Terrific Takeout: The Marshal by Charlie Marshall Fall 2016 Our Coverage Sponsored by Fresh Origins
The sublime Braised Boneless Short Ribs of The Marshal
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With each season, The Marshal capitalizes (capitalises if you are reading across the pond) on the best flavors and it is one of our most favorite places in Hell's Kitchen/Times Square. Charlie Marshall has a pronounced passion for culinary pursuits that outshines his competition and was most recently featured in the Inaugural Review for Dianne and Elisabeth, The Marshal's sister restaurant:
We are sincerely honored to have been the first to review Dianne and Elisabeth and it is equally wonderful.
Most recently, The Marshall was featured this spring:
and it has consistently earned high reviews since opening in 2013:
We visited on the cusp of the end of summer/beginning of fall, and began with the superbly flavorful and uniquely creative Watermelon Gazpacho. Anyone can do plain gazpacho but only Charlie can make it flip on its head and do watermelon so fabulously! With tremendous zip and flavor, this dish is composed of Phillips Farm watermelon, Satur Farms cucumber, jalapeno, cilantro and onion. Garnished with a dollop of Ronny Brook Farms creme fraiche, this soup was amazing.
We love great salads as an essential component of the meal (not the meal itself) and Charlie's Three Kale Salad remains a winner and one of our favorites. Crunchy and fresh, it is simply one of the best salads you can have in Manhattan and drumroll please, Peachy Deegan even likes the salad dressing! Phillips Farms Curly Green, Tuscan and Redbor Kale, garlic aioli dressing, toasted hazelnuts, and microgreens also reflect a pink and green Lilly Pulitzer look that only adds to our fascination.
The side dishes at The Marshall are a triumph of the menu and are highly competitive not only in flavor and composition but also in presentation.
Even the seven dwarfs would love the Bulich Farms Roasted Snow White Mushrooms, embellished with butter, herbs, garlic, and finger lakes white wine. The delicate, fabulously petite succulent little beauties are simply smashing.
Adding nutrition and color are the Sauteed Phillips Farm beet greens, flavored with garlic and butter yielding a lovely balance.
We love love love love love potatoes done well and you will be blown away by Roasted Berried Treasures farm white and purple Ozette potatoes joined by a favorite vegetable: thick cut Bacon. We hope you laughed! Creme Fraiche rounds out this party of deliciousness!
Anyone can have Parmesean but only Charlie Marshall makes FARMESAN! Everyone is rated on points for creativity and humor as well you should know by now. Personality counts a lot in these reviews and the Phillips Farm Sweet White and Yellow Corn on the Cob is just terrific in herb butter and Farmesean, which you know means Parmesean if you have at least one funny bone in your body.
One of the aspects we dislike the most about restaurants is when someone answers the phone and shows they don't care or are not listening. This never happens at The Marshal of course, however, when it does happen sometimes people think it's Peachy Vegan calling. Maybe she should change her name to Peachy Carnivore. In this review, we chose two carnivorous endeavors to brag about: first, please meet the Wood Oven Roasted Pork Chop (with apologies to Miss Piggy.) The wood oven roasted bone-in Greenane Farms Pork Chop is enhanced by a phenomenal apple cider glaze,
YELLOW PEACH BALSAMIC!!!, jalapeno and cilantro salsa that culminates in a flavor that will wow you. Every bite was amazingly juicy, and just as fantastic if not better was the Braised Boneless Short Ribs:
Don't hate it because it's beautiful: EAT IT!
The short ribs are in three words: to die for.
Local Finger Lakes Red Wine Braised Short Ribs are a triumph of succulence and are further illuminated in a flavor way by local herbs and vegetables, rhubarb polenta and pickled red onion. They are not fatty and are purely wonderful.
Berry Shortcake is a winner for dessert and the Three Monks sponge cake, rhubarb syrup, fresh picked market berries and balsamic-infused whipped cream are going to sing a naturally sweet song on your palate.
The Marshal continues to be Highly Recommended by Whom You Know.
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