Who needs a break from restaurant week? Not I !
But I took one anyways. Weren’t expecting that were you? Well, I Chose to dine at Zoe’s in the Lower East Side with a deal from Gilt. The deal required that the chef choose the menu and a tasting party it was. I started off with the sake and wished I ordered wine, it was going to be a long night.
The chef started with the kale and radicchio salad, with anchovies and a poached egg to start. I normally don’t indulge in poached eggs but I refused to pass up on a fried one and I’m glad I didn’t. This had to have been one of the best salads I’ve had from the fried egg alone.
In the next two minutes, we had lamb. This was served two ways: braised on the bone and fried served over onion soup.
I was hoping this wasn’t the whole meal when they brought out this Mediterranean Dorad fish. Aside from the bones in this baby, it was great. Evenly fried, crisp in all the right place and the raisins on the top provided a good sweet contrast to the succulent fish I was having.
Lemon posset for dessert which was extremely tart; I honestly wasn’t expecting the strong tart flavors at all.
Towards the end, the chef, Zoe, came out to introduce herself and see how everything was. She’s super cute and pleasant. Not to mention she was on Bravo’s Chef Academy so it was really cool meeting her.
Update: This location is now closed.
