Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
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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I try to refrain from blogging about the same place twice, but when I can’t stop thinking about a restaurant you deserve to hear me sing its praises. Dominique Ansel Bakery is my favorite bakery in the City, maybe even my favorite bakery of all the bakeries there ever were. This is huge considering how…
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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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Have you ever been disappointed in something when the outcome wasn’t even that bad? That’s how I felt about Alder. The restaurant had been #1 on my list for about seven months and for good reason: it earned a 2-star review from The New York Times, is currently on at least three “Best of 2013”…
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While we may have barely squeezed in our monthly restaurant picks in the past, Albert got in his December pick on the first of the month. Every time we walked past Five Tacos we were on our way to another restaurant, but it looked good enough that I did a little research online. That’s where…
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If you were Jean-Georges, you would build a gorgeous restaurant in the bottom of your apartment building, wouldn’t you? And then you would make your son the head chef, right? I certainly would. It’s the epitome of convenience. Well, it is for him. For me, it was less than easy to get a cab all…
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I think they nailed it in “There’s Something About Mary” when they marvel at how there should be more food on sticks. Food on a stick is portable and fun to eat and shouldn’t be limited to corn dogs. Stick food doesn’t have to mean ballpark, as exemplified by Stix, a restaurant that focuses on…
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When I walked by Arctica (a douchy typical Murray hill bar) and noticed it was now Whitman and Bloom I thought…oh good, Arctica 2.0. But when Albert said that’s what he wanted for his November pick, I couldn’t argue. You see, we’re trying to establish a tradition where we each choose 1-2 new restaurants or…
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I figured beer cheese was basically my beloved pimento cheese but with beer. If anything, I thought it would just have a whippier consistency. Unfortunately, Floyd Beer Cheese was a bit too crumbly for my taste. The flavor was spot on. A little hoppy from the beer, smoky from the bacon, and just a bit…
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I recently had my first bar hopping excursion in Astoria. I don’t know if it’s considered a full hop since I only went to two bars, but that’s two more than I’d been to before. The second bar we went to really struck a chord with me. The whiskey chord. I hear it now as…
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Peaches to Apples 