Zak Pelaccio’s Pop-Up Ham Restaurant: Fatty Johnson’s
We're huge Zak Pelaccio fans, whether he's laying out the funky Malaysian flavors at the Fatty Crab Restaurant (either location; they're both great), or serving us plates of smoky delights at the excellent Fatty 'Cue in Brooklyn, or throwing a tongue-taco party (also: other Mexican dishes) every night at Cabrito. The sad news: Pelaccio closed […]
Chef Marcus Samuelsson Opens Red Rooster in Harlem
Superstar Chef Marcus Samuelsson–the youngest ever to earn two three-star reviews from the New York Times, for his creations in the kitchen at Aquavit–has long wanted to open a first-class restaurant in his neighborhood up in Harlem. And, once Samuelsson announced last spring that the dream was becoming a reality in the form of Red […]
Porsena NYC: Sara Jenkins’s New Pasta Restaurant
Chef Sara Jenkins, of considerable East Village renown for her amazing sandwiches at tiny Porchetta, has opened a "real", multi-tabled pasta place near Cooper Square, Porsena NYC. So far, however–and despite serving one of the best plates of food we've had all year–there seems to be more growing pains than dining pleasures in her endeavors. […]
Mile End deli in Brooklyn, now serving dinner
Foodparc NYC: Jeffrey Chodorow’s High-Tech “Food Hall”
Three's a trend? Foodparc NYC, Jeffrey Chodorow and Ed Schoenfeld's futuristic food court in northern Chelsea/southwest Midtown, joins the Plaza Food Hall (from Todd English) and the gigundo Eataly (from Mario Batalli) as 2010's most-likely-to-succeed multi-station restaurants with a high-end pedigree. But while Foodparc definitely shares some of the features of its food court counterparts–multiple, differently […]
Peter Pan Donuts–the best in NYC–now also at Brooklyn Farmacy
File under: fun and tasty Saturday family adventure. The Peter Pan Bakery in Greenpoint (on Manhattan Avenue; near the Nassau G-train stop) has been attracting donut lovers by the dozens (and dozens… and dozens) for a few years now, and especially after Tina Fey raved about them rather salaciously in Esquire. And this isn't empty […]
Rubirosa NYC
We had so long ago ceded Little Italy to the tourists that it seems almost counter-intuitive to head over to Mulberry Street to eat pasta and pizza and zeppole and the like. And yet, there we were, twice this past week, ordering up a storm from the old-school menu at Rubirosa NYC. Opened in early […]
Hung Ry Noodle Shop NYC
As we head into that big-bowls-of-steaming-meaty-noodle-soup time of year, our favorite discovery of the new fall restaurant season has to be Hung Ry, a lovely, almost shockingly soothing spot on what has become an ever-increasingly excellent though definitely frenetic dining scene on Bowery (think Peels, Hecho en Dumbo, DBGB, Pulino’s, etc.). Located on a quiet, […]
Francois Payard’s Bakery New York, New on West Houston Street
Francois Payard's dreams of an eclair empire here in New York City may have been set back a bit two summers ago, when the renowned pastry chef closed his namesake patisserie on the Upper East Side after a rent fight with his landlord. But with the recent opening of Francois Payard's Bakery NYC on West […]
Artichoke Basille’s Pizza Restaurant and Bar
We’re huge fans of the hole-in-the-wall Artichoke Pizza slice joint on East 14th Street: the Margarita (“regular”) slice is beautifully balanced and topped with fresh ingredients; the Sicilian, also, is excellent, the crust light and crunchy; and the signature Artichoke slice, slathered with an insanely rich and creamy spinach, cheese and artichoke sauce? Like eating […]
We're huge Zak Pelaccio fans, whether he's laying out the funky Malaysian flavors at the Fatty Crab Restaurant (either location; they're both great), or serving us plates of smoky delights at the excellent Fatty 'Cue in Brooklyn, or throwing a tongue-taco party (also: other Mexican dishes) every night at Cabrito. The sad news: Pelaccio closed […]
Chef Marcus Samuelsson Opens Red Rooster in Harlem
Superstar Chef Marcus Samuelsson–the youngest ever to earn two three-star reviews from the New York Times, for his creations in the kitchen at Aquavit–has long wanted to open a first-class restaurant in his neighborhood up in Harlem. And, once Samuelsson announced last spring that the dream was becoming a reality in the form of Red […]
Porsena NYC: Sara Jenkins’s New Pasta Restaurant
Chef Sara Jenkins, of considerable East Village renown for her amazing sandwiches at tiny Porchetta, has opened a "real", multi-tabled pasta place near Cooper Square, Porsena NYC. So far, however–and despite serving one of the best plates of food we've had all year–there seems to be more growing pains than dining pleasures in her endeavors. […]
Mile End deli in Brooklyn, now serving dinner
Foodparc NYC: Jeffrey Chodorow’s High-Tech “Food Hall”
Three's a trend? Foodparc NYC, Jeffrey Chodorow and Ed Schoenfeld's futuristic food court in northern Chelsea/southwest Midtown, joins the Plaza Food Hall (from Todd English) and the gigundo Eataly (from Mario Batalli) as 2010's most-likely-to-succeed multi-station restaurants with a high-end pedigree. But while Foodparc definitely shares some of the features of its food court counterparts–multiple, differently […]
Peter Pan Donuts–the best in NYC–now also at Brooklyn Farmacy
File under: fun and tasty Saturday family adventure. The Peter Pan Bakery in Greenpoint (on Manhattan Avenue; near the Nassau G-train stop) has been attracting donut lovers by the dozens (and dozens… and dozens) for a few years now, and especially after Tina Fey raved about them rather salaciously in Esquire. And this isn't empty […]
Rubirosa NYC
We had so long ago ceded Little Italy to the tourists that it seems almost counter-intuitive to head over to Mulberry Street to eat pasta and pizza and zeppole and the like. And yet, there we were, twice this past week, ordering up a storm from the old-school menu at Rubirosa NYC. Opened in early […]
Hung Ry Noodle Shop NYC
As we head into that big-bowls-of-steaming-meaty-noodle-soup time of year, our favorite discovery of the new fall restaurant season has to be Hung Ry, a lovely, almost shockingly soothing spot on what has become an ever-increasingly excellent though definitely frenetic dining scene on Bowery (think Peels, Hecho en Dumbo, DBGB, Pulino’s, etc.). Located on a quiet, […]
Francois Payard’s Bakery New York, New on West Houston Street
Francois Payard's dreams of an eclair empire here in New York City may have been set back a bit two summers ago, when the renowned pastry chef closed his namesake patisserie on the Upper East Side after a rent fight with his landlord. But with the recent opening of Francois Payard's Bakery NYC on West […]
Artichoke Basille’s Pizza Restaurant and Bar
We’re huge fans of the hole-in-the-wall Artichoke Pizza slice joint on East 14th Street: the Margarita (“regular”) slice is beautifully balanced and topped with fresh ingredients; the Sicilian, also, is excellent, the crust light and crunchy; and the signature Artichoke slice, slathered with an insanely rich and creamy spinach, cheese and artichoke sauce? Like eating […]