Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
B Flat calls itself an “authentic bar”. If a bar serves alcohol, I would consider it authentic…but that’s just semantics. I suppose they consider themselves legitimate because they have a whiskey on the menu that is $28 for 2 oz. I am not the kind of person that would order that but still found the…
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When I say I’m going to eat downtown, I usually mean East Village, Lower East Side, SoHo, or West Village. Rarely does “downtown” mean anything lower than that. But when two of your friends live basically at the bottom tip of the city, you may have to travel a bit. This time, a dinner date…
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I know I just wrote about a Top Chef restaurant, but I’m doing it again just a week later. I probably shouldn’t be surprised when a restaurant by a Top Chef alum is actually good. They made it onto the show by being at the top of their game, but after 11 seasons of the…
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There’s something to be said about breaking from the routine. Something good. I have my go-to Thai spot for delivery (don’t we all?), but while I was walking home last Sunday night I stopped in Thainy for something new. I ordered the chicken dumplings and the street noodles. The dumplings only come four to an…
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My brother set the bar extraordinarily high before his annual NYC visit. He told me I needed to find us a restaurant 1) with food he can’t get in Savannah (that’s not Chinese or Korean), 2) is not in an outer borough, 3) is reasonably priced, 4) would knock his socks off. They said it…
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What? Huh? *Nervous Giggle* *Nervous Giggle*. That was my response when I walked into my birthday dinner with Albert to discover that the whole time I thought he had planned nothing beyond the idea of us doing dinner together on my bday, he was really plotting to arrange something with a group of my closest…
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Kunjip, you elusive K Town restaurant, you evade me no longer! I finally arrived for dinner early enough to avoid the 45 minute (minimum) line and was seated a mere 15 or 20 minutes after arrival. Contributing to the line is the fact that it is smaller than most K Town restaurants, but the food…
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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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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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With a fussy 21 month old, you don’t get the luxury of long dinners, but that doesn’t make the food any less good. Yunnan Kitchen is a relatively new trendy Chinese spot in the LES that has proven tough to get into during prime dining time. The New York Times quickly learned of it’s growing…
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Peaches to Apples 