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  1. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Wagyu with vincotto, hearts of palm and Sun Gold tomato at Blanca

  2. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Glass shrimp with poppy seeds and celery juice at Blanca

  3. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Geoduck with Tuscan melon and sea lettuce at Blanca

  4. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Veal sweetbread with lime at Blanca

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    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Celtuce with kefir, kumquat and tuna flake at Blanca

  6. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Garganelli with goat ragu at Blanca

  7. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Nduja raviolo at Blanca

  8. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    New potato with buttermilk, sweet potato leaf and watercress at Blanca

  9. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Duck with porcini and currants at Blanca

  10. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Beach rose gelato at Blanca

  11. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Watermelon radish with sour gummy and macadamia nut at Blanca

  12. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Chef Carlo Mirarchi at Blanca

  13. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Sasso chicken at Blanca

  14. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Blanca

  15. Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz
    Photograph: Paul Wagtouicz

    Blanca

Best big-pimpin' Brooklyn: Blanca

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RECOMMENDED: Food & Drink Awards 2013

Kings County, scrappy capital of diamond-in-the-rough restaurants, got a taste of epicurean bling when this chef’s counter seemed to appear out of nowhere. Chef Carlo Mirarchi’s swaggering showcase—the spare, lofty space hidden, like a Bond villain’s lair, in the concrete yard behind Roberta’s—served some of New York’s priciest high-concept cooking to just 12 flush diners a night. The cost of admission—$180 just to walk through the door—had a certain self-selecting effect. But the few food-mad young Bushwick homesteaders who saved up their nickels for the full three-hour meal got real bang for their Benjamins, in 20-odd courses of tweezer-plated perfection (a plump raviolo bursting with molten nduja, wisps of sweet potato set off with buttermilk and watercress tendrils), prepared, in a banker’s dream kitchen, by one of the city’s most naturally talented chefs. Blanca, 261 Moore St at Bogart St, Bushwick, Brooklyn (347-799-2807, blancanyc.com)

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