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Cendrillon FILIPINO/ASIAN Cendrillon features
authentic yet innovative Filipino food in a comfortable setting with
exposed brick, a skylight in the main dining room, and cozy booths
up front. How authentic? Try a shot of lambagong, also known as
“coconut grappa.” It's a potent drink distilled from the coconut
flower sap and blended with sugar-cane sap, and as far as I know,
Cendrillon is the only restaurant in New York to serve it. The drink
will ignite your appetite for the flavors to follow, like the squash soup
with crab dumplings or the fresh lumpia with tamarind and peanut
sauce (Asian vegetables wrapped in a purple-yam-and-rice wrapper).
Cendrillon's chicken adobo (chicken braised in a marinade of vine-
gar, soy, chiles, and garlic) renders the bird tender and tasty as you
could imagine, while Romy's (the chef/owner) spareribs, marinated
in rice wine and garlic, rubbed with spices, and cooked in a Chinese
smokehouse, are as good as any I've had cooked in a Texas smoke-
house. Save room for the exotic desserts like the Buko pie, made with
coconut and topped with vanilla-bean ice cream, or the halo halo, a
parfait stuffed with ice creams and sorbets with flavors like avocado,
jackfruit, and purple yam.
45 Mercer St. (btwn Broome and Grand sts.). & 212/343-9012. www.cendrillon.
com. Main courses $15-$24. AE, DISC, MC, V. Sun 11am-10pm; Tues-Sat
11am-10pm. Subway: N/R to Prince St.; 6 to Spring St.; 1, A, C, E to Canal St.
Finds
Ed's Lobster Bar SEAFOOD You may be a long way in dis-
tance (and price) from a roadside shack in Maine when dining at Ed's,
but take a seat at the white marble counter and sink your teeth into
Ed's signature lobster roll (prepared cold with mayonnaise) and you
might just think that it's the rocky Atlantic coast outside the window
rather than bustling Lafayette Street in the middle of NoHo. After
you've tried the overstuffed lobster roll, if you still have room, try the
oysters, raw or delicately fried. Or the fried Ipswich clams . . . or the
steamers . . . or the chowder . . . really there's not much you won't
want to try. Thankfully unpretentious, Ed's is straight-ahead New
England seafood served in a casual, laid-back dining room and white-
washed bar. They even have paper bibs, homemade pickles, and
Belfast Bay lobster ale on tap. What more, really, could you want in
a seafood “shack” in downtown New York city?
222 Lafayette St. (btwn Spring and Kenmare sts.). & 212/343-3236. www.lobster
barnyc.com. Main courses: $15-$30. (Lobster and oysters at market price). Tues-Fri
noon-3pm; Sat noon-4pm; Sun noon-9pm; Tues-Thurs 5-11pm; Fri-Sat 5pm-mid-
night. Subway: 6 to Spring St.
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