Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I think of Delicatessen as one of those beautiful people restaurants. Maybe it’s because there are lots of fancy stores in SoHo. Maybe it’s because the restaurant is so crisp and white. At 28 years old I should not be so easily intimidated. There was nothing scary about the restaurant and I was pretty enough…
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B Flat calls itself an “authentic bar”. If a bar serves alcohol, I would consider it authentic…but that’s just semantics. I suppose they consider themselves legitimate because they have a whiskey on the menu that is $28 for 2 oz. I am not the kind of person that would order that but still found the…
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When I say I’m going to eat downtown, I usually mean East Village, Lower East Side, SoHo, or West Village. Rarely does “downtown” mean anything lower than that. But when two of your friends live basically at the bottom tip of the city, you may have to travel a bit. This time, a dinner date…
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Extra Virgin is a great place for a date. I know this because while I was there with a couple girlfriends, we noticed most of the tables around us were occupied by couples. And why wouldn’t they be? Extra Virgin is a tiny West Village restaurant and “tiny” and “West Village” are three words that…
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I know I just wrote about a Top Chef restaurant, but I’m doing it again just a week later. I probably shouldn’t be surprised when a restaurant by a Top Chef alum is actually good. They made it onto the show by being at the top of their game, but after 11 seasons of the…
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For Albert’s birthday I gave him monogrammed beer mugs and then took him to Good Beer so he could put them to good use. As his present, he got to build two custom 6-packs and enjoy a beer flight. He was like a kid in a candy store. If a craft beer ships to NYC,…
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I was wary when Amy wanted to eat at Hu Kitchen before a movie this weekend. One look at the menu and I could tell it was super healthy – and not in the sneak veggies into your kids’ meals sort of way. The word “organic” was thrown around a little too often for my…
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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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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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Peaches to Apples 