New African Restaurant Merkato 55 in NYC
By oyiza • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Africa55 Gansevoort St., New York, NY 10014
nr. Greenwich St. See Map
212-255-8555
At Merkato 55, the Ethiopia-born, Sweden-raised chef Marcus Samuelsson wants to do for the cuisines of Africa what he did for Scandinavia at Aquavit: reinterpret them for the modern Manhattanite. It’s not Samuelsson’s first foray beyond meatballs and gravlax: He installed a sushi bar at […]
