664148 Mon Nov 02 12:31:36 -0800 2009 7 18 Manhattan 0 5149722 I love uni. The uni panini at El Quinto Pino is nothing less than orgasmic. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/457821. The uni at Soto is perfection. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/398803 The soba uni ikura at Soba Koh is a religious experience http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/535227 only rivaled by the soba uni at 15 East (and previously at Honmura An) http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/614615 However, I have a new love: the ricci (uni) on a perfecly toasted crostini draped with a transluscent blanket of lardo and a sprinkliing of sea salt at Marea. The fatty pork after taste melds perfectly with the oceanic breeze of the urchin. In lieu of a casket, I want to be buried on a six foot long piece of toast with a mattress of uni tucked snugly under a salted see through comforter of lardo. Mon Nov 02 12:31:36 -0800 2009 10173 guttergourmet 1 5149947 yr posts have brought the funny lately. Mon Nov 02 13:22:08 -0800 2009 5149722 14393 sam1 1 5150748 I really have to try Marea soon. Lardo on uni? Bone marrow with octopus? Porcini dusted scallops? I'm so intrigued. Mon Nov 02 17:51:02 -0800 2009 5149722 1093353 fm1963 2 5152825 I went and had the lobster with burrata cheese - heavenly. Then had the bone marrow with octopus pasta. So great and filling! Packed with flavor. I really liked Marea. Tue Nov 03 12:59:38 -0800 2009 5150748 1082291 tastyeating 2 5153801 I also had the fusilli with octopus and bone marrow and tasted several other pastas-buttery rigatoni with cuttlefish and shrimp and garganelli with sausage ragu,also tried some antipasti-grilled octopus, crab salad and stuffed calamari and a crudi tasting-marlin/caviar/mussel vinagrette; scallop/orange/fennel; lobster/olives/plum/tomato; fluke/lemon thyme/olive oil; cuttlefish sliced like tagliatelle and several others that I can't recall. For dessert the gianduja crema and the affogato with zabaglione gelato were insane. Tue Nov 03 18:41:42 -0800 2009 5150748 10173 guttergourmet 1 5153220 ...okay, adding this to the list for my visit at New Years. Had an amazing meal at Alto in May and had been waiting to hear some more about Marea. Tue Nov 03 14:48:26 -0800 2009 5149722 160718 uhockey 1 5153831 I love Marea. Have blogged about it, written a chowhound post about it, love it even with the funky horse smell outside on that street. I love the ricci, but the last couple of times I went I asked them for a wedge of lemon and squeezed some lemon juice in between the lardo and the uni and I think it's even better that way. Tue Nov 03 18:55:23 -0800 2009 5149722 1103597 fooder 1 5155311 What's the price range at Marea? The uni dish sounds heavenly. Wed Nov 04 10:04:36 -0800 2009 5149722 241434 uwsister