Posted by Joe DiStefano, June 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM
It's like the Israeli Kozy Shack.
When most eaters think of Main Street in Queens, the first thing that comes to mind is the wealth of incredible Chinese food that’s available in Flushing. But if you travel Southeast along Main Street, you’ll eventually find decidedly non-Chinese ethnic food and shopping in Kew Gardens Hills, an enclave of Orthodox Jews that is home to several excellent falafel and shwarma spots. There are also plenty of markets with all sorts of Israeli groceries, like one of my all-time favorite finds, the chocolate pudding known as Milky. The good folks at Israel’s Strauss have managed to make a product whose creaminess rivals Kozy Shack’s (making the stuff aptly named). Each cup contains a dairy-rich chocolate pudding topped with airy whipped cream.
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Posted by Ed Levine, January 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM
I was passing E.A.T. yesterday, and the siren call of Eli Zabar's overpriced but usually delicious food got the best of me.
I ordered four items, all sweets; a quarter-pound of the fruit coffee cake ($3), a mini chocolate cupcake ($2), a black and white cookie, and a cup of Eboni and Ivory Pudding (chocolate and vanilla) ($4).
The coffee cake was reasonably moist and had thick veins of dried fruit, but it had too much orange rind in it for my taste. The mini chocolate cupcake was very chocolatey if a little dry. The black and white cookie tasted less than fresh.
The clear winner of the quartet was the pudding combo. It was almost obscenely rich and creamy with loads of real vanilla and high quality milk chocolate flavor. It might be the best pudding to be had anywhere in New York outside the butterscotch pudding at Sweet Melissa's in Brooklyn.
Note to all Ed Levine Diet Helpers: I adhered to my one-bite rule for all four items mentioned above, except for the pudding. I had two spoonfuls. It was just too good.
E.A.T.
Address: 1064 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10128 (b/n 80th and 81st streets)
Phone: 212-772-0022
