"Borscht January 31st “There’s nothing inherently sexy about borscht. It stains, it’s full of cabbage, and it doesn’t beckon you to lean over the bowl and whisper something about your lower half. But eating the Ukranian borscht at Veronika (a high-end Eastern European restaurant in Gramercy that opened in the beginning of the year and has been closed since March) changed that for me. Slurping its porky broth was one of the more sensory-filled dining experiences I’ve had in an otherwise sanitized year. It was poured tableside, which meant I got to admire a steamy flow of beet soup as it swarmed a little mound of shredded cabbage, onions, and dill. I stuck my face as close as possible to the bowl before I ate it, like I was a beet aromatherapy patient. This was sexy soup.” -Hannah Albertine, Staff Writer" - hannah albertine, nikko duren, hillary reinsberg, arden shore, matt tervooren
