![]() ![]() It’s in the small, bright, briny Atlantic oysters, paired with a glass of ice-cold rose, anywhere you can find them-including at Island Oyster on Governors Island, a fancier place to leave town in the summer without leaving town. It’s in the slightly-gross-but-sooooo-delicious fried clam strips at Johnny’s Reef on City Island-one of those places you go on a beautiful summer day in New York City when you can’t get out of town. The flavor of summer is also in the Original Tomato Pie-nothing more than crushed fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil, Pecorino, garlic, and olive oil-cut into three-bite squares at the original Frank Pepe in New Haven, Connecticut, where I always insist we stop when driving home from Vermont. ![]() The snap peas and asparagus show up around the same time, and so do the watermelon and strawberries and stone fruit. The season has become irrevocably wrapped up in the smell and taste of Jersey-grown basil and fresh corn and Brandywine tomatoes. Later, one of my friends whacked another on the head with his shoe when he drunkenly tried to climb into the wrong tent in the morning we awoke to find that the tent had collapsed on top of him.įor me, summer really comes when the summer foods come. We all thought it was World War III (remember, this wasn’t so long after 9/11), until we finally realized that it was just a Labor Day fireworks display at a nearby high school. ![]() We were passing around a bottle of whiskey afterward when the air above the tree canopy was suddenly filled with thunderous noise and bright lights. Somehow we got a fire going and wolfed down undercooked burgers. After going half a mile or so up the hill we identified a clearing a few hundred yards off the trail and set up camp there. Back in 2003, near the end of my first, a group of friends and I drove out to the Catskills, found a random trailhead, and staggered into the woods in the twilight under the weight of the gear we’d purchased at Kmart. I really loved the look of the restaurant.The summer that just began is, inexplicably, my 21st living in New York City and soaking up the pure joy that this season brings to the Northeast. The 70th roll was very very good! It came with a wasabi honey mustard which took the roll to the next level for me, it also looked beautiful! The strawberry roll was my favorite! It wasn't like any other roll I had tasted! It had spicy crab and avocado the roll had slices of strawberries and it had a mango sauce on top! It was delicious! It may be too sweet for some but I really enjoyed it! We finished our meal with a mango was pretty good, nice presentation again & we also had the fried oreos which was good :) I really liked this restaurant the staff were very nice and attentive. ![]() This restaurant was really beautiful inside! They had very cool light up booths and a light up floors! We started our meal with was ok.could of used more salt.or just rock salt :) Then we had kani salad.the serving was small but it was good! The spicy tuna and avocado salad was good and beautifully presented! We also had the boneless ribs, which were very good! We tried 3 of MOca's signature rolls Dinosaur roll, 70th Roll, and the Strawberry Roll! They served all three rolls on one plate and it looked very beautiful! The Dinosaur roll was good. ![]()
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