So, one of my favorite health newsletters did a piece on a new restaurant in the home of one of my former favorite New York Restaurants. The restaurant is called Fat Hippo and it is situated in the east village at 71 Clinton Street, where 71 Clinton Fresh Food used to live. That restaurant has long gone out of business. Wylie Dufresne opened another place down the street WD-50 where I dragged my family for my 30th birthday – but they all hated it (I liked it – but some of the food was too out there even for me). I’ve not spent much time in the east village as of late, so I can’t say much about the new WD place, nor do I know if its still open, but when I saw the review for Fat Hippo I needed to make some comments.
Here is their website: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/02/a_first_look_at_the_fat_hippo.html
I just took a brief look at their website and although the burger fondue and pan fried cheese balls made me revolt, I was surprised to see a few healthy options as well like free range turkey meatloaf and a grapefruit salad. Hooray for restaurants even as decadent as Fat Hippo taking a step in the right direction.
I’ll miss 71 clinton as it reminds me of a different time when the east village had so much more unchartered exotic territory. Now it is any other yuppified cappuchino bar on every block losing some of its heyday character. There’s still a bit of anarchy left in the east village – but not enough to keep vox populis, my favorite anacharist cafe on the bowery, open. Vox had to close its doors in February and move to Brooklyn. This happened around the same time as I closed my cafe.
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