ABC Kitchen
Ask many a New Yorker their favorite restaurant, and you'll begin to fully realize the city's love affair with ABC Kitchen, and their spicy sister, ABC Cocina. Its interiors a seamlessly chic continuation of the attached mecca and end all be all of décor shops, ABC Carpet & Home, the menu and aesthetic converge in a love letter to all things fresh, organic and local. Grab your best pack of pals, and pack yourselves full with the must must order of Crab Toast with lemon aioli, pre-portioned for pecking hands to grab, the Pretzel Dusted Calamari with mustard aioli, the Scrambled Eggs, Crispy Oysters and Hot Sauce Butter, and, because one toast for the table simply isn't enough, the Ramp and Goat Cheese Toast. A lovelier scene couldn't be set.
ABC Kitchen, 35 East 18th Street
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