Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I don’t usually think of SoHo as a place for cheap eating. Sure, you can find plenty of cafés in the area that aren’t overly expensive…but a straight up deal? Not so much. I am singing a different tune now that I’ve found Fiat Café. Pretty much nothing on the menu costs more than $8.50.…
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When it comes to the UWS, I’m usually out of my depth. I’m not in the area often enough to know which spots are good and which, more importantly, offer a great brunch deal. That’s why when we met Shawn in his neighborhood for brunch last weekend, we had to follow his lead. He introduced…
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My friend Wendy is a fabulous foodie who also knows her way around a kitchen. If she says a restaurant is good, you can probably take her word for it. I reached out to her for suggestions for Jen’s visit because Jen wanted to be sure to check out the hottest spot on the NYC…
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Not to brag, but I called Harold Dieterle’s win on the first episode of the first season of Top Chef. I had an intuition that he would become wildly successful and years later I was finally able to taste that success myself at his first [of three] restaurants opened since his Top Chef win. You…
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For my December restaurant pick, I wanted someplace that was similar enough to Albert’s choice of 5 Tacos so we could make a fair [enough] comparison between the two. It didn’t need to be tacos or even Mexican, but I did want it to be someplace casual with only a few chairs that served simple, authentic…
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Everybody in NYC has their neighborhood slice place. If you don’t, it means your realtor lied to you and you’re not actually living in New York. I hope Minnesota is nice this time of year. One of the pizza joints in my neighborhood is just a teensy bit nicer than normal. It’s not significantly different…
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When I wanted a full meal but didn’t feel like cooking last week I decided to give Noturo a shot. It’s a little Italian place around the corner from my apartment where I always saw families or older couples when I spied through the windows on my walk back from the grocery store. Since Italian…
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Defonte’s is a Brooklyn institution. It’s an old school Italian sandwich shop where you shouldn’t dare ask for substitutions on these large sandwiches that look like they could feed the whole firehouse. These are manly sandwiches at girly prices (nothing over $11). The Manhattan branch may be a little shinier but from what I hear,…
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Steph loves to go to Il Bastardo because it’s easy for her to get to from Hoboken and they apparently do a rowdy, dance party brunch. It’s hard to imagine that when you’re eating lunch there on a random weekday (which I was fortunate enough to do thanks to a pre-memorial day off work), but…
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By the time I made it to the restaurant on Thursday, Steph had already put in an order for pizza at Pala, a place she stumbled into before instructing me to abandon our original restaurant plan and meet her there. She had ordered the spinach pizza, which was topped with a sweet cherry tomato sauce,…
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Peaches to Apples 