I hate restaurants

user_183 · Post by **user_183** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 10:57 pm

Nirav told me I had to go to Ozu on Amsterdam and 87/8th. We did last night before hitting Lincoln Center for Beethoven Op. 132. It's a simple and beautiful dining room and they serve perfect Japanese-derived orgo-vegan cuisine as well as Indian food, which I didn't try. Wonderful root veggies: plenty of lotus on the menu, and the sweet potato was practically mashed, but still somehow retaining its own shape. We had a tofu (sadly not homemade) in a miso-seitan reduction that was very nice, subtle. Lots of Kabocha on the table and tea as you walk in the door. If both the japanese and the indian halfs of the menu are, as I suspect, grounded in philosohy, then this might be the only Ayurvedic-Macro hybrid in this city full of each separate type. If you lean vegan, or ever need to detoxify after a good noise-fest or drunken binge, this place will tip you back into balance. My only complaint was the lack of daikon, which is no short supply at Mana, the whole foods establishment three blocks up Amsterdam (where I heartily reccommend the okonomiyaki, buckwheat-veggie pancake with a sundried tomato reduction sauce, delicious.)

(Let the veggie jokes fly)

user_3 · Post by **user_3** » Sat Jan 22, 2005 11:13 pm

I think I went there when I was in NYC for the ErstQuake shows.
Or maybe it was full and we had to go across the street.

Either way, mind if I move this over to I Hate Everything?

user_183 · Post by **user_183** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:54 pm

TexasMile wrote:
Either way, mind if I move this over to I Hate Everything?

Please, sorry about that. I was high on seitan stew.

Didn't you guys go to Soba-ya? That place is beautiful. My wife tells me that the womens room toilet seat is heated! Not the mens.

Post by **mudd** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:09 pm

we went to soba-ya, but it was full. we didn't go to that other place either, though.

this thread is now devoted to restaurant reviews, though maybe just in NYC.

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Post by **grisha** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:11 pm

ruminates wrote:Didn't you guys go to Soba-ya? That place is beautiful. My wife tells me that the womens room toilet seat is heated! Not the mens.

they probably don't expect you to eat that much.

nirav · Post by **nirav** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 8:19 pm

Ozu is a Bobuffs discovery, he deserves the credit for it. It's been marvellous for the detoxing purposes you suggest.

The Okinomiyaki that I know best is across the street from Soba-ya, at the closet sized Otafuku. I don't eat it so much anymore, but I was eating it nearly daily at one point, along with the takoyaki (octopus fritters.) Delicious stuff, it's a perfect break if you're in the middle of a bender in the East Village.

user_260 · Post by **user_260** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 10:16 am

icefactory wrote: The Okinomiyaki that I know best is across the street from Soba-ya, at the closet sized Otafuku. I don't eat it so much anymore, but I was eating it nearly daily at one point, along with the takoyaki (octopus fritters.) Delicious stuff, it's a perfect break if you're in the middle of a bender in the East Village.

i've never been to a restaurant in the states that had okinomiyaki on the menu, but i'm curious--do you make it yourself, or does it come out to you already prepared? if its the former, i definitely know which place to eat at the next time i'm in nyc...