What Are the "Hottest" Restaurants in NYC?
December 14, 2006 5:36 PM Subscribe
The NYC Chiliheads Meetup Group (http://hotnspicy.meetup.com/42/) wants to consider possible venues for its future gatherings. We're a group of individuals, drawn from a variety of backgrounds and industries, that simply LOVES fiery, spicy food. Recent outings have taken us to Cho Dang Gol and Brick Lane Curry House. Like-minded AskMeFites are welcome to join us!
What restaurants do you recommend? Why? What cuisine do they represent?
I loved the Manhattan Chili Company at its old location, but I haven't been to it's new location. In fact, the wording on the website doesn't make it completely clear whether the new location is open yet or not, but there's a phone number.
Why I recommend it: It has a zillion kinds of chilis, including at least one vegetarian option, and they use natural meat and it's good. And for desert they have teeny tiny sundaes that come in shot glasses. Apparently at the new location they have a "chili bar" which sounds fun. And it's totally cheap.
It's not that firey, I mean I didn't cry when I ate it or anything. But it is as spicy as you'd expect chili to be.
posted by textilephile at 6:26 PM on December 14, 2006
Why I recommend it: It has a zillion kinds of chilis, including at least one vegetarian option, and they use natural meat and it's good. And for desert they have teeny tiny sundaes that come in shot glasses. Apparently at the new location they have a "chili bar" which sounds fun. And it's totally cheap.
It's not that firey, I mean I didn't cry when I ate it or anything. But it is as spicy as you'd expect chili to be.
posted by textilephile at 6:26 PM on December 14, 2006
My boyfriend (and Frank Bruni) gave Spicy and Tasty (in Flushing) a rave review for Sichuan food. I've enjoyed Pam Real Thai, especially the oxtail soup - make sure and tell them that you can handle the heat.
posted by twoporedomain at 7:33 PM on December 14, 2006
posted by twoporedomain at 7:33 PM on December 14, 2006
Try Los Dos Molinos, it's New Mexico cuisine. The one here in Phoenix is pretty spicy even for the loads of southwestern food we have here.
posted by scottymacten at 8:14 PM on December 14, 2006
posted by scottymacten at 8:14 PM on December 14, 2006
Both are a bit out of the way, but I would eagerly recommend either Staten Island's New Asha restaurant (Sri Lankan) or Rego Park's Registan (Kosher Uzbeki). Registan and New Asha each do amazing things with the hot pepper and the hot, mustard oil-seasoned vegetables at New Asha are a work of art.
posted by huskerdont at 8:15 PM on December 14, 2006
posted by huskerdont at 8:15 PM on December 14, 2006
The New York Post did an article on exactly this. The Post writer went on a spicy mission with Blair of Blair's Death Sauces and Nick of hotsauceblog.com. It doesn't seem to be available at the Post website. The abstract includes one sentence summaries of the three restaurants they visit. Curry Lane Brick House wins for their Phaal. ("I haven't been lit up like that in a while," says Lazar.) In fact, Wikipedia's entry for phaal makes note of it's notoriety for heat and of the Curry Lane Brick House rendition. The New York Press agrees . (Its apocrypha, according to Pat Chapman, British author of the New Curry Bible and expert on all things spicy, is that phaal was a means of revenge against the “lager louts”— sloshed Brits who arrived at their restaurants past the pub’s closing time and spewed out all manner of rude insults.)
posted by stuart_s at 11:11 PM on December 14, 2006
posted by stuart_s at 11:11 PM on December 14, 2006
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posted by The corpse in the library at 6:00 PM on December 14, 2006