Skip to content

Top Navigation

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Recipes & Cooking
  • Drinks
  • Travel
  • Holidays & Events
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Subscribe Subscribe
Pin FB

Explore Food & Wine

Food & Wine Food & Wine
  • Explore

    Explore

    • F&W Cooks

      Food and Wine presents a new network of food pros delivering the most cookable recipes and delicious ideas online. Read More Next
    • Our 22 Best Crock Pot and Slow-Cooker Recipes

      Looking to amp up your beef stew but unsure where to start? A slow cooker can can take your comfort food to the next level. Read More Next
    • 50 Affordable Wines You Can Always Trust

      We’ve assembled a list of 50 of the world’s most reliable, inexpensive wines – bottles that offer amazing quality for their price year in and year out. Read More Next
  • Recipes & Cooking

    Recipes & Cooking

    See All Recipes & Cooking
    • Chicken Recipes
    • Comfort Food Recipes
    • Breakfast & Brunch Recipes
    • Salad Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Vegetable Recipes
    • Pasta & Noodle Recipes
    • Chefs
    • Meat & Poultry Recipes
    • Soup Recipes
    • Appetizer Recipes
    • Side Dishes
    • Fruit Recipes
    • Seafood Recipes
    • Special Diets
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Steal This Trick
  • Drinks

    Drinks

    See All Drinks
    • Wine
    • Cocktails & Spirits
    • Coffee Drinks & Recipes
    • Juices
    • Beer & Brews
    • Champagne & Sparkling Wine
    • Tea Recipes & Ideas
  • Travel

    Travel

    See All Travel
    • Wine Regions
    • Restaurants
  • Holidays & Events

    Holidays & Events

    See All Holidays & Events
    • Valentine's Day
    • Halloween
    • Passover
    • Hanukkah
    • Christmas
    • Gifts
    • Super Bowl
    • Easter
    • Thanksgiving
    • New Year's Eve
    • Holiday Entertaining
  • News
  • F&W Classic
  • Video
  • Kitchen & Home
  • F&W Pro

Profile Menu

Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
Your Profile

Your Profile

  • Join Now
  • Newsletters
  • Manage Your Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Give a Gift Subscription this link opens in a new tab
  • Wine Club
  • Podcast
  • Logout
Login
Sweepstakes

Follow Us

  1. Home Chevron Right
  2. Holidays & Events Chevron Right
  3. Christmas Chevron Right
  4. 6 Dishes You Need to Try That Won't Appear on Any Holiday Menu

6 Dishes You Need to Try That Won't Appear on Any Holiday Menu

By Food & Wine
Updated July 06, 2017
Skip gallery slides
Save FB Tweet
Credit: Courtesy of PureWow
Between Thanksgiving and the December holidays meals can all start looking the same. But maybe you are in need of something new, something different. How about some grasshoppers? Sweetbreads?  PureWow found 6 dishes around NYC that will make you quickly forget about Thanksgiving overload.This piece originally appeared as Happy Meal on PureWow.   
Start Slideshow

1 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Bacon-Wrapped Matzo Balls

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow

Only in Williamsburg would you find the most ironic dish in existence. The new eatery, The Gorbals, (housed within Urban Outfitters’ concept store Space 98) is the East Coast outpost of the popular L.A. spot, which combines Top Chef winner Ilan Hall’s Jewish and Scottish heritages.The Gorbals, 98 N. Sixth St. (between Wythe and Berry sts.); 718-387-0195 or thegorbalsbk.com

1 of 6

Advertisement
Advertisement

2 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Kimchi Fries

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow

Go for the spicy Korean wings; stay for the kimchi-seasoned fries—courtesy of Top Chef contestant and Nobu alum Chaz Brown. (If you need further persuasion, that’s miso aioli on the side.)Seoul Chicken, 71 Clinton St. (between Stanton and Rivington sts.); 646-838-6066 or seoul-chicken.com

2 of 6

3 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

General Tso's Sweetbreads

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow

This new restaurant mixes chef David Waltuck’s renowned fanciness (he is a James Beard winner, after all) with more accessible flavors—such as your long-beloved Chinese delivery order.Élan, 43 E. 20th St. (between Park Ave. and Broadway); 646-682-7105 or elannyc.com

