I had dinner with my good friend Angela at Souen. Souen is a great vegan macrobiotic restaurant that has recently moved to East 6th Street. The menu is filled with interesting choices like cauliflower couscous, cauliflower cut and cooked to mimic couscous, edamame guacamole with seitan chips, and my favorite the macrobiotic plate steamed veggies and rice.
The restaurant is in the middle of about 10 Indian restaurants. I think it was some time in the 1980's that East 6 Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues became the place for Indian Food.
the street is nothing special; your typical East Village tenement block. Most of the restaurants are on the ground floor with a couple of them up the stairs on the first floor. Many have music on the weekends. Since the restaurants have moved into the neighborhood an amazing supermarket has also taken up residence
It's a little place, smaller than my apartment, but it carries a lot of stuff!
on and on.
The movie was "Win Win" with Paul Giamatti, Bobby Cannavale, and Amy Ryan. It is written and directed by Thomas McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy besides also acting in over 37 TV shows and movies has written and directed 2 other very fine movies: "The Station Agent" and The "Visitor". He was nominated for an Academy Award for writing the screenplay to the animated film "Up". According to Wikipedia he is also a silent partner in the Papaya Dog chain of fast food restaurants in Manhattan. He's 46 and I hope he keeps them coming, the movies. They didn't have hotdogs at Souen.
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I remember Souen. I went there in the early 1990's when it was on 12th st , I think, near Parsons.
I love the Indian restaurants on 6th st. Miss all of that.
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