Dinner at Anejo in NYC

Risheen, Tracy, Nicole, Dan and I finally went to Top Chef Angelo's restaurant Anejo in Hell's Kitchen.  Overall the food was pretty good, but small plates that definitely left some of us wanting more, except that we had already paid a lot of money.  Also, the churros were a big disappointment.  Way too doughy and not even crunchy.  Though apparently the chef burned the first batch, which resulted in one of the managers giving us a free round of Avion tequila, which was by far the smoothest and tastiest tequila I tried there.  A pleasant meal but probably won't be back anytime soon.  Angelo should stick to his Asian dishes a la Social Eatz.

Snapper Ceviche with fried tortillas - pineapple, fresno chili avocado, cactus blood orange.  Tasty but I was surprised by the amount of avocado.  I think it overwhelmed the dish and I could barely taste the fish.  Not as good as ME Casa.

Trio of guacamoles - one with pineapple, another with pomengranate, and the front is verde

Fried tortillas instead of chips

Various margs.  Tasty but the best in NYC?  I don't think so....

My tequila flight.  I think it was the "Anejo" one.  Could not distinguish between the three.  Except they all shared the commonality of burning ha.  I appreciated the chocolate almonds, which I originally thought were olives (ick)

Dan's flight.  Again, burn-y.

Short rib tacos - I LOVED this.  The meat was marinated with cocoa.

Dan's fish tacos.  Good but not that memorable.

Shrimp tacos - Nicole got these.  I think she enjoyed but don't know how it tasted.

Tracy's pork tacos.  Looks good but I wonder if they are better than Taqueria's $2.50 carnitas.

Chorizo Tamale - probably second tastiest thing I tried after the short rib tacos.  It looked like a baked potato ha.  It was interesting to have the chorizo mixed in with the corn. 

Churros with chipotle chocolate and dulce de leche dipping sauces.  On paper this sounded DELICIOUS.  But $7.00 for three doughy midget sized churros with some ehh sauces?  LAME.  We were all so excited too.  Made me really miss Spanish churros.  Speaking of which, I need to go to La Churreria in LES for some authentic Madrid style churros.  Costco churros knock these out of the park.  What does that say?

Flan with coconut I think.  Very tasty, and 200x better than the churros.  Somewhat redeeming in the dessert category.