My dear friends at Tia Pol
have opened their second project, El Quinto Pino.
El Quinto Pino (the fifth pinetree) is catalan slang for
saying something is out in the boondocks, or so I hear---
not being the most linguistic of people.
It's no secret that I am a huge fan of this group
of restauranteurs and the food that comes out of
the Tia Pol kitchen. Alex Raij, the chef,and I became friends
one day when she asked me about my goat purveyor.
You can guess how that made me swoon.
Her and her husband/sous chef, Eder, were regulars at Lassi
and as soon
as I could tear myself away from the kitchen I gave
Tia a whirl and I've never turned back.
El Quinto Pino is as true a tapas joint as we have here
in NYC. No seats. Standing only. And it's giving Alex a chance to really
show how versitile she is. Over a meal last week at Next Door Nobu, she
told me how excited she was about the upcoming uni panini she was going
to start serving. I hear there is some Andalucian lemonade that is
out of this world.
Rock and Roll.
Photos of Pino to come.
El Quinto Pino
401 west 24th street
btwn 9th and 10th aves.
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