Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
After a combo 1/2 marathon and St. Patty’s Day celebration on Sunday, we decided we needed to soak up all our green beer with some Italian food and headed to the closest place we could find, Acqua. Acqua stands out as a nicer restaurant in the middle of the more sparsely populated South Street Seaport…
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Daniel Boulud may be a French chef, but the focus of his Boulud Sud is Mediterranean. I would say it’s more “inspired” rather than smack you in the face with a bunch of chickpeas kind of Mediterranean and this subtlety only makes it seem more high end. We started by getting a whole slew of…
Read MoreAshley and I had a couple of overlapping trips – me to Curacao, her to Hong Kong/Manila and Savannah. With all that exciting travel going on, we needed a dinner to catch each other up and decided to go to Numero 28 Pizzeria. The brick oven pizza was nice and rustic – they didn’t worry…
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I’m sure The Redhead was to beginning to feel more like the red headed stepchild for all the time it had been sitting on my list of restaurants to try. I knew there was a Southern influence, but had I known there were Lowcountry items on the menu, I would have made sure to get…
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The bars in the West 30s all have the same pub feel, which is fine for what they are bound to become: happy hour spots for all us Midtown suits. I was happy to walk into The Liberty and see something different in this part of town. Instead of mirrors displaying a beer logo and…
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Because our NYC Dawgs board meeting was scheduled at supper time, we all planned to grab food on our way to Hansel’s apartment and eat during our working session. Hansel lives in the financial district, an area I am wholly unfamiliar with so I picked up food from the place closest to her apartment, grk. After…
Read MorePenelope stands out in Murray Hill as the one adorable brunch place. It’s a cutesy cafe with rustic windows serving simple but comforting foods like grilled cheese, the BLT, and salads. Unfortunately, since it’s the only restaurant of this category in the neighborhood, the line is always ridiculous. In no mood to wait for an…
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If you ask just about any New Yorker what’s on their brunch bucket list, the name Balthazar will likely pop up. On any given weekend, the line is out the door. Even on a freezing Sunday like we just had, the wait was over an hour. This French bistro is as close to Paris as…
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La Giara is one of the few places in my immediate neighborhood that I hadn’t tried, so I was excited when Marilynn decided to hold her 25th birthday brunch there. I never thought of it as a brunch place – walking by, it seems more like a traditional Italian supper spot. Turns out, they do…
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At about 1:30 AM on Friday night, I received a text from Karina that she was in the mood for Chinese food and a facial. Thankfully I was still awake to make plans and set my alarm so we could make sure to arrive at Mission Chinese early enough to beat the crowds. If you…
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Peaches to Apples 