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EDITED BY ROB PATRONITE
AND ROBIN RAISFELD
Week of June 17, 2002
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best
of the week
NYLA
Restaurateur Bobby Ochs insists this New
Orleans-inflected brasserie isn't a theme restaurant -- but
it's still owned by Britney Spears. Please note: Nobody at your
table will laugh if you spill your vegetarian hominy stew and
say "Oops, I . . . "
52 East 41st Street
212-682-2860
· Cuisine: New Orleans brasserie
Dokpa
A common misperception about Tibetan
food is that it's vegetarian, and in fact at Tsampa, a
popular East Village Tibetan restaurant with a health-food
slant, the water is filtered, the produce is mostly organic,
and red meat is eschewed in favor of chicken and fish.
But Tibet also has a yak-eating tradition that, despite
the presence of a Jackson Heights restaurant called Tibetan
Yak, hasn't caught on here. So when the four Tibetan sisters
behind Tsampa opened Dokpa, they decided to distinguish
their new restaurant with more spice, more sauce, and,
in place of the long-haired Asian ox, lean organic beef
-- all of which can be found in the dokpa shapta, sautéed
sliced beef with jalapeños, ginger, and garlic.
136 West Houston
Street
212-995-5884
· Cuisine: Tibetan |
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Press 195
Now that the panini trend has reached
critical mass, with tiny electric kitchens dispensing
crispy grilled and pressed sandwiches everywhere from
Wall Street to the Bronx, it's hard to stand out from
the pack. Which is why Chris Evans, co-owner of Park
Slope's new Press 195, reveals that he and partner
Brian Karp are "staying away from panini." That's not
to say they're boycotting Italy at their sunny new sandwich-and-wine
bar -- only that they're also offering offbeat alternatives,
like marinated spicy grilled chicken cutlet with blue
cheese and carrots, roast pork with queso blanco and
pickled jalapeños, and grilled apples with yogurt cheese
and wildflower honey (one of several Hudson Valley condiments
Karp discovered during weekend jaunts and added to the
menu)
195 Fifth
Avenue, Brooklyn
718-857-1950
· Cuisine: Sandwich-and-Wine Bar
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Photo: From top to bottom- Deborah Ory; Kenneth Chen
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