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The lobby level of Washington Heights’ Radio Hotel located at 2420 Amsterdam Avenue. Jalao NYC is offering a next level prix fixe dinner menu to celebrate Dominican fine dining cuisine they serve up night after night.
Hispanic Heritage Month began on Sunday, September 15th and ends on Tuesday, October 15th to recognize the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. September 15th was chosen as the starting point for the commemoration because it is the anniversary of independence of five Hispanic countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
Chef Noemi Guzman from the popular Santo Domingo restaurant Jalao at Radio Hotel, hosted a dinner that I was invited to for the kick off of Hispanic Heritage Month. Chef Guzman known for winning Master Chef Dominican Republic, invited select guests to taste her carefully curated prix-fixe menu. Briefly came out and spoke with us about creating this month’s menu offerings. We enjoyed authentic Dominican food that also pulls influence from Taino, African, and Spanish flavors. The prix fixe dinner menu offerings consisted of a 3-course meal, appetizer, main dish, and dessert for $60. A diner can choose one of three options for the appetizer and main dish.
Your choice of appetizers for course one was croquettes with braised oxtail and mushrooms with sour orange aioli and micro cilantro, or fried empanada stuffed with Creole cod stew and cilantro or a lumpia (spring roll) stuffed with stewed chicken and topped with pineapple chutney.
Main dish choices for course two were Taquitos (small tacos) with coconut breaded shrimp with Dominican coleslaw and avocado foam, risotto with caramelized ossobuco in wine and yellow lemon gremolata or dumplings stuffed with pork leg dipped in tamarind and guava on creamy purple malanga. Chef Noemi revealed that the hint of sweetness tasted in the risotto came from her adding some pumpkin to the dish; she is creative and innovative. Let us remember she did win Master Chef Dominican Republic one season.
The final course was dessert which consisted of panna cotta sitting in orange syrup and vanilla ice cream.
One of the members of the tasting group was a non-meat-eating vegetarian and Chef Noemi created a separate appetizer and main dish that more than satisfied her palate and bathed her mouth with Dominican infused flavors, too. So, vegetarians come to Jalao NYC, and the menu will make you go hmm when you come as well. Everything I tasted made me say hmm as I was savoring it, and I am sure it will happen for you.
A special cocktail menu with a choice of three offerings will cost an additional $17.
For this one-month prix fixe menu with tax and a twenty percent tip you could easily spend $100 and that’s if you can stop at one specialty drink. They were delicious, too. Jalao NYC knows how to celebrate.
