Entries from Serious Eats: New York tagged with 'Joe's'

My Top Ten NYC Slices

By popular demand, here's a list of my top ten pizza slices in NYC:

1) DiFara (you all know where it is)

2) Adrienne's (Old Stone St., Wall Street)

3) Patsy's (117th and First Avenue)

4) Joe and Pat's (Staten Island)

5) Nunzio's (Staten Island)

6) Sullivan Street Bakery

7) Sal and Carmine's (102nd and Broadway)

8) Joe's (Carmine Street and Park Slope)

9) Grandma Slices at Maffei (22nd and Sixth)

10) Louie and Ernie's (Bronx)

Anybody beg to differ?

The week's best bites

It was a week of memorable bites:

The prosciutto balls at Joe's Superette on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. There's still very little else on the shelves in the store, but those creamy, tangy, peppery, crunchy prosciutto balls rock. And the best thing: They're 50 cents each. I buy 'em by the dozen. Photo courtesy of iheartbacon

The Kobe Beef appetizer at Morimoto. It's one of the first preparations of Kobe Beef that makes me understand what all the fuss it about, and why it may actually be worth the money. At Morimoto it's carpaccio thin and every little slice is decadently rich, meaty and fatty at the same time. I also have to say that this was the first time I ate in the main dining room at Morimoto, and it was a lot of fun: fun to look at, fun to eat in, and fun to be able to actually talk to my tablemates without screaming. They have these great fiiberglass sheets between the tables that really do soundproof the place.

The cayenne cheese sticks at Murray's Cheese Shop. I have had a ton of cheese sticks in my time, but the Murray's cheesesticks were buttery, tangy and had just the right amount of kick to them.

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