Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
Why serve regular white rice when you could easily serve cilantro lime rice? Stupid question – you would never serve boring white rice when cilantro lime rice is an option. I got this idea from good ol Chipotle who claims to serve cilantro rice. If you tell me you taste anything other than plain white…
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Lime and mole are the two things I really took away from my Camion (@camionnyc) food truck experience. When it comes to burritos, those are good takeaways. Anybody can make a burrito like Chipotle, but getting rice infused with cilantro and lime and a deep sriracha mole sauce is better. There could have maaaaybe been…
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One of my main missions in LA was to eat as many fish tacos as possible. It’s one of those quintessential SoCal dishes that has not been perfected on the same scale on the East Coast. On our first day in Santa Monica, Albert and I sought out the local treat and went no further…
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I bought a huge bag of cotija cheese for the tacos I made for Cinco de Mayo so I decided to use it for esquites. Esquites is a creamy grilled corn dish that’s basically mexican street food. I have never really walked the streets of Mexico, but I discovered the dish at a restaurant in…
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The Dish: When Karen wants to cheer Regina up she offers “You want to do something fun? You want to go to Taco Bell?” The fact that Taco Bell is Karen’s idea of fun is how I know she and I would certainly have been in the same clique at school, despite her lack of…
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While the boys were golfing before a wedding this past weekend, the girls went off to do our own thing. We got our nails done, we did a little shopping, and we stopped at a really cute restaurant for lunch. It was hard to choose a place to eat in the West Hartford area –…
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There is no better way to celebrate a successful race completion than by brunching. Hardcore, bottomless brunching, to be specific. Since we were going to be in Astoria Sunday afternoon for Karina’s birthday, we decided to do brunch in that neighborhood and picked MexiBBQ since they had a $16 bottomless deal. I would say the…
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Usually places serving tiny and authentic tacos are tiny themselves. Not Cafe el Presidente. The Flatiron space feels more open than just about anything in NYC. It’s enough room to house a juice bar that I thought was for show until I tried the spiked sandia cocktail – fresh watermelon juice with tequila. Que fresca! (Did…
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11th Avenue is a bit of a wasteland. One of our partner agencies is over there and I’ve felt pretty bad for them when it came to their lunch options. That is, until now when Gotham West Market opened. Gotham West Market is an upscale food court on the ground floor of a luxury apartment…
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Date nights don’t have to be on weekends. On Wednesday Albert asked if I wanted to hang out and even had the idea to grab a quick bite and go to a fun indie flick downtown. It was so different from a typical Wednesday and embodied everything I love about this city. We saw the…
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Peaches to Apples 