Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I had no idea how vegetarians survived until eating here. Westville is not a vegetarian restaurant, but the long list of daily market sides is the best thing about this place. Everything is so simple and fresh, and that is enough to draw long lines for this no-reservations spot. Karina and I both started with…
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Soho Park, on the corner of Prince and Lafayette, is the closest thing to a relaxing beer garden that you can get in the busy Soho area. Though it might be a madhouse around Balthazar and topshop, it’s nice and chill in this gazebo. Most everything is under $10 and the portions are sizable. I…
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No. 7 Subs, my favorite sandwich place of all time, has some competition. Num Pang is a Cambodian sandwich place that I have heard about enough to become immune to it. However, I never walked past it and always forgot to seek it out so it so I figured it just wouldn’t end up making…
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Last Thursday we celebrated Erica’s birthday – 30, Flirty, and Fun! Yes, that’s a quote from “13 Going on 30”, but it also became our theme for the evening. I may have been the only single gal, but the other four married/engaged girls were flirty enough to make our waiter blush and after several cucumber…
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I have shrugged off The Soft Serve Fruit Co. as another Pinkberry-esque fro-yo place for about a year. It kind of is, but there is something that sets it apart: its all fruit. Seriously, the only three ingredients are fruit, water, and a little organic cane syrup. The result is true fruit flavor. I stopped…
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It had been far too long since I had hung out with my work mentor, Ira. I still hold a grudge for him leaving me all alone at our agency to take a hot-to-trot job on the client side, but it was time to push that aside when I needed his discerning eye for decor.…
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Anne and I were meeting up with some friends for a drink (or four) at Whiskey Town around 11/11:30, but we were both ready to head out early and wanted to get a drink under our belts at a calmer establishment first. I had been hearing great things about The Wren and knew I liked…
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Saturday was another one of me and Podz’ “neighborhood days” where we pick a ‘hood and just walk around, checking out all of its unique spots. Today’s spotlight is Harlem, a neighborhood I’ve scarcely visited in all my five years in New York but one I am now obsessed with. Harlem is undergoing a second…
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What a lucky girl I was to get quality Italian two nights in a row! The vibe and setting of Osteria Morini could not have been more different from the previous night’s meal at A Voce. Instead of the white tablecloths and sleek modern lines of the Time Warner Center, we were seated at rustic…
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The ball was in my court for picking a work dinner last week with the only condition being that we not stray too far from the office. I went with A Voce in the Time Warner Center (Columbus Circle) for some much praised fine Italian. It’s a lot of pressure to pick a restaurant when…
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Peaches to Apples 