The Hungarian fry bread, a precarious tower of smoked salmon, fried dough, and house-made kefir ranch dressing, deftly nods to both southwestern Navajo fry bread and New York City, topped with onion, capers, and dill.
It features a menu of large-format, wood-roasted shareable meat entrees and a pizza variety using dough fermented with house yeast.
I almost always had wine and cookie dough at my house and hosted countless wine and whine nights for the wives.
Recipes for the house dough and 17 rustic pies are the highlights, alongside pastas (bucatini fra diavolo), salads (peas and pea shoots with pecorino and mint) and seafood dishes (seared shrimp with white beans, olives and herbs).
The dough, made in-house, is thin, crispy in all the right places and with a nice spotty char.
"One time some Chinese person brought our product back to China and they wrote about it in their newspaper," she said, adding that the article specifically mentioned the bird's nest, a shredded dough specialty of the house.
(That reminds me: I need to pick up phyllo dough for the open house!) "Over the last 16 years of showing apartments," says Lisa Lippman, a senior vice president/director of Brown Harris Stevens, "I have seen the full range from refrigerators with only beer and Diet Coke (single guys) to meticulous moms with everything in labeled containers".
"The signature, house made dough uses a unique two-day double rise process, so it's both crunchy on the outside and fluffy in the center.
"Before computers, there was just too much room for hanky-panky". In the days of handwritten betting tickets, a coffee stain in the wrong place could blur the numbers enough to cost the house some dough.
"Fewer" is right for comparing numbers – fewer people, fewer houses; less dough results in fewer loaves.
