Posted on 12/24/2023 12:34:26 PM PST by nickcarraway
The city’s most thrilling new restaurant is a narrow, 28-seat spot on Avenue A where kangaroo’s the name of the game.
Foxface Natural opened last spring, and its wild-and-woolly menu has been polarizing. Most critics and diners have loved it, but some have been quite negative, likening dishes to “elaborate jokes.”
In addition to kangaroo tartare, there is sometimes soup of wild snapping turtle and gooseneck barnacles.
But there’s no exoticism for its own sake, as was the case at the ghastly, long-gone New Deal in the West Village, which served lion and giraffe. Foxface Natural serves no endangered species; its shtick is sustainability, explained owner Ori Kushnir, who runs the house with his life partner Sivan Lahat.
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I worked for a packing plant in the early 1980’s that specialized in butchering of utility cattle and bulls for hamburger. They started buying “beef” from Australia to supplement & it turned out to be kangaroo. Thought it was odd that the Aussie’s could butcher, freeze & ship beef cheaper 1/2 way around the world.
Wanted a rematch, apparently.
Some of those big ones look ripped, like they, just, got out of prison, after a 10 yr stint, working out, every day.
Quick! Write a script and get yourself an agent to shop it to the studios!
“From the makers of Sharknado, Cocaine Bear, and Slotherhouse...
“Comes a new form of terror from the Australian Outback...
“ROO”
Is that black thing a kangaroo turd?
They’re ill-tempered deer, essentially. They make good hats, too.
🤣
So your point is to make me dislike you. Ok. Done.
It’s been my experience that people who look down on hunting don’t appreciate wildlife as much as hunters. You don’t see a lot of birdwatchers in the dark and rain of a November morning, watching ducks.
Leave me alone.
I ordered kangaroo in Melbourne some years ago.
I found it very succulent, much like a nicely grilled steak.
My hostess told me it is tourist food. I don’t mind being called a tourist...
Have a Merry Christmas.
Oh and now you think you’re all good and stuff. People like you are such hypocrites. Get lost.
Does it taste like chicken?
What a turn off?
If they could declare a truce between the sides in the trenches of World War I on Christmas, we can too, eh?
Kangaroo and camel are both quite delicious. Roo is a dark red meat with a veal like mildness not gamey at all. It’s best served med-rare. Pan seared with European butter rosemary and garlic it’s second to none in tenderness like a fine beef tenderloin. Camel is also quite good when slow cooked in a giant clay tagine served over rice and with wood fired bread.
There is a burger place in Big D that always has exotic meats on the menu they regularly have kangaroo, alligator, camel, elk,venison,red deer, wild boar, emu and ostrich. Usually two choices at a time. I have had every one of those listed over the years only the wild boar was gamey.
The best snapping turtle soup anywhere is at Commanders Palace in New Orleans for Sunday brunch.
I thought that I had.
The example of your hypocrisy.
I had kangaroo loin for dinner when I was in Sydney a few years ago. I found it gamey and much like moose or elk meat. Interesting to try, but not likely to be on my menu again.
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