Thursday, April 24, 2008

Macaroni and Cheese - Islero, the New Tapas Spot in Turtle Bay, Needs To Find its Footing - Village Voice

Macaroni and Cheese - Islero, the New Tapas Spot in Turtle Bay, Needs To Find its Footing - Village Voice

After you eat the bacon, cut into the egg and the rest of the yolk flows out to enrich the wild mushrooms below. The plums and figs, a mix of port-soaked plums and figs with Serrano ham and Garoxta cheese, gets a manic zig-zag of balsamic reduction all over it. But fancy garnishes come off as silly when they’re trotted out just for the sake of it—especially at a place with a TV at the bar playing ESPN. But I refuse to pay $14 for a guy behind the bar to pour a little bit of bourbon into a glass, top it off with “chai-infused” sweet vermouth, and .....

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