Cuisine. Culture. Commentary.
I discovered Taproom No. 307 on a run and made a mental note to check it out. Apparently, my mental notes can’t be trusted because it took me months to actually remember to go. (Note: when I say I remembered, what I really mean is I didn’t remember at all – Albert actually suggested it.)…
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By the time I made it to the restaurant on Thursday, Steph had already put in an order for pizza at Pala, a place she stumbled into before instructing me to abandon our original restaurant plan and meet her there. She had ordered the spinach pizza, which was topped with a sweet cherry tomato sauce,…
Read MoreAshley and I had a couple of overlapping trips – me to Curacao, her to Hong Kong/Manila and Savannah. With all that exciting travel going on, we needed a dinner to catch each other up and decided to go to Numero 28 Pizzeria. The brick oven pizza was nice and rustic – they didn’t worry…
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Once word got out about the food at Roberta’s, it was tough to get in the door. After The New York Times gave it a two star review, it became dang near impossible. Yesterday, Jen decided that’s where she wanted to go for brunch and no line was going to get in her way. The…
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I can’t believe I forgot about Mediterraneo. The food is simple but well prepared and the atmosphere – when you can sit outside in the European-type cafe space – is a joy. Since my parents weren’t flying out til late on Monday night, we were actually able to stuff three full meals into our schedule. …
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I can only hope that when I am old enough to have a 6-year-old child that I am still cool enough to party til 2:40 AM like the people I babysat for last night. My sister-in-law’s cousins came to NYC with their daughter to see LCD Soundsystem’s farewell concert. While they were partying it up…
Read MoreVirtually every New Yorker is on the same quest to find the best pizza in NYC. While this is an impossible task, it doesn’t stop me from trying. There are two distinct pizza styles in The Big Apple: brick oven and New York slice. Let’s table the slice convo for a moment as it is…
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Peaches to Apples 