Upper West Side: Recipe Roasts Pig in Alley and Neighbors Squeal

UWS restaurant Recipe roasting pig in alley. Photo: Courtesy Judy Starr via Westside Independent.

Pig Roasting on a spit in the alley behind your building?  Sound appealing…or ghastly?  Recipe, the New American restaurant at 452 Amsterdam Avenue off of 82nd Street, held a first anniversary celebration for its staff this week—and roasted a pig out back, a manager at the restaurant confirmed to the Westside Independent.

But residents apparently squealed. The smell and the sight of the piggy turning on the spit offended some.  Read more.

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