Did you post about this on Reddit yesterday?
ETA: Yup, nice write-ups!
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As someone who got called a banana or (more often) a Twinkie as a kid, I appreciate their vibe! And it sounds like a fun tasty meal.
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Not to derail the thread, but because of your structure or because of how you tasted?
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I became a coconut after I started playing tennis. 
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now THIS looks like food I would enjoy! Thanks Ziggy, maybe we will get ahead of the mob a little.
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Anixi, vegan, kosher Mediterranean fancy-ish place in Chelsea. Very popular on a Saturday night, but there was room for me at the bar, where I had these “lamb” dumplings and a nice chat with the bartender about our respective gymnastics injuries and how we both love boiled peanuts.
Both my drink (Desert Fruit) and my food involved harissa, so it was a spicy night! The dumpling skins were a little tough, but I was very impressed with the vegan yogurt.
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What was the sub for the “lamb?”
Impossible meat.
Huh. I wonder if it’s different from impossible “beef.” If you’ve had both, did you notice a difference in flavor?
No difference. It’s the same stuff I’ve used to make burgers and meatballs. There may have been some “lamb specific” spice added to it, but I don’t know much about such things, since I haven’t eaten actual lamb in decades.
Figured 
Shrimp turnip cake from Win Son Bakery on 2nd Ave. No discernible shrimp. $9. Will not be getting another one, since I don’t think I’m the target audience (I did not care for it).
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@Saregama those look amazing! Looks like pistachios in them, but what else?
I’m going to see if friends in Toronto have seen them there as sweet shops there have a bigger selection than Ottawa.
Dough, ghee, sugar, nuts.
It’s only made in winter, as the cold is necessary for the ghee and sugar to firm up into the coating.
So glad you tried it and reported. I don’t think I would have discovered it otherwise. Everything was delicious but the standouts were the shrimp chips and dip, the etouffe and the banana dessert.
Full report here:
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Excellent. Glad you liked it. Good to see it much busier than when we where there
I really Hawksmoor. I went last week with a bunch of my mates. We had several apps the best of which was the Louisiana fried shrimp and scallops. The Cajun in the group said he’d never seen shrimp like that before so not sure how Louisiana an English steakhouse makes it. But darn tasty. The marrow bones were under done. Then split a giant chateaubriand, a rump steak and a ribeye. The rump which was my selection was the tastiest of the lot. The anchovy hollandaise is something I want to roll everything I eat in. The beef tallow fries were phenomenal. The side of Caesar salad was the sleeper hit. Great meal. Great service too.
Followed that up with a dinner at the relatively new reopened Delmonico’s. Expensive. Glad that was on the corporate account. Overall reaction is a great big shrug. The place was packed. A sign of the K shaped world of dining. Service fine. Nice room. But nothing special here. Even the baked Alaska was no big deal.
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Spent a pretty Penny at Penny, Josh Pinsky’s Seafood sequel after Claud. It’s a little easier to reserve these days but still need to do it two weeks out. Hours after the meal I realized the stuffed calamari, the dish I anticipated the most wasnt on the menu, so need a redo. Veggie dishes like the beets and Puntarelle, the Italian chicory dont get enough credit. We didnt do any of the ice boxes, but the tuna carpaccio, Broken rice (like a cross between couscous and risotto), Halibut, and ice cream sandwich that looked like a 5 year old just made with wonder bread were all spot on. Full report and NSFW seafood porn on the blog.
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Dropped by Wok Wok in the basement at 11 Mott last night for a very early dinner after seeing that they were offering Malaysian Street food dishes, which I am always craving. Nice servers; our choices were Penang Char Kway Teow,
a “Hot Stone” rice bowl with chicken, eggplant and dried fish (and a fried egg on top)
and a dish of chinese broccoli with roast pork
Food was all good - sauces were very tasty and while the veg dish was perhaps a bit light on the broccoli we appreciated the tasty crunchy fatty roast pork cuts, not the usual pedestrian “roast pork”; very little salt fish was discernible and only a few pieces of eggplant appeared in the chicken/eggplant rice bowl dish, and the delicious rice was without crunch at the bottom (beginning of dinner service perhaps); however my char kway teow smelled a bit off; when i tasted a shrimp I realized the source of the smell, it also tasted a bit bleachy; while that took the bloom off the dish it was well prepared, tho rather scanty in seafood overall. Since this dish is my usual standard of comparison, it was a bit disappointing, Id like to go back and try some other stuff and give them another chance; maybe it was just that shrimp and what was very obviously careful portion control happening in the kitchen; their dark soy sauces were lovely.
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This place just cruised across my radar a couple of days ago, so thanks for you report. I am not encouraged by the ammonia-shrimp, but still willing to give it a try.
