EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: Summer gnocchi at Pub & Kitchen

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EAT THIS IMMEDIATELY: Summer gnocchi at Pub & Kitchen

POSTED: Wednesday, July 28, 2010, 10:38 PM

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The gnocchi at Pub & Kitchen (1946 Lombard St.) has always been good chef Jonathan Adams and crew do it like the French do, whipping up pate a choux (we've been talking about choux dough lots lately, no?) and piping it into hot water to form delicate little buggers in the parisienne style. Their latest ode-to-summer rendition, though, is so sun-kissed it requires your attention. Adams starts with a blue crab jus he reduces, then folds into whipped butter kicked up with togarashi; this rich, spicy base then meets the gnocchi, plus halved cherry tomatoes, crisp, sweet snap peas and delicate chunks of peekytoe crab that are difficult to distinguish from your dumplings past dusk. Take one bite and you're outside. Take another and you're wearing flip-flops. Take a third and you're concocting an excuse to wriggle out of work the next day so you can skip down to the shore and feel the breeze curl around your ears. They do this in their slumber, summer. Eat this immediately!

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