Pies ‘n Thighs Brooklyn, NYC
Pies ‘n Thighs, Brooklyn’s cultishly-adored fried chicken joint, just went through a nearly two-year-long stretch of closure, moving, and rebuilding. When it finally re-opened about a month ago, Pies ‘n Thighs rookies could be forgiven for wondering what, exactly, they had been working on for so long. Pies ‘n Thighs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, still feels […]
Babbo NYC: Chef Mario Batali’s Flagship Restaurant
Chef Mario Batali's flagship restaurant Babbo NYC is as famous for its astonishing array of pastas (and for its Fennel Dusted Sweetbreads…and its Grilled Octopus…and its Olive Oil Gelato…and its…well, you get the idea) as it is notorious for the difficulty of getting a reservation. The solution, as we discovered just last weekend? Babbo's bar. […]
Ma Peche, aka Momofuku Midtown
We'd follow chefs David Chang, Christina Tosi and the rest of the Momofuku crew just about anywhere… even, as it turns out, to the lobby of a Midtown hotel. Yes, as we're sure you've heard by now, after opening FOUR game-changers in the East Village over the past six years–in order of appearance: Momofukus Noodle […]
Baohaus NYC: Taiwanese Street Food on the Lower East Side
Is there room for yet another cheap, all-hours place to grab a quick bite on the Lower East Side? If it serves up Taiwanese food as tasty, as original, as lovingly-prepared as the buns (and sides) that we had last week at newcomer Baohaus NYC, then the answer is most definitely yes. Not that David […]
Pulino’s NYC Bar and Pizzeria: Keith McNally Has Another Winner
Balthazar, Pastis, Schiller's, Morandi, Minetta Tavern. Odean. Cafe Luxemborg. Lucky Strike. Pravda. Over the past 30 years, Keith McNally has seduced and delighted and flat-out wowed this tough-to-please town again and again (and again), deftly blending spectacle and style with solid-to-outstanding food to build an empire that reads like a New York City restaurant hall […]
Hecho en Dumbo: Mexican food on Bowery
Hecho en Dumbo, the Brooklyn transplant specializing in contemporary, Mexico City-style food, opened earlier this month here on Bowery, joining Faustina, DBGB and Pulino's on a stretch that is rapidly becoming Manhattan's hottest restaurant row. We joined the crowds twice last week to see if this one-time outer-borough favorite could hold on to its down-to-earth […]
Bianca Restaurant NYC
Good news travels fast…. sometimes. Other times, apparently, it can take years to reach our ears, even, amazingly enough, when it's about excellent inexpensive pasta in one of our favorite destination neighborhoods! Take Bianca Restaurant NYC, for example. It's been about six years since chef Giancarlo Quadalti and his partner Roberta Riccioli, who have long […]
Recipe Restaurant on the Upper West Side
Recipe NYC is one of the great under-sung heroes of the recent restaurant renaissance on the Upper West Side. A homey, narrow room on a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan notorious for its mediocre kitchens, Recipe Restaurant NYC, open less than a year, takes fresh ingredients, some obvious talent, and a whole lot of […]
Faustina NYC: Italian food at the Cooper Square Hotel
We admit it: we're not huge fans of chef Scott Conant's much-loved Italian restaurant Scarpetta, in the Meatpacking District. Admittedly, this is based on a single dinner, eaten a year or so ago, but still, we were underwhelmed by the attitude, whelmed by the food, overwhelmed by the size of our check, and haven't returned […]
Ippudo NYC: A Noodle Bar in the East Village
If you missed the great East Village Manhattan Ramen Wars of the late aught years, well… you were probably doing something more important than eating hot noodles every night. But you should know that the battles were epic, as noodle bar after noodle bar would open, challenging and knocking down the old stalwarts, a new […]
Pies ‘n Thighs, Brooklyn’s cultishly-adored fried chicken joint, just went through a nearly two-year-long stretch of closure, moving, and rebuilding. When it finally re-opened about a month ago, Pies ‘n Thighs rookies could be forgiven for wondering what, exactly, they had been working on for so long. Pies ‘n Thighs in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, still feels […]
Babbo NYC: Chef Mario Batali’s Flagship Restaurant
Chef Mario Batali's flagship restaurant Babbo NYC is as famous for its astonishing array of pastas (and for its Fennel Dusted Sweetbreads…and its Grilled Octopus…and its Olive Oil Gelato…and its…well, you get the idea) as it is notorious for the difficulty of getting a reservation. The solution, as we discovered just last weekend? Babbo's bar. […]
Ma Peche, aka Momofuku Midtown
We'd follow chefs David Chang, Christina Tosi and the rest of the Momofuku crew just about anywhere… even, as it turns out, to the lobby of a Midtown hotel. Yes, as we're sure you've heard by now, after opening FOUR game-changers in the East Village over the past six years–in order of appearance: Momofukus Noodle […]
Baohaus NYC: Taiwanese Street Food on the Lower East Side
Is there room for yet another cheap, all-hours place to grab a quick bite on the Lower East Side? If it serves up Taiwanese food as tasty, as original, as lovingly-prepared as the buns (and sides) that we had last week at newcomer Baohaus NYC, then the answer is most definitely yes. Not that David […]
Pulino’s NYC Bar and Pizzeria: Keith McNally Has Another Winner
Balthazar, Pastis, Schiller's, Morandi, Minetta Tavern. Odean. Cafe Luxemborg. Lucky Strike. Pravda. Over the past 30 years, Keith McNally has seduced and delighted and flat-out wowed this tough-to-please town again and again (and again), deftly blending spectacle and style with solid-to-outstanding food to build an empire that reads like a New York City restaurant hall […]
Hecho en Dumbo: Mexican food on Bowery
Hecho en Dumbo, the Brooklyn transplant specializing in contemporary, Mexico City-style food, opened earlier this month here on Bowery, joining Faustina, DBGB and Pulino's on a stretch that is rapidly becoming Manhattan's hottest restaurant row. We joined the crowds twice last week to see if this one-time outer-borough favorite could hold on to its down-to-earth […]
Bianca Restaurant NYC
Good news travels fast…. sometimes. Other times, apparently, it can take years to reach our ears, even, amazingly enough, when it's about excellent inexpensive pasta in one of our favorite destination neighborhoods! Take Bianca Restaurant NYC, for example. It's been about six years since chef Giancarlo Quadalti and his partner Roberta Riccioli, who have long […]
Recipe Restaurant on the Upper West Side
Recipe NYC is one of the great under-sung heroes of the recent restaurant renaissance on the Upper West Side. A homey, narrow room on a stretch of Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan notorious for its mediocre kitchens, Recipe Restaurant NYC, open less than a year, takes fresh ingredients, some obvious talent, and a whole lot of […]
Faustina NYC: Italian food at the Cooper Square Hotel
We admit it: we're not huge fans of chef Scott Conant's much-loved Italian restaurant Scarpetta, in the Meatpacking District. Admittedly, this is based on a single dinner, eaten a year or so ago, but still, we were underwhelmed by the attitude, whelmed by the food, overwhelmed by the size of our check, and haven't returned […]
Ippudo NYC: A Noodle Bar in the East Village
If you missed the great East Village Manhattan Ramen Wars of the late aught years, well… you were probably doing something more important than eating hot noodles every night. But you should know that the battles were epic, as noodle bar after noodle bar would open, challenging and knocking down the old stalwarts, a new […]