A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside Some Sausage

Photo: Michelle Feffer/New York Magazine

The full-English-breakfast trendlet from a while back is one thing, but who could have predicted an all-out Scotch-egg craze? The dish Ricky Gervais describes as “a delicious and nutritious path to cardiac arrest” is everywhere you’d expect (the gastropubby Fat Radish) and also where you would not (Tom Colicchio’s Craftbar). Our favorite, though, is this soft-boiled, five-spiced, duck-sausaged version set upon a smudge of Kaffir-lime aïoli at the new East Village restaurant the Toucan and the Lion. Defibrillator not included (342 E. 6th St., nr. First Ave.; 212-375-8989).

A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside Some Sausage