Receta Ilili's Brussels Sprouts

  Saturday, we went downtown to Ilili which has the distinction of being the top restaurant in New York.  That being Lebanese restaurants aren’t exactly a dime a dozen here.  In fact, in all of New York there are only places serving Lebanese cuisine, while about another ten call themselves Eastern”.  That’s rather a surprise that, at last count, there were 24,000 places to eat in Manhattan alone.  But Ilili (236 Fifth Avenue, NY 10001 (Tel: stands proudly Lebanese. Ilili means “tell me” in Arabic, a phrase which restaurant says is used in many ways: “a whisper between two friends, invitation to share a secret and a proclamation to get the started.”  The latter of the…