100 Things To Eat Before You Die

We haven’t settled on the exact list of 100 things you should eat before you die quite yet—but we’re accepting pitches and you can find out more about that below. But one of them could end up being the steak Molly ate at an Argentinian newcomer in the West Village, which she described as tasting “like butter sculpted into ribeye form.” One thing I am confident will not make the list is a martini I recently drank that made me feel bad for the olive. More on that below too. —Willa Moore

The following scene reports are (lightly edited) daily updates from our team Slack channel #where-we-been.

It’s hard to pick just one highlight from my opening-week meal at this West Village sequel to Argentina’s most famous steakhouse, but here’s one: I ordered a scoop of ice cream, and suddenly every flavor on the menu materialized on my table. (And this wasn’t a one-off miracle—Sonal watched the exact same thing happen to another table on a different night.) I was Christmas morning-level giddy, and did my best to demolish every scoop despite already being completely stuffed from the Argentinian ojo de bife. They were all great, but if you have more dairy-related self-control than I do and only try one scoop, make it the dulce de leche or the almendrado. —Molly Fitzpatrick

I’m not sure I’ll ever figure out why there’s a painting of Joe Burrow at Yesterday’s, a clubby tavern that opened earlier this year in Greenwich Village. It’s next to a painting of Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie in the Wolf Of Wall Street, and looks over a room full of newly graduated folks in Fear of God Essentials eating mini Chicago dogs with slightly stale buns, drinking sugary espresso martinis, and having a great time doing it. —Will Hartman

It’s called the Clean Dirty, and has an olive encased in an olive juice ice cube floating inside. In theory, your drink starts dry and grows dirty as the ice cube melts. Sounds intriguing, tastes just fine. The olive, which is uncomfortably mushy after being banished to the freezer, is a low point. —WM

For me, the most wonderful time of the year is right now. BLT season. Willa and I are on the hunt for the city’s best, and I recently tried the PLT (with pancetta) at Salvo’s, on crusty ciabatta. It’s missing some of the smoky flavor of traditional streaky bacon, but it is dripping with tomato juice and lemon aioli. –WH

If you’re not a total BLT purist, there’s the Summer BLT at Edith’s (pictured above), which adds corn into the mix (lots of kernels in the mayo). I do consider myself a BLT purist, and was proved semi-wrong after this one. In general, Edith’s knows how to make a summer sandwich. They’re also doing a lobster club, with Maine lobster flown in fresh daily. Get it before it’s gone. —WM

I’ve loved Burmese Bites back since they ran a busy cart weekday afternoons in Court Square Park, which mostly served jurors and construction crews. Though I’ve made it out to visit them at the Queens Night Market and at their former outposts in the Queens Center Mall food court and a now-defunct Midtown East food hall, I’ve been dying to see what they’d do with a proper brick-and-mortar. As of this week, they’ve finally got one—Burmese Bites is now soft open in Astoria. Huge. –MF

Hungry Spicy, the follow-up from Carroll Gardens’ Hungry Thirsty (run by ex-Ugly Baby folks), opens this week in Chelsea. Manhattanites seeking painfully delicious Thai food are in luck. —WH

This is Allie Conti, national editor at Infatuation, and I want to hear from you about the best thing you’ve ever eaten (in America, at least.) This is for a new project that will catalog the country’s category-defining dishes worth planning your life around, and while I’ll gladly accept pitches from any city or town or middle of nowhere roadside shack, I’m especially interested in dishes outside of our major markets (New York, LA, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles) where we have full-time staff.

Feel free to submit something well off the beaten path, whether that means your hometown, or a place you traveled to three years ago and are still dreaming about. You can read some examples and more about the criteria here. Rates start at $200 per accepted caption, and you can submit your pitch using this form anytime before Tuesday, August 4.

No press releases, please. Thanks for your help! —Allie Conti

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