It’s only right that I share some sushi loving here after the amazing meal I had earlier tonight at Go’s Mart. As you know, restaurant week is officially over, but there are a handful of establishments in the city that are running it year round. Among those, Morimoto currently has what I think is the best lunch deal in the city.

Morimoto’s is currently offering the following for $24.07 (chef choice sushi):

Tofu miso soup
Mizuna salad with shallots and vinaigrette dressing
9 pieces of sushi, including chu-toro and toro
six piece spicy hamachi roll

that 9 piece sushi platter alone would normally cost $50+. If I were in New York right now, I’d be lunching there everyday. wawaweewah!

Click here for a list of other participating restaurants offering specials year round.

Morimoto
88 10th Ave
New York, NY 10011
(212) 989-8883

New Yorker’s rejoice for Ramen Setagaya may just be the best ramen shop in the entire USA. I’ve been to some great ramen shops in Hawaii and all over California but, Ramen Setagaya still gets my vote for best ramen in the nation– or at least until Hakata Ippudo (Kyoto, Japan) opens in the EV. The key to a good bowl of ramen always starts with the broth and man, this broth kicks some serious ass. The deep broth (assari-kei type) is a well-guarded secret mixture of chicken pork seafood and seaweed, and they use imported sea salt from Okinawa. Warning: this is a shio-ramen, which uses salt instead of shoyu so it’s pretty salty. The Cha-Syu (pork) is home made and you can definitely taste it.  I also highly recommend the menma (marinated bamboo shoot), which is marinated in the stock soup broth for over two days. Keep in mind that this is not a typical ramen joint, but a more regionalized ramen type dish from an area outside of Tokyo. Eat up!

Ramen Setagaya
141 1st ave
(212) 529-2740

Cha-syu men. mmmmlicscious

I’ve been informed that there’s a new (yes, another one) burger joint that just opened, which supposedly tastes “similar” to In-n-out in California. They reportedly use the same thin style patties, and also use fresh cut fries. This could be the closest thing to in-n-out that we’ll ever get so it may be worth checking out if you work in or around the area, although with all the lunch time madness that goes on in the city– maybe not. Let us know how it tastes if you do decide to check it out.

Five Guys
W 55th st btwn 5th & 6th.

Everyone has a food moment, a brief few seconds where you realize your idea of food as you knew it (whatever your mom fed you along with the pizza places between school and home) won’t be the same after whatever it was that you shoved into your mouth.

For Anthony Bourdain, the chef turned writer, it was when he tasted vichoyssoise, a french soup— served cold.  That soup could be served and be more correct in cold form than warm changed it all for him.

For me, it was the first time I had a raw oyster.  The textures, the daringness of it (I’ll admit, I tabasco’d the hell out of it).  Even the saltwater left in the oyster added to the flavors.  I was in connecticut, I was in shock, and I couldn’t be farther from Jersey pizzerias.

What was your moment?

This is single-handedly the best breakfast devised by man (or mom.) Just thinking about it gets me all tingly in my lower abdomen. I’d suggest eating this when you have a mother hangover - for the record, I’ll be eating this everyday of the upcoming weekend.

You probably saw this for the first time on V for Vendetta unless you have one of those awesome moms that gave you something other than rice and kimchee for breakfast every pissin day of your childhood life. (as for myself, i was one of the less fortunate ones. I’d think it’s my birthday when i got to eat a fried egg sans kimchee for breakfast.) But I digress.

For a bundle of butter and joy, follow the instructions below.

Ingredients 1 Serving
2 Eggs
2 Slices of Toast (Thick ones from asian bakeries are best)
Stick of butter
Salt + Pepper

Directions
1. Generously butter up the toast (and I mean, GENEROUSLY.)
2. Grab a cup or cookie cutter and cut out a hole in the center.
3. Throw both the hole and the toast on the pan - fill hole with egg.
4. Fry egg until whites become opaque (2min) then flip and fry for another 30 sec. (I like my yolk runny)
Add salt and pepper to taste and dig in. (You should dip the circle into the yolk. pure heaven.)

Enjoy, and good luck burning off them calories. Hit us up on the comments if you have hangover recipes of your own.