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Amazing food is a given around New York, but in Bed-Stuy it's a little less common. Especially dishes like pork and wasabi shumai with young coconut; shishito quatre sel with green tea, wasabi, yuzu, and seaweed; and a doughnut delicately filled foie gras. This kind of madness is the status quo out at Do or Dine Bed-Stuy, which opened late last year. Bradyen and I stepped into their prep kitchen yesterday and later they answered these Top Chef Top Eats Q's.
Names:
George McNeese and Justin Warner
Astro sign:
GM: Scorpio
JW: Aquarius
Hometown:
GM: Pensacola, FL
JW: Hagerstown, MD
Current neighborhood:
GM & JW: Bed-Stuy
Signature dish and cocktail pairing at Do or Dine:
GM: "New Zealand" duck with an Aquavelva
JW: Foie gras doughnut with a Spherical Back
Signature dish at home:
GM: Beef jerky
JW: Salt and vinegar chips fish tacos
Best spot for dumplings:
GM: Our Nippon nachos
JW: Vanessa's
Best spot for a spicy dish:
GM: Tabla
JW: Phō Grand
Best spot for pasta:
GM: Marea
JW: Samurai Mama
Food trend you're over:
GM: Cocktails
JW: Menus
Hangover cure:
GM & JW: A&A Bake and Doubles
Best food market:
GM: Union Square Greenmarket
JW: Sunrise Mart
After a long day, what do you make for yourself:
GM: I have a Coors Light
JW: Shin ramen
Celebrity chef crush:
GM: Emma Hearst
JW: My girlfriend, Brooke
Favorite cooking show:
GW & JW: Good Eats
Last meal request:
GM: Dungeoness crab legs
JW: Something from the manga Toriko
Any horror apprentice stories?
GM: One time a guy labeled some shallots as "garlic-onion baby."
JW: The time an employee tried to make marshmallows using an egg beater from the 50s that was on display in the restaurant.
Check out Mercedes' review of Do or Dine here.
Photos by Brayden Olson
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TABLA- 11 Madison Ave. map
PHŌ GRAND- 227 Grand St. map
MAREA- 240 Central Park South. MAP
SAMURAI MAMA- 205 Grand St. MAP
Amazing food is a given around New York, but in Bed-Stuy it's a little less common. Especially dishes like pork and wasabi shumai with young coconut; shishito quatre sel with green tea, wasabi, yuzu, and seaweed; and a doughnut delicately filled foie gras. This kind of madness is the status quo out at Do or Dine Bed-Stuy, which opened late last year. Bradyen and I stepped into their prep kitchen yesterday and later they answered these Top Chef Top Eats Q's.
Names:
George McNeese and Justin Warner
Astro sign:
GM: Scorpio
JW: Aquarius
Hometown:
GM: Pensacola, FL
JW: Hagerstown, MD
Current neighborhood:
GM & JW: Bed-Stuy
Signature dish and cocktail pairing at Do or Dine:
GM: "New Zealand" duck with an Aquavelva
JW: Foie gras doughnut with a Spherical Back
Signature dish at home:
GM: Beef jerky
JW: Salt and vinegar chips fish tacos
Best spot for dumplings:
GM: Our Nippon nachos
JW: Vanessa's
Best spot for a spicy dish:
GM: Tabla
JW: Phō Grand
Best spot for pasta:
GM: Marea
JW: Samurai Mama
Food trend you're over:
GM: Cocktails
JW: Menus
Hangover cure:
GM & JW: A&A Bake and Doubles
Best food market:
GM: Union Square Greenmarket
JW: Sunrise Mart
After a long day, what do you make for yourself:
GM: I have a Coors Light
JW: Shin ramen
Celebrity chef crush:
GM: Emma Hearst
JW: My girlfriend, Brooke
Favorite cooking show:
GW & JW: Good Eats
Last meal request:
GM: Dungeoness crab legs
JW: Something from the manga Toriko
Any horror apprentice stories?
GM: One time a guy labeled some shallots as "garlic-onion baby."
JW: The time an employee tried to make marshmallows using an egg beater from the 50s that was on display in the restaurant.
Check out Mercedes' review of Do or Dine here.
Photos by Brayden Olson
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TABLA- 11 Madison Ave. map
PHŌ GRAND- 227 Grand St. map
MAREA- 240 Central Park South. MAP
SAMURAI MAMA- 205 Grand St. MAP