The Commodore

Yesterday was all about eating in Williamsburg.  We started the afternoon by going to 3rd Ward‘s 3rd Annual Pig Out! celebration.  3rd Ward is an artist collective that offers classes and workspace and apparently some pretty awesome events.  Check it out if you’re artsy…or if you just like fun, porky events.  The team from the…

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Meatball Shop

On Saturday night, Matt, Greg, Susan, Dave and I headed to the LES to celebrate Susan’s successful fundraising event for the Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup efforts.  Susan put together a fabulous New Orleans themed event (think: bloody marys, hurricanes, king cake, Popeye’s, beads, and a great raffle) so a little afterparty was in order and…

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Kefi

Dave knows how to keep me happy throughout my bday weekend – help me cross more restaurants off my list!  I’m rarely in the UWS, but we had to run and errand and found ourselves hungry for lunch in an unfamiliar neighborhood.  Since we were in the mood to explore, we decided to walk around…

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Dovetail

I have a very good reason for not blogging recently: my parents were in town!!!  Not sure if you know this, but my parents are incredibly cool, so when they’re here, they receive every ounce of my attention.  We pretty much did everything there was to do, so let me start at the beginning. Friday…

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Saravana

Here’s a tip, fellow diners: if you walk into an ethnic restaurant and every patron is of that ethnicity and speaking a language other than English, you’ve likely hit the jackpot.  That was my experience this past Saturday night at Saravana.  Hearing only foreign sounds was music to my ears because I knew I was…

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Los Feliz

Saturday night, we headed to the LES to celebrate Matt’s last year in his 20s.  Jen, ever the superior restaurant/location scout, chose Los Feliz as home to the festivities.  I knew I was in for a big night when I grabbed what I thought was an extensive wine list to discover that it was a…

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