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The most memorable food fads combine familiar favorites in unorthodox ways, cooking up new unions that run the gamut from weird to wonderful. We've been hot on the trail of these treat trends that inspire people to weather long lines, pay high prices, and even resort to the black market for the chance at a taste. From cronuts to crookies, and umami burgers to Japadogs, these latest food fads are worth traveling for, so pack a fork and hit the road.
Cronut
For now, the cronut reigns supreme in the world of fanciful food fads. All other fads measure themselves against the breakout popularity of this doughnut made with croissant dough. While some insist that this deep-fried croissant has been around for decades, trademark rights go to Dominique Ansel Bakery in New York City, where people endure long waits and pay $5 per cronut (with a limit of two per person). If the wait is too long and you're willing to spend more, score one on Craigslist, where cronuts sell for around $30 each. You can find plenty of similar attempts (all with different names on account of that whole copyright thing) in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Singapore, and other cities around the globe.
Umami Burger
Umami Burger's namesake sandwich brings new life to ground beef with the addition of "Umami Master Sauce" in every patty. Topped with shiitake mushrooms, caramelized onions, roasted tomato, a parmesan crisp, and "umami ketchup," this is definitely not your father's burger (and if it is, congratulations on a delicious childhood). The restaurant chain also serves up a burger topped with house-made truffle cheese, another with four types of green chiles, and one smothered in blue cheese and port-caramelized onions. Umami Burger developed its fanatic audience in Los Angeles before expanding to the San Francisco Bay Area and now New York City. And if one food fad at a time just isn't enough for you, check out this account of the first documented umami-cronut burger. Shudder.
Townie
The Townie: not the crux of an '80s movie about college-town tensions, but something you can eat! In London, mash-up-dessert veteran Bea Vo (inventor of the "duffin," a doughnut-muffin) has taken London by storm with her brownie tart, the Townie. Created at the urging of the Evening Standard newspaper specifically to challenge the supremacy of the cronut, the Townie winningly combines a gooey dark-chocolate brownie with a flaky tart crust. If only all battles were this tasty.
Crookie
Part cookie, part croissant? That's right. You can find the crookie -- made by packing crushed Oreos into croissant dough -- at Toronto's Clafouti Patisserie et Cafe. Its origin story is strikingly similar to that of the Townie: Local magazine challenges pastry chefs to come up with the next cronut, and, voila, a sweet, addicting Frankenpastry is born. Yelp reviewers call the crookie "heavenly" and say, "It was kind of like eating a chocolate croissant but a gajillion times better." And with mentions on Good Morning America and in The Daily Mail, this is one food fad getting plenty of buzz outside of its native Canada.
Frozen S'mores
World domination by cronut was not enough for New York City's Dominique Ansel, so he's come up with another hybrid dessert that already has people lining up for a taste. Building on two summer favorites -- ice cream and s'mores -- the frozen s'more features a vanilla ice cream center wrapped in a chocolate wafer and covered in marshmallow. Served on a smoked willow branch and torched to order, it's got the nostalgia-inducing superpower of Proust's madeleine, conjuring up lost feelings of childhood summer camping trips for anyone hardy enough to brave the bakery's long line.
Ramen Burgers
Ramen burgers -- ramen noodles grilled to bun-like perfection and then filled with typical accompaniments like fish cake and pork -- have long been street foods in parts of Japan. But it took the vision of Japanese-American ramen aficionado Keizo Shimamoto to pair the crispy-noodle-bun concept with a beef patty, a soy-based sauce, and plenty of scallions, and elevate it to food-fad fave. Currently only available in limited quantities at the Saturday Smorgasburg market in Brooklyn, Shimamoto recently told TODAY.com that he'd like to eventually open restaurants on both the West and East coasts.
Japadog
Japadog first emerged as a food fad during the Vancouver Olympics, when the food cart won over athletes, spectators and celebrities willing to wait in long lines for its Japanese-style franks. Since then, Japadog has maintained cult status by growing slowly and maintaining its commitment to quality dogs and bold Asian-inspired flavor combinations. Think Kobe beef, grated daikon radish, bonito flakes, and ume (plum) sauce. And with veggie sausage and a deep-fried bun filled with ice cream on the menu, Japadog is playing to all tastes. With three food carts, a trailer, and a shopfront in Vancouver, its heart is still squarely in the Canadian city. But last year, Japadog opened a location in hot-dog-capital New York City.
