SUSAN FENIGER'S STREET - GREAT CONCEPT, BAD EXECUTION

I was really excited to go to Susan Feniger's Street for dinner with a couple of friends. The concept of world street food in a restaurant setting is intriguing after all, and the smell of exotic spices and unexpected ingredients went straight from the online menu into my nose.

But what a disappointment the real thing was. In a nutshell: the seasoning was totally off, the dishes were either bland or overly salty, the jellies and marmalades, served along with some of them, so loaded with sugar that they virtually killed all the other flavors. For instance, I had the Spinach Varnyky, those small Ukranian dumplings served with sour cream and that horrible sugary acidic lemon marmalade. Please! Also, every single dish was overcooked resulting in food that was either super dry, like the Argentine Ricotta Noquis, that I almost choked on then, or BURNED, yikes!

I know, things can go wrong sometimes, but I really felt that the kitchen staff at STREET has a basic lack of understanding how to treat and prepare food properly, and this is simple street food, for heaven's sake!