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This is a steak-y, onion-y, tartare, not a spicy steak tartare.
It is a raw beef lovers dream. Big chunky prime, full of sweet, mineral-rich goodness.
If someone had told us it is best paired with a medium-bodied, slightly sweet, $20 bottle of Golden Muscat from the Alto Adige (ALL-toe AH-dee-jay), we would’ve told them to get their head examined.
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The question needs to be asked: Which is the better Italian restaurant: Circo or Sirio?
The answer is: It depends.
If it’s top flight Italian cheeses and salumi you’re after, Sirio gets the nod. Lamb chops have you licking your chops? Then you won’t find better ones than Chef Vincenzo Scarmiglia’s Pecorino Romano crusted loin ones at Sirio.
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The trouble with traveling to New York is, you’re usually with people who are under the impression there are things to do there other than eat and drink. – ELV
New York is the greatest restaurant city in the world. – Daniel Boulud
Everyone knows ELV hearts New York City. He’s from Connecticut, lived an hour’s drive from mid-town for five years back in the 80s, and knows the restaurant territory there almost as well as he does Las Vegas’. Amazingly, after at least a hundred trips there, he still gets a tingle whenever he’s awakened from his red-eye slumber to see the sun rising over Manhattan (“Ah, civilization!” are the words and thoughts that immediately spring to his mind.):
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After checking in to the Gansevoort Hotel, smack dab in the middle of the meat-packing district, we considered polishing off our hunger at Pastis (right out our window):
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