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I’m addicted to the number one spicy banh mi. I could eat one everyday for the rest of my life. Every time I go in there I think I’m going to try something different and then I smell it and get the craving for the number one.
Chinatown / Little Italy
Vietnamese / Sandwiches
DESPANA
I eat my breakfast at Despana almost once a week. I get a tortilla Serrano. It’s an amazing place. We had a fish wrapped in Serrano ham on the menu for awhile, so I used to stop in there twice a week just to get the Serrano ham for the dish. Now that the dish isn’t on the menu, I still stop over there just to get my breakfast tortilla.
Soho
Spanish Specialty Food & Cafe
Restaurants - New York, NY
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Chef Marc Forgione - Recommendations
September 21, 2011
Restaurant Marc Forgione - Tribeca - New York, NY
PEASANT
I only get one or two days off a week, so I try to eat in different places. I love going to Peasant as much as possible. I love Frank’s cooking, it’s smoky, it’s soulful, and you don’t have to worry about it. You know when you order those sardines out of that oven, that it’s going to be delicious. The baby octopus with the chilies - I just love it!
Nolita
Italian
USHIWAKAMARU
136 West Houston Street, New York NY 10012
T: 212.228.4181
It’s my favorite for sushi.
Greenwich Village
Japanese / Sushi
I love going for wine and food. It’s a great place to go to unwind.
Tribeca
Wine Bar
SMITH AND MILLS
All the cocktail places in Tribeca, we kinda put them on a rotation.
Tribeca
American / Cocktails
Drinks - New York, NY
WARD III
All the cocktail places in Tribeca, we kinda put them on a rotation.
Tribeca
American
WEATHER UP
All the cocktail places in Tribeca, we kinda put them on a rotation.
Tribeca
Cocktails
THE LAZY OX CANTEEN
The food is good, it’s got a cool vibe, good service, and a nice atmosphere.
Downtown / Little Tokyo
New American
Restaurants - Los Angeles, CA
BARTOLOTTA RISTORANTE DE MARE
If you can afford it, one of the best meals I’ve had hands down was at Paul Bartolotta’s in the Wynn. It’s just fresh seafood from a chef who is passionate about fresh seafood. Just amazing.
Las Vegas Strip
Italian / Seafood
Restaurants - Las Vegas, NV
BEBO’S BBQ
Marginal Los Angeles I-20, Isla Verde, Carolina, PR 00979
T: 787.791.7115
Don’t get it confused, there are two, one if more commercial and the other is not a tourist place. The one I like is on the side of the road and you walk up and they have pig’s head, stuffed gallbladder and mofongo and you point at the stuff, they throw it on your plate and you sit there and have a good time.
Carolina
Roadside / Latin America
Restaurants - Puerto Rico
You don’t have to worry about the quality of what is coming. I’ll call them up and say I want to do a scallop special this week, can I have some beautiful scallops? I know if he says yes, that I don’t have to check them or worry about them. I know that they are coming and the quality will be there.
Downtown Portland / Online
Seafood Purveyor
Food Purveyors
CHEF’S GARDEN
T: 800.289.4644
For petite, cutesy stuff. Like pencil purple asparagus, micro-dandelion greens, beautiful baby butter radishes, stuff like that.
Online
Vegetable Purveyor
PAT LAFRIEDA MEATS
It’s where we get our meat for the restaurant.
New York
Meat Supplier
MANHATTAN FRUIT EXCHANGE
75 9th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
T: 212.989.2444
Chelsea Market
Produce (Fruit & Vegetables)
SATUR FARMS
Long Island / North Fork
Vegetable Farm
UNION SQUARE GREENMARKET
www.grownyc.org/unionsquaregreenmarket
North and west sides of Union Square Park
West 15th/ 16th Streets, New York, NY 10003
Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
Union Square West
Farmers Market
TRIBECA GREENMARKET
www.grownyc.org/tribecagreenmarket
Greenwich Street, between Chambers and Duane, New York, NY 10013
Open Wednesdays 4/6 to 12/21; Saturdays, year-round
Tribeca
Farmers Market
Markets - New York, NY
DEL MAGUEY
I love Ron Cooper’s stuff.
Mexico
Liquor / Spirit
Liquor / Spirits
MEZCAL PIERDE ALMAS
I love mezcal, I know it’s not for everybody. This one has two different flavors and one has a little bit of anise, believe it or not, and I take a couple of sips of it after eating, instead of grappa. The other one, they finish it after they are done roasting the agave, they put a turkey on top of the chimney for luck for the last ten hours. It’s really weird stuff.
Mexico
Liquor / Spirit
I think Mezcal is one of the most unique flavors. It’s smoky, it’s strong, it’s smooth. there is nothing else that tastes like mezcal.
MICROPLANE
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It’s a great way to finish off anything with a couple of turns of a lemon, a lime, an orange, even garlic on a microplane. There are so many things you can use it for. It has changed a lot of my cooking since it came out. Just gives you more of an opportunity to use different flavors.
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Who
Marc Forgione is the executive chef and co-owner of Restaurant Marc Forgione, a Contemporary American restaurant in New York.
Why
Marc’s career began at 16, working in his father’s kitchen at An American Place. He went on to becoming the corporate chef of the BLT Restaurant Group and in 2008, he opened his own restaurant, which was recently bestowed a Michelin star rating.
Recommended By
- Andrew & Anna Hellman of Teroforma
Recommendations
Marc Forgione’s recommendations for mezcals, food purveyors and where to eat, drink and shop in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Puerto Rico.