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Among the world’s great sandwiches without a serious New York City presence, the roti john, like the one chef Amy Pryke serves at Native Noodles in Washington Heights, surely ranks near the top.
As one of the apocryphal origin stories of the dish goes, an Englishman in the late 1960s asked a Malay hawker in Singapore for a hamburger. The hawker didn’t have any burgers, so instead he fried together a concoction of minced mutton, eggs, and onions and pressed it into a baguette. And thus the roti john was supposedly born, a sandwich that Singaporeans often consume for breakfast. “John,” it should be noted, is a Southeast Asian slang term for a white man, as Pryke explains in John Wang’s cookbook anthology,
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Superstar chef José Andrés reveals upcoming restaurants at Ritz-Carlton
Whether it’s a disaster site or communities hit hard by the pandemic, José Andrés regularly crisscrosses the globe with his nonprofit World Central Kitchen to help out. But come this fall, the celebrated chef will be spending more time in NYC with the opening of Zaytinya and Bazaar by José Andrés at the Ritz-Carlton New York in Nomad, located at 1185 Broadway, at West 28th Street.
Andrés’s ThinkFoodGroup will be in charge of the food-and-beverage offerings at the luxury hotel, which is still under construction and located across the temporarily-shuttered Nomad Hotel. Zaytinya a Washington, DC favorite since 2002 serving Turkish, Greek, and Lebanese fare is set to open first this fall. The Bazaar will debut a few months later and is typically more extravagant with dishes like caviar-topped tacos and a tortilla de papatas “new way” served with potato espuma.