Nibbles: Café Lou Lou, Slice of NY

Award-winning chili at Café Lou Lou

Chef Marsha and the trophy! Photo by Robin Garr

Café Lou Lou Pastry Chef Marsha Lynch and Sous Chef Mark Johnson whipped up a batch of chili for the eighth annual Phoenix Hill Chili Cookoff recently, and it impressed the judges so much that they gave it the grand prize.

Lynch (who also pens the monthly Industry Standard article within this column) said she can’t reveal everything that’s in it, but gave credit for its bodacious numminess to such goodies as house-made hot sausage from Frank’s Meats, plus dark red kidney beans and black beans, habanero chile powder, chipotles en adobo, roasted corn kernels, masa harina and more. But no spaghetti. Absolutely not. Lynch considers that local custom a perversion.

The chili went on the menu at Café Lou Lou last Thursday and will remain as a special while supplies last.

Café Lou Lou
106 Sears Ave.
893-7776
www.cafeloulou.com

Let’s go to Slice of NY. Oops!

In one of the worst instances of bad timing in my food-writing career, last week I published a fairly positive review of the NYC-style pizza at Slice of NY in Plainview. Within 24 hours, a sign on the door (and a message on the answering machine) declared the place “closed until further notice for family reasons.” Management couldn’t be reached directly to clarify, but it doesn’t sound promising.

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