If you live or work in Manhattan and haven’t yet tried the excellent grilled corn at Cafe Habana, you should! It’s delicious, hot off the flame griller and rolled in some amazing homemade crumbly cheese.
Surabhi and I’ve been there atleast 3 times in the last month, ever since Vivek told us about it … and the food never disappoints! Thats a tall order, satisfying a picky and pure veggie like me.
Irrespective of the time we’ve gone there, the waiting time’s been consistent … anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. Heck, I once even had to wait 10 minutes just for the corn to-go on lazy Sunday morning. And everyone waits.
I conveniently stole the photo from katofi cafe because I was too engrossed munching the corn to take a photo when I was last there.
This corn is especially awesome tasting to Indians as it’s exactly what you would have on a cold winter’s evening from a thelewalla (cart). Except for the cheese. The Indian version has a spicy red or green chutney and is scrubbed with lemon and salt.
Thats it … it’s 8pm here and my mouth is watering after writing this post … I’m actually going to go to Manhattan right now (from Newark, NJ) and have a corn.
23 Oct 2006 at 9:40 pm
Dude, don’t worry about using the cafe habana grilled corn photo. I should have mentioned in my blog that I pilfered it from someone’s flickr account. I didn’t mean to pass it off as my own. (note to self: start putting down photo credits). It was just such a beautiful photo of the grilled corn. I was too lazy to take pictures at Cafe Habana too. How can you when you’re too engrossed in the food?
24 Oct 2006 at 10:27 am
Dude are you sure its vegi? I mean, how could Good, deliscious, vegi food exist outside of daal and rice and roti ?
24 Oct 2006 at 12:18 pm
Actually, great delicious veggie food can exist lots of places. The Mexicans definitely have their times, but their version of veggies is black-beans!