Bizarre Foods: NYC: Will Work for Food

NYC: Will Work for Food

Andrew comes back to the Big Apple, the place where he got his start in the restaurant business. Does he have the chops to keep up with busy workers churning out food in the city that never sleeps?

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NYC: Will Work for Food

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Back in the kitchen

Andrew visits the kitchens of a few popular restaurants in NYC.

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Xi'an Famous Foods

Andrew re-enters the busy restaurant scene by working in the kitchen of one of his favorite places. He helps make the homemade noodles during the busy dinner rush.

88 East Broadway #106 (Chinatown) New York, NY 10002

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Marea

Andrew works in one of New York's finest restaurants, where he learns to make the house specialty: pasta with octopus and bone marrow.

240 Central Park South New York, NY 10019

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Minetta Tavern

New York is a beef eater's town so Andrew makes a stop at one of the city's best known restaurants for great steak.

113 MacDougal Street New York, NY10012

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Pat La Frieda Meat Purveyors

Andrew learns how custom hamburger is made and he gets a look inside the room where the steaks are aged.

3701 Tonelle Avenue North Bergen, NJ 07047

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Katz's Deli

Andrew goes to the Lower East Side for his next job, but first he stops for a snack.

205 East Houston Street, New York, NY 10002

Restaurant

Russ and Daughters

Andrew also makes a stop into Russ and Daughters, where Andrew's grandmother would visit. He eats one of the specialties!

179 East Houston Street New York, NY 10002

Restaurant

The Meatball Shop

Andrew dons a wig and mustache to go undercover as a waiter at the Meatball Shop.

84 Stanton Street New York, NY 10002

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Nuts 4 Nuts

Andrew meets up with a street vendor to see what it's like to sell roasted nuts. He learns to make the nuts.

Corner of 46th and 5th Avenue, New York, NY

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