2019 Restaurant Wish List

A little space to notate the new restaurants I hope to visit this year and a few that I feel deserve a second look.

New to me in 2019? Hopefully:

1. Adda - seems everyone's raving/gushing about the lamb and food's fieriness.
2. Bamonte - One of my favorite 2018 experiences was taking the kids to Queen. Such honest food and such a welcoming environment. I'm hoping/expecting the same here.
3. Berber Street Food - both read reviews reminded me that I'm ignorant about so much of northwestern Africa. Beyond bistella and djoloff rice, there's a lot more for me to learn.
4. Casa Enrique - More new-to-me Mexican dishes please. 
5. Frenchette - Does anyone not like this place? And the wine list is only natural?
6. Le Coq Rico - A $140 baeckoffe? Sign me up!
7. Loring Place - I'm a sucker for a grandma pie and two decades ago I worked for the chef here.
8. Lowerline - I get too little of the gumbo, jambalaya, red beans dishes. 
9. M. Wells Steakhouse - So many years, every year I'm going to go and well, I don't go! I need a 9pm flight from LGA to incent me to eat here at 6:30!
10. Mu Ramen - my ramen intake has waned as I make more and more ramen at home. 
11. Okonomi - Also so many years of saying I'll go and not going. They even serve weekday breakfast!
12. Randazzo's - see #2
13. Tama - Filipino food gets too little of a place in our home rotation. I need to experience more to make sure
14. Zyara - Sandwiches of all sorts can be great but something vegan and Arabic? Sign me up!

Places to visit again

1. Chez Ma Tante - we had a lovely meal here in the summer of 2018 that included two wines I wish I recalled; because they were delicious.
2. Faun - a random 2019 partial family outing led us here where we experienced really delayed service and incomprehensibly good pork
3. J.G. Melon - it's been 20 years!
4. LIC Market - after two 2018 visits, this may be my favorite new restaurant in New York. I've even started replicating their dishes at home.
5. Ugly Baby - the food was delicious on a record-cold December 2017 night when I went with a self-purported foodie who then turned a nose up at offal and non-primal cuts. The cold and company made concentrating on the food difficult.