Genevieve and I aren’t the most adventures eaters. After all, we ate Ramen Noodles and Lucky Charms for Christmas Eve dinner in Liberia. When we meet up in NYC, we have a habit of defaulting to salad dinners at Cosi (that bread!). But this Tuesday, we decided to break the mold and check out a place I’ve wandered by several times on the UWS, the Hummus Place.
We tried hummus tahini (with egg on top, the true Mediterranean way, our waiter said), falafel, and stuffed grape leaves, and then blindly ordered a dessert called kadaif. It looked something like the image below, except less square and more like a birdsnest-looking heap. It’s basically shredded wheat, topped with vanailla infused ricotta cheese, and caramel-tasting sauce. It was too sweet for Genevieve’s tooth but I finished it off for the both of us.
Check it out next time you’re around Amsterdam and 74th. For $5.50 per person, you can even have a hummus party there, complete with Pita bread and pickles.
Tags: food
June 13, 2008 at 5:16 am
Ahhh that sounds so tasty. I’m hungry!
June 13, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Our dessert looked like it had shredded chicken on top! It was good, but a little sweet.
Can’t wait for our next adventure.