All the restaurants were wonderful.

Ursula, a James Beard finalist in 2020, serves New Mexican inspired cuisine. We went for brunch and enjoyed their breakfast burritos with housemade chorizo (or bacon), scrambled eggs, hash browns and cheddar stuffed inside a flour tortilla. Wow! To agree with Eater, NY, (they) “delivered a payload of multiflavored, multitextured pleasure.”

Do ask for the green chile sauce “on the side.”

Ras Plant Based, according to the New Yorker Magazine, is an “Ethiopian tradition for the vegan-curious… (an) homage to ancestral Ethiopian recipes reimagined through a contemporary lens.”

There are two Ras Plant Based restaurants – one on Pier 57 in NYC and the other in Crown Heights. Dishes run from $5 to $19.

The menu is quite extensive. Some of the items are: Flaky sambusas (the Ethiopian equivalent to what’s called a samosa in South Asia and elsewhere), which are stuffed with either lentils or chopped cabbage, onion, and bell pepper.

Injera, which comes with the vegan sampler platter, is a porous, slightly sticky national flatbread of Ethiopia, made from a deliciously sour fermented teff-flour dough and is torn into pieces and combined with tomato, onion, and jalapeño, all doused in a puckery lime vinaigrette.

I had one of their “bowls.” All bowls have a brown turmeric rice base, a drizzle of homemade hot sauce, and injera crumble and cilantro topping.

BOLÉ BOWL

Ras kitfo – soy protein crumble, onion, jalapeño, spice infused oil, Alicha shiro – slow simmered chick pea; holy basil, Gomen – steamed collards, Yatakilt – cabbage, carrot, bell pepper, and Avocado salad – served with tomato, onion, jalapeño.

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I had their Traditional Plato Breakfast and loved it – soft scrambled eggs with bits of tomato and onion, black beans sprinkled with queso, sweet plantains, and a side of tortilla and crema. Their menu is quite extensive and includes sandwiches, vegan and children’s options.