I Spy: Beet Carpaccio mit Smoked Ricotta @ Back Forty, East Village, NYC

...more precisely, Roasted Red Beets with House-Smoked Ricotta, Blood Orange Supremes, Shaved Fennel and Sunchoke Chips.

<crunch, crunch>
SSFL: Sunchoke chips taste like taro chips.
EF: My mom loves those! 
SSFL: I do, too!  I pick 'em out of the bag of mixed Terra Chips.
EF: (crying laughing) It's the first thing my mom does.

I'm a late-blooming beet-eater, but this salad/app provided sorely-needed sunshine to the eyeballs and winter-weary taste buds; sweet, fork-tender ruby roots with spikes of citrus, anise, crispy-salty-earth kicks from the chips and wisps of smoke from that creamy ricotta.

Beets, beets! DotDEEdootdeeDOO, sheeboom-sheeboomboom.

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Back Forty
190 Ave B
(Btwn E 12th & 11th)
East Village
NYC, NY 10009
Ph: 212.388.1990

Comments

[Chocolate Bear]

Now the question...or cocktails with such a plate?

[Chocolate Bear]

Hmm that probably should have read..."Now the question wine or cocktails with such a plate?"

[EF]

either, B40 fares well at both! Im a sucker for the Losaida Sling (cachaca, ginger beer chipotle).