Bantam Bagels
The idea for Bantams -- mini bagel balls that are filled instead of topped -- came to its originator in a dream. At the West Village shop, find lox, tomato, and red-onion cream cheese inside an everything bagel ball and bacon-cheddar cream cheese with maple syrup inside a cheddar-and-egg bagel ball. Or treat yourself to the Cookies & Milk Bantam, a brown-sugar-and-walnut bagel ball filled with sweet chocolate-chip cream cheese. Even though Bantam Bagels just opened last week, these stuffed rounds have made quite a splash already, with write-ups in national publications and cameos on the Today Show.
Gourmet Popcorn
Popcorn is ready for its time in the spotlight. No longer content to wear simple robes of butter and salt, the snack food has been getting serious upgrades as of late, with accoutrements ranging from dark chocolate to sriracha sauce. Like Cracker Jacks on steroids, dressed-up popcorn is taking the country by storm, and the Specialty Food Association named it one of 2013's top 10 food trends. You can find artisanal popcorn shops around the country, gourmet popcorn bars at weddings, and all-popcorn cookbooks in case you want to invite the fad into your own kitchen.
Halo-Halo
In its native Philippines, halo-halo (pronounced hah-low rather than hay-low) isn't a mere passing fad, it's a classic summer treat. In the U.S., though, the dessert that chef and television personality Anthony Bourdain called "oddly beautiful" is just starting to catch on. Halo-halo, which looks like a Technicolor ice cream sundae, contains some combination of sweet preserved beans, coconut meat, yam, flan, jackfruit, plantain, ice, milk, and ice cream. Find halo-halo at Filipino restaurants and some ice cream and boba-tea shops.
-- By Christine Sarkis
Un carrito (callejero) para vender Hot Dogs Gourmet
Por ejemplo:
Hot Dog Melts
Wolfgang Puck of Spago may be the ultimate L.A. chef, but he grew up in Vienna, and the food there is one of his touchstones. These sausages, called Wiener Würstchen, are a favorite from his childhood. He splits the dogs, fills them with cheese and wraps them in bacon. Once they've been roasted, he serves them on a bun with a spicy horseradish mustard. Although they may seem over the top, they're irresistible.
Crif Dogs • Manhattan
This late-night hot dog spot is locally famous for its franks. This one, which goes by the name The Chihuahua, is wrapped in bacon and topped with sour cream and avocado
Grilled Pickled Hot Dogs with Mustard Relish
Many people add pickled condiments to their hot dogs. Phillip Kirschen-Clark of New York City's Demi Monde, who developed this recipe as a Crif Dogs "guest chef," has other ideas: He pickles the hot dog itself, in an apple cider vinegar. Then he grills it and serves it with sauerkraut and creamy mustard relish.
BLT Hot Dogs with Caraway Remoulade
These "BLT" hot dogs are topped with crispy bacon, fresh tomatoes and crunchy lettuce dressed with a creamy caraway-pickle mayonnaise.
Pastrami-and-Mushroom "Hot Dogs"
In this distinctive high-low recipe, Joe Beef co-chef and co-owner Frédéric Morin wanted to combine girolles (chanterelle mushrooms) with something less highbrow. "As a good chef, you can't mix all expensive things in one dish," he says. So he stuffed the mushrooms inside hot dog buns with Montreal's famous smoked meat
Hot Dogs with Grilled Coleslaw
Snappy, salty hot dogs and grilled coleslaw—a mix of charred cabbage, vinegar, mayonnaise and pickled jalapeños.
Shake-and-Fry Shrimp Rolls
The fried shrimp in these coleslaw-topped rolls get tossed with crushed rice cereal so they're both gluten-free and extra crisp.
Ademas por ejemplo
Se me ocurre hacer uno en vez de salchicha con chistorra.
