cooking up homemade chocolate zabiaglione with the owner of Club A Steakhouse

Restaurant week is such a great time to be in NYC! And this summer, because of some extensions, there was Restaurant Month in the city! So, that is how I find myself in the Club A Steakhouse Restaurant at 9:45 on a hot July night. After a long drive from Boston, we met Aliza (who’s been living in the city for a month and interning for Mayor Bloomberg) and made our way to the restaurant. By the time our onion soup, salads and steaks (what else could you expect we’d order at a steakhouse?) had arrived, we had the restaurant to ourselves. The food was incredible, and we got to talking with the man who runs the restaurant. We told him that we were in the city for the weekend to meet with the editor-in-chief of Kiwi Magazine and immediately he insisted that I make my prize-winning zabaglione then and there. Everyone exchanged a “wait…what?” glance and then we all shrugged and supposed that we would just have to wait and see what he had in store for us. And oh what he had in store for us! Out came only the shiniest of giant copper pans and the freshest of eggs and the most perfect berries and we were in business. One large whisk and a bowl of chocolatey berries later, and I proudly presented my creation to the manager. It’s safe to say he was back for seconds.

wisking the chocolate zabiaglione tableside

Assembling the chocolate berry yumminess!