New York Times critic Pete Wells files a two-star review of Narcissa, the hotly anticipated restaurant from NYC chef John Fraser and André Balazs at the Standard East Village hotel. Wells especially likes the vegetables dishes which "have a swaggering originality that the meat and seafood rarely match" and ponders "food porn": "Whether teenage boys will hide pictures of undressed kohlrabi under their mattresses remains to be seen." [NYT][Photo: Daniel Krieger]
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