Chocolate souffle and Great Champagne for New Year's Eve
We have an incredible menu for you on New Year’s Eve. This will also be an a la carte menu just like our Noche Buena which was a huge success at Purple Yam (although some of our regulars missed the prix fixe menus of previous years).
We have VERY fresh oysters that will be delivered to Manhattan on Dec 30 from Walrus and Carpenter Oysters Community-Supported Aquaculture (CSA) grown in the pristine waters of Ninigret Pond, Charlestown, RI that Romy will place on a bed of freshly squeezed pomegranate ice. We will reprise our Lechon Duroc pork belly with crispy skin and melt in your mouth meat and our pork shank osso buco which won many hearts during our Thanksgiving dinner. Other choices: squab, pan seared scallops and Pedmontese Beef in Brunei curry. Cap the night with Champagne (we offer Joel Falmet Brut and Guy Lamandier Brut, NV) along with that chocolate souffle.
But best of all, we look forward to seeing many of our friends from all the years of celebrating the holidays at Cendrillon in SoHo. So many good memories of toasting the bubbly to welcome the new year!
To make a reservation, call (718) 940-8188 or email Amy at acbesa@prodigy.net.
New Year’s Eve Menu, December 31, 2011, 5:30 – 11:00 pm
Happy New Year / Manigong Bagong Taon!
Appetizers
Oyster Kinilaw with pomegranate ice $ 10
(our oysters are from the pristine waters of Walrus & Carpenter Aquaculture, Ninigret Pond, Charlestown, RI)
Cured tuna noritaco, $ 12
(Noritaco is deep fried seaweed painted with sweet rice paste)
Blood sausage (heritage pork) and apple tart, $ 10
Razor clam chowder, $ 11
Main Courses
Lechon Heritage (Duroc) pork belly $28
With grilled calf’s liver sauce
Pan seared scallops with hijiki and leeks with brown rice noodles, $ 25
Pork Osso Buco with apricots, $25
Grilled peppered squab, $26
With sweet potato and taro gratin
Beef Shortrib adobo with burnt coconut cream, $28
Crispy fried grouper with pickled kumquat & ginger, $ 25
Desserts, $ 10
Chocolate soufflé
Pear clafoutis with pear & quince jelly ice cream
Bibingka (rice cake with French feta and Gouda)
Pineapple bread pudding with palm sugar ice cream
Taste the best oysters one can possibly get from the Northeast. Available in NYC only because Walrus and Carpenter Oysters CSA deliver to NYC on certain days only. Hopefully, they can do this more frequently as word spreads of their incredible oysters.
Pork Shank Osso Buco. We served this during Thanksgiving and some of our friends have been dreaming about this ever since.
Grilled Squab which Romy will grill with a light coat of crushed black peppercorns.
Sweet Potato and Taro Gratin. One of my fave side dishes to be served with the grilled peppered squab.
Pan seared scallops which will be served on a bed of brown rice noodles. Photo credit: Neal Oshima
Let’s all raise a toast to welcome 2012 and hope that this really is the start of better times for the country and all our friends wherever they may be.
Happy New Year to all our friends and loved ones! Hope to see all of you soon!
