I just got back from a trip to New York and on my pilgrimage to Lombardi’s for coal-fired pizza I stopped at Rice to Riches on Spring Street - about a block down from the 6-train subway stop at Spring St. It was rediculously delicious. It was so delicious it almost made me angry. I ended up going back twice. I am a fiend for rice pudding but its hard to find.
Has anyone else stopped by this place? I don’t recall seeing it on any previous trip to NY. Has it been there long? What do locals think of it? It looked like a chain to me but the girl at the counter said it was the only one.
When I read that story, I said to myself “I KNEW that nobody could run a profitable rice pudding store!” Since they’re apparently still open, two years later, maybe I was wrong…
I read the review from the blog link mentioned by Cheesesteak. It looks like someone spent a fortune on the restaurant design, and the custom bowls and spoons.
Yeah, I’ve been a few times, and it’s a lot of fun but very very expensive. The pudding is fantastic, though, and the toppings are great. The spoons and dishes I wash out and keep and use in my much less glamourous home for snacks and stuff.
It’s a cool setting–unless you’re decked out in full Soho gear you feel like a slob just walking by the place.
Heh heh, racketeering! Oh well, if I avoided every place that was a front for something I could never have another slice of pizza in my life.
I think there’s even a restaurant in NYC devoted to peanut butter sandwiches, which is odd, because I never want to order food in a restaurant that I could easily make at home.
Went there on a lark (after Lombardi’s too!). Yum but $$. That was a few years ago, and the store was also seen in the movie “Hitch” (with Will Smith) – they either walk into it or right by it.
There’s also a place that sells nothing but mac and cheese. It’s supposed to be really good mac and cheese, but I haven’t tried it.
Recently, a place opened up near where I work called brgr. All they serve is burgers, and they’re really expensive, even for Manhattan. So I thought I’d better see what the fuss is about and ordered one. It wasn’t bad – I mean, it’s difficult to really screw up a burger – but it sure as hell wasn’t anything special. It was pretty bland and far too small for what I paid for the damn thing.
Hmm, that’s only a few blocks from where I work. I might just check it out for lunch sometime. I looked at the flavors on their website and they sound so good!
I had the tiramisu, the graham cracker, and the raspberry (the store gives all the flavors cutesy names I can’t remember); they were all very good. I think the graham cracker, which I got with a coconut granola topping, was my favorite.
The bowls and spoons were cool - I kept one set from the last order I got to go. When I got home my wife was angry with me for not keeping the other sets, she thinks they are sooo cute.
I don’t remeber it being anymore expensive than a premium ice cream shop. Though I may not have noticed since I always expect to pay twice as much for everything in NY than in Texas.
I’ve seen the place but never went inside. It does have a very high end design. I felt I was underdress for the place.
Isn’t there a restaurant that just does cereal?
