Room Service, our first culinary pursuit in Hell's Kitchen, was a recommendation from Pat's father's friend Bill, and it was spot on. We waited about half an hour for a table and it was loud and the tables were close together, but oh! Those spicy basil noodles! They made my mouth happy with their flavor and their mixture of textures and their perfect spiceness. Perfect! The shrimp were cooked exactly right, and the noodles were soft and full of flavor, and it was all rounded out with some crisp vegetables and fried egg. It could not have been improved upon.
Pat's panang curry with chicken was also delicious, overall highly coconutty and with a drool-worthy drizzle of coconut on top. Pat is freaked out by the phenomenon of green beans in his panang curries in New York and can't decide whether to be heartened or dismayed at the hard-core veggies in his decadent curries. It does give you your daily greens.
I had a mango mojito and Pat had a coconut mojito. I liked them both but he wasn't wild about his.
Our appetizer was perhaps a misstep - mixed fried shrimp, mini-egg-rolls, balls of chicken and tofu sticks. Undistinguished.
Pat is 95% certain that Vanessa Williams, B-list celebrity these days, was sitting three tables down. I don't know what she looks like well enough to verify, but certainly the woman three tables down was very striking. And the place is cool enough, and the food good enough, that celebrities should make it a destination.
The prospect of the spicy basil noodle leftovers thrills me.
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See also the post on our December 2011 trip to a different Room Service location!
http://devournewyork.blogspot.com/2011/12/doughnut-plant-220-west-23rd-st.html
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