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 […]
Burger & Barrel NYC Winepub: Brand New in Soho
We stopped by the just-opened Burger & Barrel NYC yesterday evening, fingers crossed, hopes high, appetites eager for meat. Located on Houston Street diagonally across from the Angelika Theater, Burger & Barrel is the latest from the team behind the high(ish)-end Soho standbys Lure Fishbar and Mercer Kitchen, as well as, in one configuration or another, […]
Chef Michael White: New Rustic Italian at Osteria Morini
With Osteria Morini, a brand new rustic Italian restaurant on Lafayette Street in Soho, Chef Michael White pulls off the exceedingly difficult but enormously appealing trick of combining the best of all possible restaurant worlds. The food here–all rich and meaty, from Northern Italy's Emilia-Romagna region–is excellent, worthy of a true destination restaurant; while the rustic decor […]
Restaurant i NYC
No question, Restaurant i in NYC has what it takes to get your attention, design-wise, even in the increasingly hyped-up Flatiron District. Yes, that's a giant rhino head made from rubber tires in Restaurant i's "foyer", complete with artist catalog on nearby pedestal. Yes, the complicated ceiling slowly changes colors, bathing the grass window boxes between […]
Colicchio and Sons NYC: An Elegant Tap Room in the Meatpacking District
Colicchio and Sons Tap Room in NYC is a restaurant for grownups, in a neighborhood (the Meatpacking District) not known for understated elegance, in a time when mid-priced New York City dining seems dominated by pizza, small plates, fried chicken, and pork buns. Not that we don't adore those dishes when done well–burgers, too; also, […]
Peels NYC restaurant, new on the Bowery
Peels NYC is the spanking-new restaurant from that hipster royal duo Taavo Somer and William Tigertt, who had an instant hit a few years ago with their “secret” restaurant Freemans, located at the back of an (understandably) little-traveled, dead-end alley. But while the staffers at Peels restaurant resemble their Freemans fore bearers–all t-shirted, tattooed, and […]
Mario Batali Restaurant Opens: Eataly NYC
Mario Batali's restaurant Eataly NYC is the mega-star chef's brand new, insanely huge (36,500 square feet!), and, at this point, crazy-crowded Italian high-end restaurant / wood-fired pizzeria / coffee shop / grocery store / gelateria / chocolateria / panini spot / raw bar / bakery / outdoor beer garden (coming soon!) / salumi wine bar […]
Olio Pizza NYC
One look at Olio Pizza e Piu and it's easy to see why this West Village newcomer was something of an instant hit this summer. With its wide-open frontage and double row of outside tables, located just off a bustling stretch of Sixth Avenue, Olio Pizza NYC is close enough to the throngs to feel […]
M. Wells Restaurant in Long Island City
File under: the dinner we're most excited about eating in October. When the diner-looking-but-not-diner-tasting M. Wells opened in Long Island City early this summer, anyone who's ever been to Montreal's legendary restaurant Au Pied de Cochin–and we are fortunate enough to include ourselves in that crowd–immediately booked tickets on the 7 train. But M. Wells […]
Frankies Spuntino Restaurants: 457 (on Court Street) and 17 (on Clinton)
The Frankies are the charming, talented, unashamedly hippie-y (down to their love of fine weed and the Grateful Dead) chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. The Spuntinos are the "little snacks" they've made famous, first in Brooklyn, in Carroll Gardens, a few blocks from the F train, then on the Lower East Side, on Clinton […]
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 […]
Burger & Barrel NYC Winepub: Brand New in Soho
We stopped by the just-opened Burger & Barrel NYC yesterday evening, fingers crossed, hopes high, appetites eager for meat. Located on Houston Street diagonally across from the Angelika Theater, Burger & Barrel is the latest from the team behind the high(ish)-end Soho standbys Lure Fishbar and Mercer Kitchen, as well as, in one configuration or another, […]
Chef Michael White: New Rustic Italian at Osteria Morini
With Osteria Morini, a brand new rustic Italian restaurant on Lafayette Street in Soho, Chef Michael White pulls off the exceedingly difficult but enormously appealing trick of combining the best of all possible restaurant worlds. The food here–all rich and meaty, from Northern Italy's Emilia-Romagna region–is excellent, worthy of a true destination restaurant; while the rustic decor […]
Restaurant i NYC
No question, Restaurant i in NYC has what it takes to get your attention, design-wise, even in the increasingly hyped-up Flatiron District. Yes, that's a giant rhino head made from rubber tires in Restaurant i's "foyer", complete with artist catalog on nearby pedestal. Yes, the complicated ceiling slowly changes colors, bathing the grass window boxes between […]
Colicchio and Sons NYC: An Elegant Tap Room in the Meatpacking District
Colicchio and Sons Tap Room in NYC is a restaurant for grownups, in a neighborhood (the Meatpacking District) not known for understated elegance, in a time when mid-priced New York City dining seems dominated by pizza, small plates, fried chicken, and pork buns. Not that we don't adore those dishes when done well–burgers, too; also, […]
Peels NYC restaurant, new on the Bowery
Peels NYC is the spanking-new restaurant from that hipster royal duo Taavo Somer and William Tigertt, who had an instant hit a few years ago with their “secret” restaurant Freemans, located at the back of an (understandably) little-traveled, dead-end alley. But while the staffers at Peels restaurant resemble their Freemans fore bearers–all t-shirted, tattooed, and […]
Mario Batali Restaurant Opens: Eataly NYC
Mario Batali's restaurant Eataly NYC is the mega-star chef's brand new, insanely huge (36,500 square feet!), and, at this point, crazy-crowded Italian high-end restaurant / wood-fired pizzeria / coffee shop / grocery store / gelateria / chocolateria / panini spot / raw bar / bakery / outdoor beer garden (coming soon!) / salumi wine bar […]
Olio Pizza NYC
One look at Olio Pizza e Piu and it's easy to see why this West Village newcomer was something of an instant hit this summer. With its wide-open frontage and double row of outside tables, located just off a bustling stretch of Sixth Avenue, Olio Pizza NYC is close enough to the throngs to feel […]
M. Wells Restaurant in Long Island City
File under: the dinner we're most excited about eating in October. When the diner-looking-but-not-diner-tasting M. Wells opened in Long Island City early this summer, anyone who's ever been to Montreal's legendary restaurant Au Pied de Cochin–and we are fortunate enough to include ourselves in that crowd–immediately booked tickets on the 7 train. But M. Wells […]
Frankies Spuntino Restaurants: 457 (on Court Street) and 17 (on Clinton)
The Frankies are the charming, talented, unashamedly hippie-y (down to their love of fine weed and the Grateful Dead) chefs Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. The Spuntinos are the "little snacks" they've made famous, first in Brooklyn, in Carroll Gardens, a few blocks from the F train, then on the Lower East Side, on Clinton […]