Shmoné (NYC) – The Wandering Eater

Shmoné is owned by Eyal Shani who owns the Miznon chain and HaSalon in Midtown. This Israeli restaurant on 8th Street, has a menu that changes daily and typed out in Comic Sans font, with dish names like “370 Pea & their pea shoots (don’t try to count them)”. It reads a bit unusual since it does not fit in to the typical restaurant menu formats I’ve seen in over the two decades of my doing this semi-serious, if you will, restaurant dining and eating locally and internationally. The restaurant layout has a large U-shaped kitchen counter and smaller dining tables that surround the area. The kitchen counter is good people watching on both the kitchen side and your neighbors.

After some thought about what to eat with my dinner guest, we ordered two dishes from each section (Earth, Ocean, and Animal). You may scroll through my photo slideshow below for all of the dishes we’ve eaten. The best dishes of the night were the baby artichoke with egg yolk pasta and the 2.5-pound ribeye steak. The food is on the expensive side since the mentioned perfectly cooked steak, sliced on our section of the counter was $135. The larger protein dishes hover the $40-$50. Most dishes that are smaller than main course sizes average about $20-$35.