ALEX RAIJ
Alex Raij, the brilliant tapas chef who was ousted from her own Tia Pol and El Quinto Pino last year is back, Time Out’s The Feed blog is reporting. “Later this fall, Raij will open Txkito (that’s chee-kee-to), a Basque pintxos bar with her husband Eder Montero (also a Tia Pol vet). The 34-seat restaurant takes its name from the Euskera term for a short pour of wine-here you’ll be mining an all-Basque list along with shareable plates like bacalao pil pil, a cod dish sauced with its own emulsified liquids.” Ew! That doesn’t sound good. But of course we’ll eat it, since Alex Raij is about the best in the business at this kind of thing. The Feed goes on to report that the place will offer surracopte, some kind of cinnamon sangria, and that the place will be 240 Ninth Ave between 24th and 25th Streets.
