On Saturday evening, Podz texted me that she just discovered an Ethiopian restaurant in her neighborhood. We had just been talking about how we love Ethiopian food but there are only two restaurants in NYC. Scratch that; apparently there are three. I said we should definitely check it out sometime. Wait a minute – sometime?…
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Macondo
Last night was time to celebrate Greg’s 29th birthday with dinner and some bar fun. A few of us met at Macondo for dinner before meeting the rest of the crew at the bar. I’ve heard Macondo has a great drunk brunch so I still plan on returning for that, but dinner was a good…
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Last Saturday we celebrated Matt’s birthday at Ninth Ward. I was impressed for two reasons: I really like the bar – great crowd Jen, who’s been going to sleep around 9:30 due to the fact that she’s popping out a baby in just over 5 weeks, managed to stay up super late This New Orleans…
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Sammy’s Roumanian
I’ve heard of Sammy’s Roumanian, but I finally got to experience it last week. Wowzas. Growing up in Savannah, GA, I didn’t get to go to many bar mitzvahs, but I made up for it last Thursday. I’m not exaggerating. It’s a bar mitzvah for grown ups. Let me set the scene: Walk in the…
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ABC Kitchen
Last week I got to cross one of the biggies off my list by dining at ABC Kitchen. After reading all the reviews of one of 2010’s hottest openings, I had been dying to try. It is connected to ABC Carpet and Home, which means it is outfitted by one of the city’s to-die-for home…
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Clinton Street Baking Company
Clinton Street Baking Company was voted Best Pancakes in 2008 by New York Magazine (not to mention Best Breakfast/Brunch by Time Out in 2007) so it promised to serve some solid pancakes, especially during pancake month. I’ve heard about pancake month since I moved to NYC but haven’t managed to make it to the LES,…
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Sarabeth’s
I was all ready to take this weekend by storm…until I went to my annual eye exam yesterday morning. I thought I would hear the same “Your prescription got worse; you have really bad eyesight” that I hear every other year. Unfortunate, but I’m used to my near blindness. Instead, I was told that I…
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Once again, Saturday night was girls night. We went in with a plan: a little champy with Em and Shelby at their apartment and then out to explore the west side. Typically, Raychel and I are east side gals, but since the West Village is just a hop skip ad jump away from their Chelsea…
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Grey Dog
My cousin Amy was in town for the weekend and although Matt and I got to hang out with her on Saturday night for a little drunken revelry, we wanted to make sure we got in some sober time. That led us to an MLK breakfast this morning during our day off work. I rarely…
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Egg
After a couple days of being extremely lazy, yesterday was certainly a turn of events. I headed to Brooklyn to meet Jen for lunch. Jen let me pick the restaurant, so I chose one I have heard a lot about. egg is constantly written up for their breakfast sandwich and Southern-style cuisine, but the brunch…
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Peaches to Apples 