Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
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 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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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…
Read MoreOnce 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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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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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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Since my two-week Xmas break started today, I wanted to make the most of it by trying a new restaurant. Then there was the problem of deciding where I wanted to go. The Ace Hotel (a new-ish boutique hotel on the random corner of 29th and Broadway) has one of the greatest lobbies in New…
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Matt texted me this morning that he and Jen just got a car and they were planning to go on an adventure to Flushing for Korean food. Would I like to join? Um, yes. Matt and Jen heard from a Korean friend that Ham Ji Bak was legit. As we drove up, I had a…
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Today I traded the New York Times for a couple of magazines during my Sunday coffee house ritual. While catching up on this week’s Time Out, I came across their feature on the city’s best new burgers. We all know about Burger Joint and Minetta, but apparently some newbies are tearing up the scene. Of…
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If the name of your establishment is Amy’s Bread, you better be able to do some amazing things with yeast. Amy’s Bread has always been suggested to me for dessert, but the cupcakes in the case never screamed at me, so I always walked by. This evening, however, I had some time to kill before…
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Peaches to Apples 