NY Times loves our trotters: “The pig’s foot at Northern Spy Food Company may be the friendliest in town.”

“The pig’s foot at Northern Spy Food Company may be the friendliest in town.

The meat has been stripped off the bone, rolled around a sauté of mustard greens — a sly riff on that Southern classic, collard greens and ham hocks — then breaded and fried. What arrives at the table has the innocent mien of a crab cake, plump and golden.

Slice into it and the pork spills out, outrageously tender. There is nothing to tip off the squeamish that we’ve entered hoof territory.

Edible Manhattan says “One of Our New Favorite East Village Places”

Take a Bite: The Famous New York Northern Spy Apple, at Left, is also the Name of One of Our New Favorite East Village Places

The Northern Spy apple, a variety first planted in New York state in the early 1800s, was known for bearing big, colorful, juicy fruit that were legendary keepers, so they ended up in a lot of pies and sauce and other wintertime dishes. Not surprisingly, the cozy, 900-square-foot East Village restaurant (511 E. 12th St.) that bares this persistent fruit’s name was, on a recent chilly day, awash in farm-fresh cockles-warming treats being served to a bustling lunch time crowd.

Find. Eat. Drink: “They not only respect your dollar, but they also respect the product.”

“900 square feet doesn’t make for a very big restaurant, especially a place that also functions as a boutique gourmet market. But somehow Northern Spy Food Co. pulls it off, creating an atmosphere that walks the line of homey and hip.

TimeOutNY says “perfect restaurant for the broke locavore”

“Part of the problem with eating well—healthfully, deliciously and environmentally correctly—is that it’s expensive. Enter Northern Spy Food Co., a restaurant that serves locally sourced meals at reasonable prices (no dish costs more than $15).