The Meatball Shop in NYC: A New Lower East Side Restaurant
Point taken. If you're going to open a restaurant in this town with basically one thing on the menu, "meatballs" is a solid choice. The Meatball Shop in NYC, just opened in the heart of the party district on the Lower East Side, was packed with 20-somethings before 6:30 the other night, and was only […]

Corsino Cantina NYC: Italian Small Plates in the Meatpacking District
    Corsino Cantina NYC, specializing in Italian small plates, opened last October on the border between the elegant coziness of the West Village and the glitzy narcissism of the Meatpacking District in Manhattan. It is the latest attempt by Joe and Jason Denton, rulers of the 'ino and 'inoteca mini-empire, to bring, in Jason's words, "a […]

Xi’an Famous Foods in Manhattan: A Noodle House in Chinatown
  When cultish Flushing fave Xi’an Famous Foods opened an outpost here in Manhattan last month, food writers prestigious (Sam Sifton in the Times) and now (Yelpers galore) went a little nuts praising the hand-pulled noodles, the Liang Pi, the stewed lamb spine. So when we found ourselves walking through Chinatown on a bitter cold, […]

Guest Blog By Andrew Steinthal of ImmaculateInfatuation.com
NYC Website for Dining & Entertainment   Greetings good people of Glenwood, Steinthal here from NYC dining and entertainment site ImmaculateInfatuation.com. We break restaurants down by what we'd tell our friends they're "Perfect For" whether it be a First/Early In The Game Date, Chronic Brunch, Dinner With The Parents or a place with Action At […]

This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef: A Sandwich Restaurant in NYC
Grabbing a slice at Artichoke on East 14th Street in NYC can be a frustrating experience (long wait, nowhere to sit, indifferent attitude), but we do go there, and often, because the pizza is so outstanding: topped with fresh ingredients, baked to a nice char, always exploding with flavor. One bite into our slice (a […]

The City Bakery Hot Chocolate Festival NYC
  February means different things to different people: horrible freezingness, fun in the snow, Caribbean vacations, sometimes Leap Year. Us? The arrival of the shortest month of the year simply means we're going to be spending more time than ever at the incomparable City Bakery in NYC, drowning ourselves in the insanely rich and gloriously […]

Recette NYC: A New Restaurant in the West Village
  Not so long ago Jesse Schenker and Christina Lee–whose stellar resumes include stints at Gordon Ramsey and Per Se, respectively–were only whipping up their bold, inventive creations in a private supper club in Manhattan's East Harlem. It was fun and all, we heard, and undoubtedly delicious, but the setup was pretty low on the […]

Veloce Pizzeria NYC
Veloce Pizzeria first fired up its ovens last summer, the newest food-and-drink hangout from the Vespa-mascotted Veloce mini-empire. Usually the opening of just about any New York City pizza restaurant with any sort of ambition–especially a new East Village pizza place–is cause for an almost ridiculous amount of attention in this town, but with newcomers […]

The Breslin Bar and Dining Room
  We’d follow Iron Chef April Bloomfield and her Spotted Pig cohort Ken Friedman just about anywhere–the Spotted Pig’s Gnudi, even after all these years (almost six!), remains one of our absolute favorite, most crave-able dishes in town–so it was only a matter of time before we headed over to their new venture, The Breslin […]

Dos Toros Taqueria NYC
San-Francisco-Style Mexican Food & Burritos in NYC Dos Toros Taqueria: with the holiday season winding down and the New York City winter settling in for its long, grey, freezing haul, anything that can evoke the climes of California gets bonus points in our book (in our case, specifically, Mission Beach, and the Carne Asada at […]