Hu Kitchen: Organic Healthy Restaurant in Downtown NYC
It’s easy to poke a little fun at Hu Kitchen, the newest NYC downtown restaurant. They’re known for serving what they call, “Food for Humans” that’s pre-industrial, pre-agrarian cuisine in a bi-level and attractively rustic space near Union Square. What is “Pre-Industrial, Pre-Agrarian Cuisine?” It’s using kitchen tools like blenders for smoothies. Hu Kitchen’s co-owners […]
Birdbath Bakery; City Bakery’s superb spin-off on the Upper West Side!
Upper West Side Glenwood residents, your life just got a whole lot sweeter and more pretzel-croissant-ier. City Bakery founder Maury Rubin is opening one of his excellent Birdbaths, you know those small "neighborhood green bakery" satellites at Columbus and 84th Street. The Upper West Side is already flush with baked goodies from Levain, Momofuku Milk […]
Orchard Street NYC: Pickle Day 2012 Part of the Lower East Side Experience!
The changes on Orchard Street have been gradual. Its one of Manhattan's most historic parts of town, with dozens of new art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants opening up over the last five years. This Sunday, Orchard Street will celebrate its piece of NYC history with Pickle Day 2012. The 11-year-old festival celebrates the […]
Jacob’s Pickles: Diamond in the Rough for Upper West Side Restaurants
What was the most surprising thing about our massive feast the other night at Jacob's Pickles in NYC, which has been open for almost a year now on the Upper West Side? No, it wasn't that our food—ordered from all over the Jacob's Pickles menu—was so good, the huge plates of classic comfort dishes prepared […]
Pig and Khao: Top Chef Leah Cohen’s New Lower East Side Restaurant
File this under: "totally worth the trip." Pig and Khao is Top Chef star Leah Cohen's recently opened Lower East side restaurant on Clinton Street that it is both intriguing and delicious. Complimented by a select team from the great Fatty Crab, Cohen starts with classic Thai and Filipino comfort dishes and adds her own flavor-exploding riffs. […]
Vegan Divas Bakery Serves Excellent Sweets on the Upper East Side
Frequent readers of the Glenwood blog will know we love bakeries. And so we approached with some trepidation the notion of an all-vegan bakery. If you're thinking, like we did, "Vegan doughnuts? Why bother?" then you've probably never tried the little beauties now being served in the cute new bakery/coffee-spot, Vegan Divas. Founded by the […]
Aquafit Chef Marcus Samuelsson Opens Restaurant at Lincoln Center
In his smart, highly entertaining memoir "Yes, Chef," the internationally renowned Marcus Samuelsson–who, at the age of 24, earned three stars from the Times as Executive Chef at Aquavit, and then went on to open the acclaimed, packed-nightly Red Rooster in Harlem, a Glenwood favorite–does two things especially well. First, he brings to life his […]
Dirty Bird To-Go: Best Fried Chicken in NYC Now in Tribeca
Downtown Glenwood residents, meet your new favorite take-out/quick-bite spot: Dirty Bird To-Go in Tribeca. Or, at a minimum, a new entry into your own personal top five. Dirty Bird To-Go has long been known for some of the best fried chicken in NYC at its West 14th Street location. In fact Matt Stone, he of considerable Book […]
All Good Things Tribeca Features Orwasher’s, NuNu Chocolates & More
The sign on the door still says "Mostly Open", but the news is excellent for Tribeca-area Glenwood residents and everyone else in this town who enjoys fresh, delicious food: All Good Things NYC, a year-round Tribeca market (with restaurant to come, hence the 'Mostly") opened last week on a quiet stretch of Franklin Street, instantly […]
DUMBO Restaurants like Governor Give a Reason to Head to Brooklyn
As usual, we tried out a lot of new restaurants all over town this past summer, and, as it turns out, possibly our best meal of the season (real summer, not calendar summer) came on practically the last day of the season, on a cobblestoned street in Brooklyn, at DUMBO’s Governor, which was opened in […]
It’s easy to poke a little fun at Hu Kitchen, the newest NYC downtown restaurant. They’re known for serving what they call, “Food for Humans” that’s pre-industrial, pre-agrarian cuisine in a bi-level and attractively rustic space near Union Square. What is “Pre-Industrial, Pre-Agrarian Cuisine?” It’s using kitchen tools like blenders for smoothies. Hu Kitchen’s co-owners […]
Birdbath Bakery; City Bakery’s superb spin-off on the Upper West Side!
