Metromix's Alexis L. Loinaz ordered the Fried Chicken Bowl at the charming new West Village restaurant Fedora last night, and it kind of freaked him out. The dish consists of a quarter piece of fried chicken served on a bed of rice with garlic chips, arugula and cucumbers. But what the menu doesn't tell you is that it's plated, in Loinaz's words, "with the claw still attached to the leg joint, hanging off the bowl and waving a cucumber at you." Loinaz did not wave back.
"Frankly this was way over the top, gimmicky and not the most appetizing scenario," says Loinaz, who promptly hacked off the offending appendage. "We’ve heard of nose-to-tail dining, but jeez! At Fedora, it’s friggin’ beak-to-claw." Hey-o! Of course, nobody would blink an eye if this landed on a table at a dim sum joint in Chinatown, but in the West Village not everyone wants to see extraneous parts of the animal that died for their dinners. Oh well, Loinaz's loss is City Harvest's gain!
