EATING & DRINKING
HEROES Pigging out ...
Kitchen Krav Maga
ANA MORENO Cafe Ole
Ana's 20-year neighborhood reign is one of the longest in Hell's Kitchen. Her secret weapon? Dance! Ana confuses and dazzles her enemies with a series of dance moves until she puts them in a tizzy. In her spare time she trains Krav Maga instructors. But during the day at Cafe Ole, she and her trusted assistants have been dishing out fresh sandwiches and salads longer than anyone else I know. Word has it that her soups have healing powers. They can cure summertime sadness in the winter!
W54TH ST - 9TH/10TH AVE
“MATT MURDOCK AND DONALD TRUMP GOT NOTHING ON CHEF GUERRIERI, WHOSE MISSION IS SIMPLE: MAKE HELL'S KITCHEN GREAT AGAIN!”
MICHAEL GUERRIERI City Sandwich
Peacekeeping powers
GAZALA HALABI
Matt Murdock and Donald Trump got nothing on Chef Guerrieri, whose mission is simple: make Hell's Kitchen great again! He does it by fueling his sandwiches with the absolute best ingredients money can buy, and in the process putting Hell's Kitchen on the sandwich map. He didn’t rest until he found the right Portuguese bread in Newark. Rumor has it he spent an entire summer sleeping with black pigs in Nicaragua in order to study them, giving him the nickname The Pig Whisperer. One bite of his Roasted pig 'Roberto,' a Tuesday special, and you’ll see why. And sometimes, when I feel particularly naughty, I go for the Pastel de Crema, aka "I can't believe this is not Pastel de Nata.”
At the end of the day, this is where the heroes and villains of Hell's Kitchen get together under one roof, and put away their differences and their iPhones. Until the finest bourekas in the western hemisphere, and the silky smooth, severely underrated hummus arrives. And when things get antsy, all it takes is a five-second trademark Gazala stare to remind everyone that, at the end of the day, we are more alike than unalike. I found this on a Dating for Bagels Lovers blog. Peacing out! Ziggy.
9TH AVE - 45TH/46TH ST www.citysandwichnyc.com
9TH AVE - 48TH/49TH ST www.gazalasplace.com
Gazala's Place
ABOUT ZIGGY A father of two, husband to one, Ziggy has been exploring NYC's food scene for the past 30 years. Author of the Hell's Kitchen Survival Guide, Ziggy has been blogging about this most underrated neighborhood and more on EatingWithZiggy.com. When he is not driving his kids around, he leads tourists and locals on food tours in Hell's Kitchen, Brooklyn and other neighborhoods. He can be reached at EatingWithZiggy@gmail.com
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