Sunday, July 30, 2006
Empananda Mama
Last night I dined with Fernando and Sunil at Empanada Mama over on 9th avenue near 51st street. Empanada Mama (not to be confused with Mama's Empanadas), is a colorful boutique restaurant that specializes in all types of empanadas including the normal beef, pork and chicken as well as some gourmet non-fried baked. I got a mix of empanada style - fried Caribbean, baked Argentine, chicken, beef. The empanadas are served in individual paper bags and stamped with the contents, served in a basket along with a green and red hot sauce. The empanadas were scrumptious- the crust was baked to a golden brown and the meat and vegetables inside were juicy and tender. The sauces made it even more delicious. We washed this exquisite feast down with a pitcher of white wine Sangria, and later hung out for an hour or two in the Colombus Circle park - in the middle of that famous traffic circle - to enjoy the (relatively) cool evening air.
Ninth Avenue is turning out to be a treasure trove of unusual eateries....
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