Growing up, I used to go with my family to the resorts up in the Catskillls. Primarily, it was the Pines & Kutshers. I remember a lot of things about those vacations - I remember my grandfather playing shuffleboard out back while my grandma played bingo by the pool. I remember going to kids camp where we would have scavenger hunts around the hotel. What I don't remember, is anything about the food having any redeeming qualities. That's why when Kutsher's Tribeca, a 'modern Jewish American bistro' opened up a few weeks ago, I was skeptical. Did I really want to go somewhere to pay $10 for a bowl of matzoh ball soup? The words gefilte fish manke me queasy. But my friends from Birthright wanted to go for Restaurant Week, so since I wanted to see them I went and prepared to eat challah bread all night.
Since this is a chocolate blog, I'm not going to go into detail about the meal. Proving to be the stubborn one I am, I was the only one at the table of 5 who opted out of the restaurant week menu and went with a salad and brussel sprouts. Now when the time came for dessert, I spotted two things on the menu which made me realize the reason to come here hadn't been about the rugelach at all. There was a black and white ice cream cookie sandwich, and a rainbow cookie ice cream fudge sundae. Four of the girls ordered the B/W cookie sandwich, and I ordered the rainbow cookie sundae.
The sandwich was such a fun concept. Two black and white cookies surrounded a heap of ice cream, forming a sandwich that was too big to eat in sandwich form. Luckily, the dessert came with a bowl of chocolate to dip it in, so we dissected the cookie, scooped up the ice cream and dunked it int he chocolate. Taste wise, it wasn't anything spectacular, but I definitely give it points for concept. I think it was the vanilla ice cream that killed it for me, because since I'm a chocolate freak, vanilla is too bland for me. The girls all loved it though, although were so full from their steak and potato dinners that they gave me all of their leftover cookies :)
Now for the rainbow cookie ice cream sundae. I am very particular about my rainbow cookies. There are certain bakeries I get them from, my favorite being the bakery in Astoria, Queens that I reviewed last summer. They were my fathers' favorite before he found out he was diabetic, so by the way if anyone knows of a really good sugar-free rainbow cookie, please let me know!
There were pieces of rainbow cookie spread throughout the sundae, which were fun surprises as I picked through the cup to throw away the vanilla ice cream and get down to the fudge at the bottom. I didn't realize it at first, that there were two different types of consistencies to the white part of the sundae. I thought it was whipped cream, which is also a skippable ingredient for me, but Alana and I figured out it was marshmallow fluff! This was such a fun dessert, and made my experience at Kutsher's a happy one. I have to say, I wouldn't eat here specifically for the desserts, but if you are going here for dinner, it definitely is a fun after-dinner treat.
Kutscher's Tribeca
186 Franklin Street
(212) 431-0606
www.kutsherstribeca.com
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