Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Deep in the Lower East Side near Chinatown you’ll find 169 Bar, one helluva dive. All I had to hear was that they have a $5 shot + beer deal and all my reservations of traveling that far for a party disappeared. There are all sorts or random lights and objects hanging off the walls…
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Food trucks have recently deemed the front of my office building a good place to park, which means temptation is now ever-present. I had resisted for quite some time, which was easy since I typically bring my lunch to work. On Thursday, however, I just didn’t have time to make my turkey and cheese sandwich.…
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When I hit up Smorgasburg for the first [but obviously not the last] time this season, I was determined to try at least one thing I had not eaten there before. The winner was Bite Size Kitchen, a catering company that specializes in Asian inspired apps. On their Smorgasburg menu were four different types of…
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When the sign outside a restaurant reads “Beer. Biscuits. Pickles.” I need no further description to know it’s a place I need to try. Jacob’s Pickles on the Upper West Side has all my Southern favorites like fried green tomatoes and collard greens, much of the menu infused with briny goodness, including the drinks. I…
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Everyone complains about jury duty, but I’m sure they would be singing a different tune if they realized how close the courthouse is to Smile to Go. I’ve written about The Smile before and would go as far to say it’s one of my favorite spots in the city, but until now had not had…
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The hot new spot in Murray Hill is without a doubt Salvation Taco. It’s interesting that April Bloomfield and Ken Friedman’s restaurant is constantly packed because it is nothing like the places that typically attract crowds in Murray Hill, meaning they’ve actually paid attention to decor and food quality and have shied away from a frat…
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My Mom arrived for her visit a day earlier than my Daddy so we could have a little bit of one on one time. Ain’t she thoughtful? She landed early enough in the day that we could head straight to breakfast and since this was Mommy/Daughter time I had to pick a place with ample…
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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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Peaches to Apples 