3 of 6

Advertisement

4 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Buffalo Chicken Dumplings in the East Village

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow

We would eat a dumpling made of boots if it were concocted by Mimi Cheng’s. (They’re that good.) Just in time for football-watching-party takeout, the casual East Village spot has put a buffalo-chicken option on the menu.Mimi Cheng’s, 179 Second Ave. (between 11th and 12th sts.); mimichengs.com

4 of 6

5 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Egg Salad Sandwich with Fried Chicken at Egg Shop

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow

Though it’s blatantly obvious what the L.E.S. spot specializes in, it may not be as apparent that buttermilk-fried chicken is involved in the brunch sammies.Egg Shop, 151 Elizabeth St. (at Kenmare St.); 646-666-0810 or eggshopnyc.com

5 of 6

6 of 6

Save FB Tweet
Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Grasshopper Tacos in Queens

Credit: Courtesy of PureWow
For more of the craziest dishes around NYC go to PureWow

You read (and are seeing) that right. The Astoria cantina, Tacuba, is serving up not-at-all-subtle tacos filled with...grasshoppers. These bad boys aren’t for the faint of heart but deserve a place on any culinary daredevil’s bucket list.Tacuba, 35-01 36th St. (at 35th Ave.); 718-786-2727 or tacubanyc.com

6 of 6

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Replay gallery

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook

Up Next

By Food & Wine

Share the Gallery

Pinterest Facebook
Trending Videos
Advertisement
Skip slide summaries

Everything in This Slideshow

Advertisement

View All

1 of 6 Bacon-Wrapped Matzo Balls
2 of 6 Kimchi Fries
3 of 6 General Tso's Sweetbreads
4 of 6 Buffalo Chicken Dumplings in the East Village
5 of 6 Egg Salad Sandwich with Fried Chicken at Egg Shop
6 of 6 Grasshopper Tacos in Queens

Share options

Pinterest Mail Email iphone Send Text Message Print

Login

Food & Wine

Magazines & More

Learn More

  • Subscribe this link opens in a new tab
  • Books from Food & Wine
  • Contact Us
  • Media Kit
  • Content Licensing

Connect

Follow Us
Subscribe to Our Newsletter
Other Meredith Sites

Other Meredith Sites

  • 4 Your Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Allrecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • All People Quilt this link opens in a new tab
  • Better Homes & Gardens this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Insights this link opens in a new tab
  • Bizrate Surveys this link opens in a new tab
  • Cooking Light this link opens in a new tab
  • Daily Paws this link opens in a new tab
  • EatingWell this link opens in a new tab
  • Eat This, Not That this link opens in a new tab
  • Entertainment Weekly this link opens in a new tab
  • Health this link opens in a new tab
  • Hello Giggles this link opens in a new tab
  • Instyle this link opens in a new tab
  • Martha Stewart this link opens in a new tab
  • Midwest Living this link opens in a new tab
  • More this link opens in a new tab
  • MyRecipes this link opens in a new tab
  • MyWedding this link opens in a new tab
  • My Food and Family this link opens in a new tab
  • MyLife this link opens in a new tab
  • Parenting this link opens in a new tab
  • Parents this link opens in a new tab
  • People this link opens in a new tab
  • People en Español this link opens in a new tab
  • Rachael Ray Magazine this link opens in a new tab
  • Real Simple this link opens in a new tab
  • Ser Padres this link opens in a new tab
  • Shape this link opens in a new tab
  • Siempre Mujer this link opens in a new tab
  • Southern Living this link opens in a new tab
  • SwearBy this link opens in a new tab
  • Travel & Leisure this link opens in a new tab
Food & Wine is part of the Meredith Corporation Allrecipes Food Group. © Copyright 2021 Meredith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policythis link opens in a new tab Terms of Servicethis link opens in a new tab Ad Choicesthis link opens in a new tab California Do Not Sellthis link opens a modal window Web Accessibilitythis link opens in a new tab
© Copyright . All rights reserved. Printed from https://www.foodandwine.com

View image

6 Dishes You Need to Try That Won't Appear on Any Holiday Menu
this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.