Located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Contra is a Michelin rated restaurant that offers up New American cuisine with a unique tasting menu. In this recent episode of the Eat Seekers series from our friends at Thrillist, see what the restaurant serves in New York City's only Michelin-rated vegetarian tasting menu.

When chefs Jeremiah Stone & Fabian von Hauske first opened Contra in 2013, their goal was to create an affordable six-course tasting menu on the Lower East Side of New York. That later morphed into a Michelin-starred restaurant with a vegetarian tasting menu that captures contemporary New York City on a plate.

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You have probably already hear about this week's stunning upset in the New York City's 14th Congressional District where 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez upset a 19-year incumbent in Representative Joe Crowley. Whe is quickly rising to the top of everybody's radar as a sign of things to come, and in this short interview on the Late Show with Steven Colbert, learn more about her.

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