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240 9th Ave. New York, NY 10001

212-242-4730

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Rebecca Marx's Top 10: No. 1
Award Winner 2010

Cuisine(s): Basque, Spanish, Tapas

Hours: Sun 5pm-11pm, Tue-Thu 12pm-11pm, Fri 12pm-12am, Sat 5pm-12am

Price: $$$
Payment Types: MasterCard, Visa

Serving: Dinner, Lunch

Alcohol: Beer, Wine
Reservations: Not Accepted

Parking: No Parking

Description

There are many shareable pleasures to be found on the extensive menu of Basque tapas. There are three main categories: Basque canapés (pintxos), cold items (hotzak), and hot items (beroak). In the canapé family, we loved txitxiki, a fat-cigar-sized sandwich of crusty bread stuffed with homemade chorizo hash. And you can't do better than the arraultza - crostini topped with sofrito, shards of chorizo, and a quivering, sunny-side-up quail egg. Of the hot items, go for bakailoa: a house-cured salt cod sliced very thin, topped with dice-sized nuggets of breaded, fried headcheese that crunches and then gushes pork fat and gelatin under your teeth. Order a bunch of tapas to share, but avoid the expensive nightly specials unless you're rolling in dough.

2010 | Rebecca Marx's Top 10: No. 1

At first glance, the bakalao al pil pil at Txikito is just an unassuming hunk of Basque salt cod, with about the same dimensions and pearlescent hue of a bar of soap. But the simplicity of its presentation makes it that much easier to focus on what's really important here, which is the way the fish's buttery flesh (poached in olive oil) yields effortlessly to the fork's slightest provocation and then slides down the throat, leaving the taste of olive oil and the sea in its wake. Salt cod has... More »
2009 | Best Headcheese

Headcheese, that glorious loaf of Jell-O-like, fatty, and lush pork yielded from a long-boiled pig's head, has been used to good effect all around the city this past year, whether in a high-end, quivering incarnation at Bar Boulud, or as a rich swath of pig tucked into a banh mi in Sunset Park's Chinatown. The most satisfying headcheese this year can be found at Txikito, in the Basque dish called "bakailoa": house-cured salt cod sliced very thin, topped with diced nuggets of breaded and... More »

Best of NYC: Our Critics List Their 10 Favorite Dishes

By Robert Sietsema, Sarah DiGregorio, and Rebecca Marx | Wed, October 20, 2010

Robert Sietsema's Top 10 1. This doesn't mean I'm forsaking my first love, Katz's pastrami, but the smoked-meat sandwich at Mile End is denser, redder, and offered in a sandwich that's just the right size for one person to eat, which means I don'... More »
Alex Raij of Txikito and El Quinto Pino Talks Tapas, Cookbooks, and the Possibility of Further Expansion

By Chantal Martineau | Thu, June 3, 2010

Alexandra Raij opened a tiny tapas bar called Tia Pol back in 2004 with partners Mani Dawes and Heather Belz. In 2007, the team, joined by Raij's husband, Eder Montero, debuted the even smaller El Qui... More »
A First Look at Txikito's Newly Expanded Interior

By Rebecca Marx | Fri, April 16, 2010

Alex Raij and Eder Montero's tiny, lively Txikito just got a little bigger: last night, the chefs lifted the curtains on their restaurant's newly expanded interior. Raij and Montero spent the last ... More »
Alexandra Raij's Tapas Spot Txikito

By Sarah DiGregorio | Wed, December 24, 2008

"The mussel special is really, really good," a wide-eyed older woman at the next table uttered with the gravity of someone talking about global warming, not mollusks. On another night, a couple at the adjacent table stared at our crispy-skinned jo... More »

Dinner Menu

Cold Items

$9.00

Rusa
classic russian salad; potato, imported tuna, homemade mayo

$8.00

Mejillon
marinated mussels, piquillo puree

$11.00

Eskarola
frisee, garlic infused olive oil, sea salt, parsely

$14.00

Cogollos
butter lettuce, basque anchovy, bonito del norte

$15.00

Pulpo
octopus carpaccio; lemon oil, marjoram, piment d'espelette

$11.00

Esparragos
navarran white asparagus, celery-black truffle vinaigrette, chopped egg

Hot Items

$5.00

Kroketas
crispy creamy croquettes

$7.00

Patatak Mentaiko
crisp fries w/spicy cod roe mayo

$13.00

Gambas Plantxa
head-on shrimp, olive oil, sea salt

$8.00

Morcilla
crispy blood sausage filled bundles

$9.00

Piperrak
blistered gernika peppers with sea salt

$15.00

Txangurro
crabmeat gratin

$10.00

Pikillos
roasted navarran sweet pepper, ajoarriero

$10.00

Bocata
warm sandwich of un-smoked bacon, melted cheese

$12.00

Albondigas
lamb meatballs in minted broth

$14.00

Pochas
navarran white beans, buchot mussels, white wine, parsley

$18.00

Pil Pil
legendary basque salt cod , poached in olive oil

$16.00

Txipiron "encebollado"
squid ribbons a la plantxa w/ sweet onion and pine nuts

$16.00

Lengua
crispy beef tongue with mustard espanola, cornichons

$11.00

Txilindron
spicy cross-cut pork spare ribs

$15.00

Txarripatak
trotters and tripe w/ beef tendon, chickpea, choricero pepper

$15.00

Morros Prensados
seared veal jowl terrine, sweet onion vinaigrette

$28.00

Cordero
roasted lamb leg, cumin, garlic, anchovy, hot peppers

Basque Canapes

$7.00

Boqueron
marinated white anchovy, eggplant, piquillo

$10.00

Foie Micuit
homemade foie gras terrine

$8.00

Txiki Txanpi
mini mushroom and shrimp grilled cheese

$8.00

Marijuli
sweet pepper, tomato, jamon, basque anchovy

$6.00

Solomo
house cured pork loin, roasted green pepper

$8.00

Arraultza
sofrito, palacios chorizo, quail egg

$6.00

Atuna
little sandwich of basque tuna, piquillo oil, sweet onion

$7.00

Tutera
gratin of artichoke, roncal, jamon

$7.00

Txitxiki
crispy sandwich of homemade chorizo hash

From The Bar

$4.00

Olibak
olive

$3.00

Patatak
potato chips

$2.50

Gilda
cantabric anchovy, olive, guindilla

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240 9th Ave. New York, NY 10001

212-242-4730

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2010 | Rebecca Marx's Top 10: No. 1

2009 | Best Headcheese

By Robert Sietsema, Sarah DiGregorio, and Rebecca Marx | Wed, October 20, 2010

By Chantal Martineau | Thu, June 3, 2010

By Rebecca Marx | Fri, April 16, 2010

By Sarah DiGregorio | Wed, December 24, 2008