Digging on Duck Right Now

Culinary legend Jaques Pépin once said, “A duck exemplifies how ingredients can be used to their fullest.”  And it seems like every cuisine, from French to Chinese and even Thai, has a signature duck dish.  The French have Duck A L’Orange, the Chinese Peking Duck and the Thai Roasted Duck Salad.   Chefs around the world understand the versatility of this delicious bird, one that takes on many different tastes and textures depending on how you cook it and what ingredients you choose to cook it with.  We’ll eat it every which way, but crispy skin is key.  That is, unless it’s in ice cream. Or an omelet.  (We’re not kidding.)  These days, chefs are going far beyond the typical roast duck and we’re loving it. We thought we’d sample a few new out-of-the-ordinary duck dishes and share a few favorites that get old…

Roberta’s

Neighborhood: Brooklyn | Cuisine: Pizzas | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

In a city that’s known for its pizza, the ​Roberta’s ​guys are doing their best to stand out. From their intense video trailers for their special events to their aggressively informal approach to cooking and food, this place screams Brooklyn and is anything but a stuffy restaurant. They’re known for their creatively named pies and unique ingredient pairings.

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Wong

Neighborhood: West Village | Cuisine: Asian Fusion | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

Ever have duck for dessert? Yeah, we hadn’t either until we discovered Wong and their truly original Roasted Duck Ice Cream. It may seem like an odd combination at first – savory duck meat and creamy ice cream – but it’s actually an ingenious creation meant to evoke the idea of Peking Duck.

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Momofuku Ssäm Bar

Neighborhood: East Village | Cuisine: Asian Fusion | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

David Chang has won over the hearts of many with his epic large format feasts, from the Fried Chicken Dinner at Noodle Bar to the Smoked Lamb Shoulder with Rice at Ma Peche. While we’d happily sit down to get our fill at any of these group meals, when we have a hankering for some duck, we round up a few of our food loving friends and reserve the Rotisserie Duck feast at Ssam Bar.

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Kin Shop

Neighborhood: West Village | Cuisine: Thai | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

Harold Dieterle isn’t afraid of a little (or a lot…) spice at ​Kin Shop​, his modern Thai restaurant in the West Village. He turns up the heat in many of the dishes on the menu, including his Braised Skate and Calamari Curry with Pickled Green Peppercorns and Northern Thai Style Curry Noodle. But one of the hottest dishes on the menu is the Spicy Duck Laab Salad.

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Sripraphai

Neighborhood: Queens | Cuisine: Thai | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

If you’re looking for a good excuse to visit Queens this weekend, SriPraPhai Thai Restaurant is reason enough. Ask any New Yorker where you can get some decent Thai food, and if they know what they’re talking about, they’ll point you here.

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Peking Duck House

Neighborhood: Midtown East | Cuisine: Chinese | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

If you’re an aficionado of Peking Duck, this Chinatown joint is a rite of passage. The gargantuan menu features regional cooking of Shanghai, Szechuan and Peking and there’s plenty worth trying. Their signature dish happens to be a flawless rendition. (Dare we say it’s one of the best in the city?!)

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Bar Corvo

Neighborhood: Brooklyn | Cuisine: Italian | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

Brooklyn is brimming with delectable dining choices, but Crown Heights is still a relatively underserved neighborhood. Luckily, the guys behind Al di Là (one of the restaurants that helped launch Park Slope as the cool place to open a restaurant) have set up shop on an unassuming block in the area. And with the food they’re serving up at Bar Corvo, home-style Italian fare like Calamari with Almonds and Lasagna al Forno, we’re confident they’ll help develop another busy dining mecca in Brooklyn.

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Ayada Thai

Neighborhood: Queens | Cuisine: Thai | Featured in: Duck | 0 comments

The second Thai restaurant (the other is Sripraphai) to make our duck list also happens to be in Woodside, Queens, where there’s a thriving immigrant community.  Like the food at Sripraphai, Ayada Thai’s dishes are as authentic as they are inexpensive.  If you love spice sans the sweetness that often comes with Thai cooking (in America), this will be your happy place.  This quaint eatery, outfitted with photos of the Thai royal family, is like something out of Bangkok.  The menu’s admittedly pork-heavy menu, but there’s also...

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