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Daniel Berlin
Courtesy of guest chef Daniel Berlin, there was a special tasting menu this week at Aquavit to extol the flavors and ingredients of the Swedish region of Skåne. The style was contemporary, the flavors paradoxically earthy and clean, the textures complex and interactive, the plates photogenic in the extreme. A parcel of codfish, buried in…
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Vandaag
Dutch and Scandinavian are perhaps the two most underrepresented European cuisines in NYC restaurants, and also two of my favorites. So needless to say I have been a few times to Vandaag, a cleanly designed “Northern European” restaurant that has recently arrived in the East Village. The dishes are minimalist but somehow satisfying, equal parts…