Purple Yam

Rising rents may have pushed acclaimed Filipino spot Cendrillon out of its Soho digs, but Soho's loss is now Ditmas Park's gain: Co-owners Romy Dorotan and Amy Besa have opened Purple Yam on Cortelyou Road, giving the nabe a rich selection of Filipino and pan-Asian bites. Several Cendrillon faves are back including chicken adobo (slow-cooked in a soy-sauce-based sauce) and kare-kare (oxtail stew in peanut sauce), and the restaurant's namesake ingredient finds its way into new dishes like Korean pork meatballs with kimchi served in a purple yam pita. If you're feeling daredevil-y, check out a dish called dinuguan: pig's-blood stew made with Berkshire pork and served with rice cake. It was a special at Cendrillon and is now a regular item on the menu here—something Dorotan thinks fits in with today's offal-friendly, nose-to-tail tastes. "People are just open to all kinds of different things now," he says. "It's not so much of an adventure." Purple Yam opens on Nov. 10

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