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PRODUCTS - KNIVES
FISH MARKETS - New York, NY
For Italian food.
Chelsea
Italian
Restaurants - New York, NY
BECCO
355 West 46th Street,New York, NY 10036 (view map)
T: 212.397.7597 (make a reservation)
For Italian food.
Midtown West
Italian
ED’S LOBSTER BAR
I go to my buddy Fast Eddy down at Ed’s Lobster Bar. I get the lobster roll and chowder.
Soho
Seafood
Mediterranean Seafood: A Comprehensive Guide with Recipes
Purchase at: Amazon.com
Author: Alan Davidson
LUPA
170 Thompson Street, New York, NY 10012 (view map)
T: 212.982.5089 (make a reservation)
For Italian food.
Greenwich Village
Italian
152 West 49th Street, Lower Level, New York, NY 10019 (view map)
T: 212.764.8549
It’s in Times Square and open late. I like the yakitori there. I love that place, it’s like a gem, you know.
Midtown West
Japanese
283 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10023 (view map)
T: 212.877.4800 (make a reservation)
I eat salami. Actually, I eat whatever Cesare tells me to eat. He usually has some slow cooked pasta with meat in it, or Bucatini all'Amatriciana.
Upper West Side
Italian
SEKI
1143 1st Avenue, New York NY 10065 (view map)
T: 212.371.0238
For sushi, Seki is good. It’s open late at night. After work, that’s when you find you do most of your dining.
Upper East Side
Japanese / Sushi
SUSHI OF GARI
For sushi. I lived right down the street, I’ve been on that block for 22 years. I just let him make whatever he wants, I never order. If you are ordering in a sushi bar, you are eating wrong.
Upper East Side
Japanese / Sushi
PISACANE
940 First Avenue, New York, NY 10022 (view map)
T: 212.752.7560
They’re good fishmongers and do a good job. They know fish.
Midtown East
Fish Market
RESTAURANTS - NEW ORLEANS, LA
930 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 (view map)
T: 504.588.2123 (make a reservation)
Warehouse District
Cajun
GALATOIRE’S
209 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, LA 70112 (view map)
T: 504.525.2021 (make a reservation)
Friday lunch at Galatoire’s, crazy.
French Quarter
Creole
Restaurants - PORTLAND, ME
FORE STREET GRILL
Sam [Heyward] is great. I love that place.
Downtown
New American
West End
Japanese / Sushi
DEXTER-RUSSELL KNIVES
Buy at Amazon.com
One of the reasons they are good is that they maintain an edge really well and they are not overly expensive. They are made for professionals. If you go on a fishing boat, they all use Dexter. If you go to most fish markets around the country, they use Dexters.
Knife
Chef Dave Pasternack
January 31, 2011
WHO
Executive Chef / co-owner of Esca, an Italian restaurant in New York, NY. He also runs the seafood program for Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich’s Eataly.
WHY
Nicknamed “the fish whisperer,” chef Pasternack is an avid fisherman that truly knows his fish.
ESCA - MIDTOWN EAST & EATALY’S FISH PROGRAM - FLATIRON - NEW YORK, NY
COOKBOOKS
The Young Man and the Sea : Recipes and Crispy Fish Tales from Esca (buy it)
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RECOMMENDATIONS
Dave Pasternack’s recommendations on where to eat in New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Maine, and Italy.
Photograph courtesy of Dave Pasternack
FISH MARKETS - LONG ISLAND, NY
SOUTH SHORE FISH MARKET
4257 Austin Boulevard, Island Park, NY 11558 (view map)
T: 516.889.0692
My buddy has a fish market called South Shore Fish, been in business for 30 years. He has a lot of local fish.
Island Park
Seafood Market
HOTEL - LOUISIANA
WOODLAND PLANTATION
21997 Highway 23, West Pointe A La Hache, LA, 70083 (view map)
T: 504.656.9990
It’s the sugar cane plantation, which is the house on the Southern Comfort bottle, a lot of fun.
Louisiana
Hotel
701 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70130 (view map)
T: 504.524.4114 (make a reservation)
Warehouse District
French American Bistro
Restaurants - PIEDMONT, ITALY
GUIDO RISTORANTE
Fucking awesome man. It’s in the same building as Slow Foods. Its delicious. Order whatever they tell you to get.
Bra
Italian
Alan Davidson makes great books. They are well researched and the information is good.
North Atlantic Seafood: A Comprehensive Guide With Recipes
Purchase at: Amazon.com
Author: Alan Davidson
VESELKA
Sometimes I go down to the Ukrainian diner to have some pierogies.
East Village
Ukrainian