Just wanting a nibble before heading to the Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles, featuring Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) Jason Biggs (Orange is the new Black) and Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) at The Music Box theatre, we stopped in at Balkanika in Hell’s kitchen.

Along with our Gavi ($48), we nibbled the giant beans ($7) in a light tomato sauce and avjar, a meze of roasted red peppers, eggplant and olive oil ($7) with a basket of pita. That dry white wine produced in the Piedmont section of northern Italy worked wonderfully with the small meze.

I’d also recommend their warm homemade filo burek ($10) filled with ricotta cheese ($13) and their hearty bowl of lemon chicken soup ($9) overflowing with shredded tender chicken.

And so, I’d recommend catching a bite at Balkanika and heading to Heidi Chronicles.

– bonnie

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Balkanika
Hells Kitchen
691 9th Avenue New York, NY 10036
(Between 47th & 48th St)
(212) 974-0300
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