Farewell Lunch Tour Day 4: Stew Peas at the Dutchy
So as painful as it is to say, this is my last week of full time Midtown Lunching. Don’t worry… the site isn’t going anywhere, but I’m moving to L.A. so this week I’m making sure to hit all the places I’ll miss the most. A “Farewell Lunch Tour” if you will. Here’s where I’ll be today…
It’s no secret that I’ve always been down with the Jamaican Dutchy cart (on 51st and 7th Ave.) Since the very first day they opened, almost 3 years ago, I’ve been a fan of their jerk chicken, sweet and sour chicken, oxtails, and curried goat- despite the long waits. But it wasn’t until a lunch back in October that my feelings for the Dutchy went from schoolboy crush, to complete and total adulation. It was the first day I tried their stew peas.
I had heard a lot of good things about the Thursday stew peas special at the Dutchy, but what I never realized was that it’s not your average stew. It’s a pig’s tail stew! (How did I not know this before? So many wasted years sans stew peas…) Now I love me some pig’s tails (in fact I had some for dinner last night) and the Jamaican Dutchy’s version is surprisingly tender, and tasty and delicious. And it’s from a cart. And it’s under $10. What more could you possible want?
Clearly I can’t leave for L.A. without one more plate of the Dutchy’s stew peas. So screw the weather, today at Noon I’ll be on 51st and 7th… see you in line!
Related:
Jamaican Dutchy’s Stew Peas Is One of the Best Things I’ve Ever Eaten From A Cart
The Jamaican Dutchy… a Midtown Cart on Island Time
Posted by Zach Brooks at 11:45 am, January 28th, 2010 under Farewell Lunch Tour, Review.
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can you bite into the pig tail & take a picture of the middle please… im so curious….
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@monstermooch — afraid to bite into your own tail?
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chewing on it is one thing. chomping off half of it is another.
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Is it extra for the slugs?
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Ewww kinda true Bossman.
I think this dish is like many other brown food (tripe, brown gravy dishes) There is just no way to take an appetizing picture of it. You have to suspend disbelief and put it in your mouth. -
mm pigeon and slugs
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Mama, that’s exactly what the present Mrs Rudy said last night in bed.
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I’m gonna stake out Hing Won tomorrow. Just a hunch…
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I should go back to Dutchy for more of their jerk chicken.
Sigh, one more work-day farewell lunch for Zach left. Friday’s edition has to be a mountain of cart foods?>
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walgreen’s
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prediction: last place will be the site of the very first review
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No Margon? Is dominican/cuban/puerto rican food that prevalent in LA? never been
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Monstermooch, it’s like a chicken neck but with much more fat and a little more meat. Also, I think they’re either pickled or brined or something because the meat is very pink like ham or pastrami. You have to chew around it like a chicken neck or a chicken wing.
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I went yesterday and had it. The meat was pretty spectacular (lots of bones and fat to pick through) and I’ve never seen a bigger “small” size in my life. Perhaps they gave me a large and charged me for a small because that was a huge portion.
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Good call stevenp.
Zach – goodbye, and good luck on the wrong side of the country. Whether you agree or not, midtown lunch will not be the same without you. I’ve been reading this blog since about 2 months after you started (the first blog I kept my eye on) and while the other contributors try, what make this site what it is is your point of view.
Pass the dutchy on the left hand side.