordered the Uova Modenese - cotechino hash, spinach, tomato hollandaise:
This was exactly the comfort I was looking for after a long night at Apotheke. Eggs, ham and spinach were adroitly combined to create this perfectly balanced dish. The addition of artisan bread was foreboding of what couldn’t be consumed with flatware, facilitating a spotless plate and contented stomach.
Rachel and Nicole ordered the Wood Fired Uova Al Forno with corona beans, mozzarella and black tuscan kale:
This dish sounded and looked quite good at presentation but turned out to be an executional disaster! At first the eggs were terribly underdone. The dish was taken back to the kitchen and remade, curing the egg issue. However, the beans were still quite underdone even with hard yolks continuing the preparation nightmare. It was a nice try, but a failure… twice for BOTH of them. It’s been a long while since I’ve been served something so poorly prepared, unfortunately none of us had the will or heart to bring it to their attention a second time. I hope that it was an isolated incident, because it was definitely a scar on our experience.
Aside from this, we enjoyed our experience, and I would definitely get Locanda Verde a second try though in hopes that it just wasn’t our day. Unfortunately though, there are far too many restaurants to try in NYC so it will probably be a long while before I return.
