NEW YORK (AP) — The idea: With Food Network star Guy Fieri and comedian Judy Gold as my guides, find a best spots for Super Bowl-style muck in Manhattan.
The reality: Fire adult “When Harry Met Sally” and loop it on a caf� stage (yes, a moaning). Now blast a giggle track, afterwards supplement a profanity-spewing rabbi, adequate X-rated explanation to describe most of a evening’s discourse unquotable, and such greedy portions of high-fat food that by a finish during slightest one of us would be vomiting.
You have a clarity of a evening. Which is to say, pairing adult with Fieri and Gold was some-more amusing, though reduction helpful, than hoped.
With a Super Bowl entrance to a New York area subsequent month, we wanted to know where to go for a over-the-top transport we’ve come to associate with a large game. So final month we got a debate from Fieri, a master of too-much-is-not-enough eating. He’s pimping a new deteriorate of his show, “Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off,” so he brought along Gold, one of his co-stars.
A small predictably, we started a dusk during Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, Fieri’s Times Square grill finished as famous by a sardonic New York Times examination as by a luminary himself. This was my initial revisit and — loyal to a hype — this is not a place to go for good food. It was, however, an glorious place for good grub.
As Fieri regaled us with his Super Bowl celebration food truth — “You can’t usually sequence 10 pizzas! That’s a throwaway! That’s an insult to a game. You’ve got to put some time into it.” — a assault began.
Something called Mongolian duck wings bathed in a gummy honey-soy salsa had Gold groan loudly. “MMMMM! MMMMMM! Oh my God, it’s so good! AHRRRRRRR!” And solely to spasmodic ask waitresses about gynecological procedures (just hurl with it), this flattering most became her soundtrack for a evening.
We were all soft with Round 2, a shelve of sashimi tacos (crispy wontons filled with ahi tuna, mango jicama salsa and a soy glaze). Knowing we had 3 some-more dishes to come, we could and should have stopped there. We didn’t. General Tso’s pig handle — a large hunk of tender, honeyed beef — landed with a whack on a list and in a guts. It was followed closely by a gigantic French drop sandwich.
“I don’t consider everybody will allow to this, though we put in as most time and courtesy when I’m putting together a Super Bowl widespread as we do Thanksgiving,” Fieri said. “This is a biggest day of a biggest game.”
Still it came. A burger surfaced with mac and cheese, bacon and 6 varieties of cheese. Bowls of beef, sausage and bacon chili. Tiramisu. Bread pudding doused with Jack Daniels.
And afterwards we piled into a car. Up next, Ben’s, a kosher deli on 38th Street. Gold: “Ben’s?” she yelled. “We’re gonna have some pastrami!”
We did. And matzo round soup. And pressed cabbage. And latkes. And a knish. And kreplach (a dumpling). And a rabbi so vehement to stop by a counter he forsaken F-bombs while revelation Fieri what a fan he is.
But a Jewish deli for Super Bowl grub? Not your required accompaniment to spreads customarily populated with guacamole and nachos. But Fieri and Gold concluded — either it’s classics like duck soup or bagels and cream cheese, Jewish food is comfort food. It’s abounding and easy. It’s right.
“Especially this time of year, if you’re removing prepared to go to a Super Bowl or you’re going tailgating, man, we wish somebody to bust out matzo round soup,” Fieri said.
Gold was removing endangered with being usually median by a culinary agenda. “How are we going to eat anywhere else today? I’m going to puke!” So we compromised. Instead of going into Defonte’s of Brooklyn — a Midtown outpost of a scarcely 100-year-old Italian sandwich emporium in Brooklyn — we pulled adult outward and got takeout to eat in a car. We ate it as we headed to a fourth stop.
Four large subs and a raise of much-needed napkins came by a window — a Nicky special (ham, salami, boiled eggplant, provolone cheese, and cooking mushrooms, among other things); a prohibited fry beef (roast beef, uninformed mozzarella, boiled eggplant and jus); a Sinatra special (steak pizzaiola and uninformed mozzarella); and a firehouse special (roast pork, boiled eggplant, broccoli raab and provolone cheese).
“Oh my God, you’ve got to try this,’” Gold said, shoving a hunk of a firehouse special during Fieri.
“You’re like a Jewish drug dealer! ‘I’ve got a sandwich! Try it! Eat it,’” he said.
Yes, we were removing sick. Yet, slopping and dropping food all over ourselves, we upheld hunks of a massive, crazy good favourite sandwiches behind and onward by a car. These are sandwiches that need no translation. You sequence adult a dozen or so of these, cut them and line them up, and we have an implausible Super Bowl feed. If a food is this good, there is no contrition in takeout for a Super Bowl party.
By a time we reached Gold’s grant to a bulletin — Fred’s, a grill with a sports bar feel and walls intoxicated with photos of customers’ dogs — a automobile reeked of grinders. The usually thing reduction appealing than removing out to eat another dish was staying in and smelling it longer. “Do we have any place we can lay down?” Gold asked a hostess.
Our list fast filled with food and wine. A abounding Buffalo duck macaroni and cheese that had we not already consumed 3 dinners we wouldn’t be means to stop eating. A Super Bowl salad (that’s a genuine name) of beets, goat cheese, oranges, walnuts and pineapple. A bacon and fungus cheeseburger. “I’m sweating,” Fieri complained as he kept eating. “I’ve got a shakes.”
And afterwards we were done. We kind of stared during any other. Our goal accomplished, we were all meditative a same thing. Gold put difference to it.
“If we chuck up, I’m texting you.”
The subsequent day, during 2:07 p.m. my phone beeped.
“Puked all night. So ill today. Not kidding,” Gold’s content read. “I’m going to KILL we a subsequent time we see you!!”
I’d contend we’re prepared for some football.
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If You Go:
— Guy’s American Kitchen and Bar, 220 West 44th Street, New York, N.Y., 10036. (646) 532-4897. http://guysamerican.com/
— Ben’s of Manhattan, 209 West 38th Street, New York, N.Y., 10018. (212) 398-2367. http://www.bensdeli.net/
— Defonte’s of Brookl, 261 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10010. (212) 614-1500. http://www.defontesofbrooklyn.com/
— Fred’s, 476 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, N.Y., 10024. (212) 579-3076. http://fredsnyc.com/
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AP Food Editor J.M. Hirsch tweets as @JM_Hirsch
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