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How do you like your eggs? Scrambled, sunny-side up or topped with caviar? We at Citysearch take our eggs very seriously, so we scoured the city looking for the most inventive and tasty takes on this humble, oft overlooked ingredient. Get ready for a serious protein fix, because the things these five New York restaurants do with the incredible, edible egg are light-years beyond the omelet. (Photo: Egg caviar at Jean Georges)
On this page:Egg Caviar, Deconstructed Eggs Benedict, Slow-Poached Egg, Uovo In Raviolo, Pizza Al’Uovo.
Egg Caviar
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Jean Georges
Read Reviews1 Central Park W, New York, NY 10023 (map)
It’s hard to put into words just how luxuriously creamy and decadent celeb chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s egg caviar is. You’ll just have to spoon out the custardy creation, which is served in an open egg shell and topped with whipped cream and caviar, and find out for yourself.
Deconstructed Eggs Benedict
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wd-50
Read Reviews50 Clinton St, New York, NY 10002 (map)
Eggs Benedict sounds like a simple enough dish, but in the hands of gastronomic mad scientist Wylie Dufresne, it takes on a whole new life. His deconstructed version sees perfectly sculpted columns of egg yolk paired with cubes of English muffin crumb-encrusted fried hollandaise sauce and ultra-thin slivers of crispy bacon.
Slow-Poached Egg
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SHO Shaun Hergatt
Read Reviews40 Broad St, New York, NY 10004 (map)
The one dish that admirers of chef Shaun Hergatt can’t help but mention is the exquisitely assembled slow-poached egg. The native Australian poaches an egg in saltwater, decorates it with gold leaf, tops it with caviar and surrounds it in a cauliflower puree for what just might be New York’s flashiest egg dish.
Uovo In Raviolo
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SD26
Read Reviews19 E 26th St, New York, NY 10010 (map)
Owner Tony May didn’t ditch everything when he moved his Central Park restaurant San Domenico downtown and rechristened it SD26. One classic he brought along for the trip was the Uovo in Raviolo, an oversized raviolo stuffed with a poached egg and white-truffle butter, whose rich excess tastes just as good in the new hip Madison Square Park digs as it did uptown.
Pizza Al’Uovo
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Motorino
Read Reviews319 Graham Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 (map)
During brunch, fans of chef Mathieu Palombino’s celebrated Neapolitan pies are treated to something special: Motorino’s Pizza Al’Uovo. This wood-fired creation tops a firm and chewy crust with mozzarella, pancetta, basil and three fried eggs. The whole olive oil-drizzled mess, with its oozing eggs and savory pancetta (basically Italian bacon that isn’t smoked), is a terrific, and fatty, way to start your day.
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