Has the world gone meatball crazy? I believe it has. No matter what kind of restaurant I walk into, I find at least one kind of meatball on the menu. And that, my friends, is a good thing. Great meatballs, light and savory and slightly toothsome, are to my way of thinking one of life's great edible pleasures. So I have decided to compile, with the help of the Serious Eats community, a master list of great meatballs around the country and the world for that matter, that we can put all our go-to meatball places on a Google Map. And if you feel like sharing a terrific meatball recipe, by all means post it as a comment here.
Call it Meatball Radar. Or Google Meatballs.
Consider just some of the delicious meatballs I have had recently in NYC:
The duck meatballs with cherry moustarda at A Voce in the Flatiron district in New York. I'm sure chef-owner Andrew Carmellini is sick of making them and talking about them, but they are damned fine.
The tuna meatballs at Esca. Dave Pasternack's tuna meatballs are so meaty you'd swear they were made out of red meat.
Jody Williams' Sicilian-style meatballs at Morandi. These cloud-like beauties are studded with raisins and pine nuts.
And this doesn't even include Mike Psilakis' incredible Greek meatballs at Kefi, the great plate of meatballs and potatoes I had at Pepolini, or Frankie's Spuntino's incomparable meatball sandwich. Someone e-mailed me about the delicious giant meatball served in the Tavern at Gramercy Tavern. What's on your Five Favorite Meatball list?
A Voce
41 Madison Avenue (at 26th St.)
New York, NY 10010
Ph:212-545-8555
Esca
402 W. 43rd Street (at Ninth Avenue)
New York, NY 10036
Ph: 212-564-7272
Morandi
211 Waverly Place (bet. 7th Ave. and Charles)
New York, NY 10014
Ph: 212-564-7272
Where do you get great meatballs? Serious Eaters want to know.
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