Upper West Side Glenwood residents, your life just got a whole lot sweeter and more pretzel-croissant-ier. City Bakery founder Maury Rubin is opening one of his excellent Birdbaths, you know those small "neighborhood green bakery" satellites at Columbus and 84th Street. The Upper West Side is already flush with baked goodies from Levain, Momofuku Milk […]
Orchard Street NYC: Pickle Day 2012 Part of the Lower East Side Experience!
The changes on Orchard Street have been gradual. Its one of Manhattan's most historic parts of town, with dozens of new art galleries, boutiques, coffee shops and restaurants opening up over the last five years. This Sunday, Orchard Street will celebrate its piece of NYC history with Pickle Day 2012. The 11-year-old festival celebrates the […]
Jacob’s Pickles: Diamond in the Rough for Upper West Side Restaurants
What was the most surprising thing about our massive feast the other night at Jacob's Pickles in NYC, which has been open for almost a year now on the Upper West Side? No, it wasn't that our food—ordered from all over the Jacob's Pickles menu—was so good, the huge plates of classic comfort dishes prepared […]
Pig and Khao: Top Chef Leah Cohen’s New Lower East Side Restaurant
File this under: "totally worth the trip." Pig and Khao is Top Chef star Leah Cohen's recently opened Lower East side restaurant on Clinton Street that it is both intriguing and delicious. Complimented by a select team from the great Fatty Crab, Cohen starts with classic Thai and Filipino comfort dishes and adds her own flavor-exploding riffs. […]
Vegan Divas Bakery Serves Excellent Sweets on the Upper East Side
Frequent readers of the Glenwood blog will know we love bakeries. And so we approached with some trepidation the notion of an all-vegan bakery. If you're thinking, like we did, "Vegan doughnuts? Why bother?" then you've probably never tried the little beauties now being served in the cute new bakery/coffee-spot, Vegan Divas. Founded by the […]
Aquafit Chef Marcus Samuelsson Opens Restaurant at Lincoln Center
In his smart, highly entertaining memoir "Yes, Chef," the internationally renowned Marcus Samuelsson–who, at the age of 24, earned three stars from the Times as Executive Chef at Aquavit, and then went on to open the acclaimed, packed-nightly Red Rooster in Harlem, a Glenwood favorite–does two things especially well. First, he brings to life his […]
Dirty Bird To-Go: Best Fried Chicken in NYC Now in Tribeca
Downtown Glenwood residents, meet your new favorite take-out/quick-bite spot: Dirty Bird To-Go in Tribeca. Or, at a minimum, a new entry into your own personal top five. Dirty Bird To-Go has long been known for some of the best fried chicken in NYC at its West 14th Street location. In fact Matt Stone, he of considerable Book […]
All Good Things Tribeca Features Orwasher’s, NuNu Chocolates & More
The sign on the door still says "Mostly Open", but the news is excellent for Tribeca-area Glenwood residents and everyone else in this town who enjoys fresh, delicious food: All Good Things NYC, a year-round Tribeca market (with restaurant to come, hence the 'Mostly") opened last week on a quiet stretch of Franklin Street, instantly […]
DUMBO Restaurants like Governor Give a Reason to Head to Brooklyn
As usual, we tried out a lot of new restaurants all over town this past summer, and, as it turns out, possibly our best meal of the season (real summer, not calendar summer) came on practically the last day of the season, on a cobblestoned street in Brooklyn, at DUMBO’s Governor, which was opened in […]
