November 10, 2023

Healthy Thanksgiving Side Dishes

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If you have wanted to experiment with healthy side dishes to balance out your Thanksgiving meal, this is a great year to get started! Since this year calls for Thanksgiving to be celebrated with just those in your immediate household, you don’t have to worry about everyone in your extended family’s meal preferences. We have […]

January 26, 2015

Super Bowl 2015: Best Catered & Take Out Food In NYC

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Although New York City will not have the excitement of hosting the Super Bowl as it did last year maybe we get a better game. If you have an apartment large enough to host your group of friends you're probably not looking to cook for a crowd. If you're looking to skip the craziness of NYC sports bars but are in search of a seat, a view, pitchers (or bottles) and a steady flow of food, we got you covered!

August 11, 2014

For Your Labor Day Grilling: Check Out These Great NYC Butcher Shops

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A new breed of butcher is changing the face of NYC meat markets, combining old-fashioned personalized service with a contemporary commitment to locavore ideals. So for your Labor Day grilling, take a look at some of these shops in your neighborhood!

October 11, 2013

Enjoy Shake Shack’s Shacktoberfest Menu, Through 10/13 Only!

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Shake Shack celebrates October with their annual Shacktoberfest, where they add on special sausage and beer items to their menu for a limited time!

July 15, 2013

Upper East Side Gem 83 1/2 Reopens as Italian Restaurant

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When 83 1/2 opened last fall in the heart of Glenwood's Upper East Side territory, I was excited. With well-known Chef Ryan Skeen manning the burners–he of Allen and Delancey, Resto, and 5 & Diamond fame/notoriety, among others–and a modest, local-favorite sort of feel, it seemed like just the sort of place the neighborhood needs.

May 28, 2013

Gajyumaru Japanese and Sushi Restaurant; Upper East Side Neighborhood Gem

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There are probably a hundred restaurants in this town that look exactly like Gajyumaru, especially, perhaps, on the avenues of the Upper East and Upper West Sides. You know the type of place: narrow, travel posters as decor, outdated color scheme, random menu, an overall feeling of fatigue.

March 26, 2013

Dulce Vida Cafe; Authentic Colombian Restaurant in New York City

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Dulce Vida Cafe and Bakery, Lexington Avenue restaurant, is the type of place that you'd probably hurry past a hundred times without much more than a glance or two in the window. Inside, the mishmash of table-clothed dining to your right, huge food photos plastered to your left (are those coffee beans?), combined with the […]

February 18, 2013

Pip’s Place; Gluten Free Bakery on the Upper East Side

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It was 2006 when Erin McKenna opened up BabyCakes, slinging her amazing gluten-free (and vegan) baked goodies from a cute, tiny storefront on the Lower East Side. We first stumbled across BabyCakes about a year later, during intermission of a "Shakespeare In the Parking Lot" performance going on around the corner, and though we were […]

October 12, 2011

Le Moulin a Cafe: casual French Food on the Upper East Side

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Le Moulin a Cafe: a new neighborhood spot with delicious French food including desserts, coffee and salads on New York's Upper East side near Glenwood's historic Pavillion.