Dining Out, Dinner, Lunch, Manhattan, Upper East Side, Vegan, Vegetarian, YorkvilleKerry Alaric CheeseboroSeptember 25, 2016Hummus KitchenHummus Kitchen, Upper East Side, Yorkville, hummus, chickpea, grilled, vegetables, roasted, cauliflower, tahini, thyme, red onion, Mediterranean, parsley, paprika, olive oilComment

Grub Med

Upper East Side, NYC — Always attempting to try so many new restaurants — and with so many new restaurants always opening — I do find it hard to get back to restaurants I may have liked in the past. Even within blocks of my apartment.

Hummus Kitchen is one such place, a restaurant with a few locations featuring Mediterranean-centric cuisine, and as a friend had to come all the way to the Upper East Side just so I could afford a few minutes to meet with her, it is nice to know that, years since my last visit to this food a few years ago, the menu and dishes still impress.

I helped my friend get through a generous helping of savory, exotically aromatic hummus with grilled carrots, beets, and eggplants and spiked slightly with paprika and made homey by a pleasant olive oil. And her roasted cauliflower with tahini and red onion made for hearty, healthy, tasty satisfaction for a side dish.

I can't promise I will make it back there on a more frequent or consistent basis, but it's nice to know that as long as Hummus Kitchen exists — directly across the street from me at that — it bodes well that a good meal is still to be had.