USar queso azul
Podríamos hacer (tengo el contacto) Salchichas de Pato o de faisan
HAcer un pate de foie gras, etc....
Ponernos afuera de corporativos, volantear... Tener refrescos mas "elegantes" tipo Orangina
Problemas:
Donde guardar carrito, Donde hacer la preparacion, bodega, etc...
Que opinas
Use Lahoz ganó el Premio Primavera de Novela 2013 con El año en que me enamoré de todas.
Fred Sirieix, unflappable general manager of London's Galvin at Windows, reveals the secrets of how to make a fuss without being booted off the premises
A survey showed that 38% of British people would never complain in a restaurant – however bad the food or service. Who can blame us for our reticence? Chefs are sometimes unhinged. Marco Pierre White ejected diners who asked for salt and pepper. His protege Gordon Ramsay created equally priceless PR for dispatching an American customer who had, he said, the temerity to ask for tomato ketchup with a dish of red mullet and summer minestrone.
Waiters seem less threatening, but can be sneaky. In Waiter Rant: Thanks For the Tip – billed as a front-of-house Kitchen Confidential – Steve Dublanica tells of restaurant staff putting laxatives in soup or using a returned burger as an ice-hockey puck before taking it back out and serving it again to the customer.
These are, we hope, extreme and rare reactions, but to guide a path through the minefield, we enlisted the help of the legendary Fred Sirieix, unflappable general manager of London's Galvin at Windows.
OK, you have a legitimate, non-subjective complaint: the dish is not the one you ordered; the food is cold when it shouldn't be. Alert your waiter immediately and, this is important, explain the problem without bluster, exaggeration or threat. There should be no reason to raise your voice at this stage. Mistakes happen; allow the restaurant to correct it.
"There's a difference between a complaint and a comment," says Sirieix. "Somebody can make a comment and say: 'I thought the service was a bit fast.' Or 'I did not get the table I wanted.' People are in business like we are and they feel a responsibility to tell you, because they would want to be told themselves. That I am very happy to know."
Before you kick off in a restaurant, take a moment to check that you are not going to embarrass yourself. Sweetbreads are not what they sound like, and neither is head cheese. Hot-smoked salmon has an all-important hyphen and can often be served cold. "Some people order ceviche and say, 'the scallops are raw,'" notes Sirieix. "And I will say, 'Yes sir, it's the ceviche.' What can I say?"
Do not complain about a dish when you have eaten most of it – say something straightaway. Equally, if you have not enjoyed an aspect of your meal, it is good manners, and karma, to alert someone while you are at the restaurant, rather than venting your fury on Twitter, TripAdvisor or elsewhere.
A salutary tale: last December, a food blogger called James Isherwood didn't particularly enjoy his starter at Mayfair's Hibiscus and wrote an unfavourable criticism of it when he got home. He woke up to a stream of abuse from the chef concerned, Claude Bosi, with fellow two-Michelin-starred cooks Simon Rogan, Tom Kerridge and Sat Bains jumping to Bosi's defence under the hashtag chefsunite. Bosi's justification was that Isherwood was asked about his meal at the time and said nothing.
As the Times restaurant critic Giles Coren wrote in his book, How to Eat Out: "Once you walk out of the door, it's over."
If you feel your complaint has not been taken seriously, or you remain disappointed with your experience, hit them online. Internet reviews – good or bad – are increasingly powerful for all restaurants; no one in the trade ignores them. "I look at everything all the time," admits Sirieix.
Maybe it's the recession, perhaps we are over-excited after years of suffering in silence, but it is still the prerogative of the restaurant to suggest how to make amends for a complaint, not you. You may be pleasantly surprised. Any decent restaurant will know that if they can turn your criticism into a positive experience, they may retain your loyalty for ever.
"A customer has to complain with honesty and integrity and have high values attached to it," says Sirieix. "If you're just saying something to get a free drink or a free meal, we can see what you are trying to do, you are not going to get it. It won't happen."
Tales of restaurant staff tampering with your food once you have sent it back are mostly apocryphal. We live in litigious times and the Food Standards Agency is just a phone call away.