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| | Porchetta | | | “this little nook is the brainchild of I Coppi's Sara Jenkins, who's trading her usual upscale fare for a more direct take on Italian cuisine. That means spic...” —UrbanDaddy | | Cuisine: Italian |
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| | | | | | The East Village is abundant with Italian restaurants but thin on Italian speciality shops where you can find great sandwiches and well prepared sides. Porchetta, which opened this week on 7th Street between 1st Ave. & Avenue A, provides just that but in a very streamlined manner; the only me... Read More | | | | | | From Serious Eats: New York Porchetta 110 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10000 (b/n 1st and A; map); 212-777-2151; porchettanyc.com Service: Friendly counter people take your order. That's the extent of the service here Setting: A tiny storefront with counter seating for four C... Read More | | | | | | Nothing in Italy has brought me more unhappiness than porchetta, which is boneless, rolled-up, seasoned pig. Sounds good and looks better, but to the list of characteristics I add the following: overcooked, not fresh, clumsily prepared. I’m the dumb tourist who walks through an outdoor market, gazes... Read More | | | | | | From Serious Eats: New York I've only had the porchetta from Porchetta that Ed Levine has brought in to the SE home office. It was amazing. Alan Richman's take makes me want to head over there for dinner tonight: There’s not much in my culinary life I trust less than porchetta. (A coro... Read More | | | | | | Porchetta sandwich???notice the slab of crunchy skin on the left Porchetta, the single-mindedly piggy new Italian sandwich shop, opened today. The roast pork emporium is Sara Jenkins' new venture; most recently, Jenkins was the chef at 50 Carmine, and she is the daughter of food journalist Nancy ... Read More | | | | | | Porchetta sandwich—notice the slab of crunchy skin on the left Porchetta, the single-mindedly piggy new Italian sandwich shop, opened today. The roast pork emporium is Sara Jenkins' new venture; most recently, Jenkins was the chef at 50 Carmine, and she is the daughter of food journalist Nancy... Read More | | | | | | Interior of Porchetta…sort of Probably you’ve read enough food blog posts about Porchetta that your sick about reading it. Well, I’m one of those pesky bloggers who would jump ship to try something relatively new. I’m not saying I’m trying everything new for the sake of being “hip” but more of the... Read More | | | | | | 110 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A 212/777.2151 $9 for a pork sandwich, without tip ♥ For Italians, porchetta means boneless pork roast that’s moist and juicy. Chef and co-owner Sara Jenkins doesn’t stray away from that definition: my $9 pork was no joke. The meat was shiny; its ... Read More | | | | | | It seems like forever ago (more like seven years) that Wylie Dufresne pioneered the Lower East Side restaurant revolution at 71 Clinton Fresh Food. Dufresne left 71 Clinton to open the ground-breaking WD-50. 71 Clinton drifted for a while, until Jason Neroni took over in March 2004. Many were smitte... Read More | | | | | | The shuttered Carniceria. Note the for sale sign leaving a real mark in the center of this image. As of last Thursday, Carniceria the Carroll Gardens restaurant that replaced the Neroni-scarred Porchetta, has closed. As far as year-in-the-life stories go, the tale was grim to gruesome for the o... Read More | | | |
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