Taverna Kyclades: In Search of the Best Greek Restaurant in New York City
Dishin’ It with Alexis: Greek Food Done Right Here in NYC When I traveled to Greece during my junior year of college, I realized my zeal for Greek cuisine. Before that journey around Europe, I didn’t give much thought to feta nor olives, two common elements in many Greek dishes. Exploring the corridors and tucked […]
A Pair of East Village Restaurants: The Cardinal and Georgia’s Eastside BBQ
Say you’re hanging out in the East Village, or on the Lower East Side, or maybe seeing a movie at Sunshine Cinema on Houston, and a craving for BBQ hits. You know: ribs, chicken, and pulled pork; collards, baked beans, biscuits… the whole thing. For a few years now we’ve relied on the consistently good […]
West Village Restaurant Red Farm: Tasty and Fun Dim Sum
It was about mid-August when former Chinatown Brasserie chef Joe Ng and “Chinese restaurant expert” Ed Schoenfeld finally opened Red Farm, their long-anticipated dim sum spot in the West Village on Hudson Street… and even during summer’s doggiest of days, the crowds have been turning the homey space into a party. Now that fall’s in […]
Chef Seamus Mullen Presents Spanish Tapas to NYC With Tertulia
Looks like Chef Seamus Mullen has another hit on his hands with Tertulia. Five years ago Mullen brought his genius for preparing and plating authentic-feeling Spanish tapas to Manhattan with Boqueria, an acclaimed, always-packed restaurant in the Flatiron District. That eatery spawned a tapas restaurant offshoot in Soho and at least a dozen imitators. Seamus […]
Best Brooklyn Restaurants: Roberta’s Pizza
Roberta's might just be our new favorite restaurant. Not that we're claiming to have discovered the place: Roberta's restaurant in Brooklyn has been wowing the world with their amazing pizzas and delicious dishes since the beginning of 2008, and if you go to Roberta's restaurant today, in prime time, the wait for a table can […]
Tacombi at Fonda Nolita
The somewhat awkwardly-named Tacombi at Fonda Nolita is, above all else, one of those rare super-gimmicky spots that totally works. Set amongst the precious boutiques and beautiful-people cafes of Elizabeth Street in a poured-concrete garage, Tacombi at Fonda Nolita is a (relatively) cheap taco stand that does everything it can to evoke the owners' other […]
Beecher’s Cheese: Handmade Cheese New York
Note to New York City cheese lovers: your cheese-eating options just increased by a pretty huge "one." Beecher's Handmade Cheese, a Seattle-based cheese-maker and -monger, opened up a three-level factory / cafe / shop / restaurant-and-bar a few weeks ago, right in the heart of Manhattan's Flatiron District, in a lovely landmark building on the […]
Best Ice Cream in NYC: L’Arte Del Gelato, Il Laboratorio del Gelato and more!
We eat lots of ice cream all throughout the year–at least one bowl each day, in fact–so summer's not an especially frozen-treatish time for us. But there have been a bunch of new NYC ice cream parlors and gelato stands opening up recently, so as we head into high summer, we figured it was as […]
Cocoron Soba Noodles: Best Noodles on Delancey Street New York
Soba has never captured the passions of New York City's noodle-loving masses the way, say, ramen exploded in the mid-aughts and beyond (have you tried to stop by the excellent Ippudo for a meal anywhere close to dinnertime, even after all these years? Don't bother, unless you don't mind waiting an hour…). Cocoron Soba, a […]
Caffe Falai: Best Restaurants NYC Italian between Soho and Nolita
It's been almost four years now since Caffe Falai opened on Lafayette Street, reaching up from Chef Iacopo Falai flagship Falai proper on Clinton, and we've been fans of Caffe Falai's simple, fresh Italian dishes since week one. Then and now, Caffe Falai has been a favorite salad-and-pasta spot in this neighborhood, sitting conveniently on […]
Dishin’ It with Alexis: Greek Food Done Right Here in NYC When I traveled to Greece during my junior year of college, I realized my zeal for Greek cuisine. Before that journey around Europe, I didn’t give much thought to feta nor olives, two common elements in many Greek dishes. Exploring the corridors and tucked […]
A Pair of East Village Restaurants: The Cardinal and Georgia’s Eastside BBQ
Say you’re hanging out in the East Village, or on the Lower East Side, or maybe seeing a movie at Sunshine Cinema on Houston, and a craving for BBQ hits. You know: ribs, chicken, and pulled pork; collards, baked beans, biscuits… the whole thing. For a few years now we’ve relied on the consistently good […]
West Village Restaurant Red Farm: Tasty and Fun Dim Sum
It was about mid-August when former Chinatown Brasserie chef Joe Ng and “Chinese restaurant expert” Ed Schoenfeld finally opened Red Farm, their long-anticipated dim sum spot in the West Village on Hudson Street… and even during summer’s doggiest of days, the crowds have been turning the homey space into a party. Now that fall’s in […]
Chef Seamus Mullen Presents Spanish Tapas to NYC With Tertulia
Looks like Chef Seamus Mullen has another hit on his hands with Tertulia. Five years ago Mullen brought his genius for preparing and plating authentic-feeling Spanish tapas to Manhattan with Boqueria, an acclaimed, always-packed restaurant in the Flatiron District. That eatery spawned a tapas restaurant offshoot in Soho and at least a dozen imitators. Seamus […]
Best Brooklyn Restaurants: Roberta’s Pizza
Roberta's might just be our new favorite restaurant. Not that we're claiming to have discovered the place: Roberta's restaurant in Brooklyn has been wowing the world with their amazing pizzas and delicious dishes since the beginning of 2008, and if you go to Roberta's restaurant today, in prime time, the wait for a table can […]
Tacombi at Fonda Nolita
The somewhat awkwardly-named Tacombi at Fonda Nolita is, above all else, one of those rare super-gimmicky spots that totally works. Set amongst the precious boutiques and beautiful-people cafes of Elizabeth Street in a poured-concrete garage, Tacombi at Fonda Nolita is a (relatively) cheap taco stand that does everything it can to evoke the owners' other […]
Beecher’s Cheese: Handmade Cheese New York
Note to New York City cheese lovers: your cheese-eating options just increased by a pretty huge "one." Beecher's Handmade Cheese, a Seattle-based cheese-maker and -monger, opened up a three-level factory / cafe / shop / restaurant-and-bar a few weeks ago, right in the heart of Manhattan's Flatiron District, in a lovely landmark building on the […]
Best Ice Cream in NYC: L’Arte Del Gelato, Il Laboratorio del Gelato and more!
We eat lots of ice cream all throughout the year–at least one bowl each day, in fact–so summer's not an especially frozen-treatish time for us. But there have been a bunch of new NYC ice cream parlors and gelato stands opening up recently, so as we head into high summer, we figured it was as […]
Cocoron Soba Noodles: Best Noodles on Delancey Street New York
Soba has never captured the passions of New York City's noodle-loving masses the way, say, ramen exploded in the mid-aughts and beyond (have you tried to stop by the excellent Ippudo for a meal anywhere close to dinnertime, even after all these years? Don't bother, unless you don't mind waiting an hour…). Cocoron Soba, a […]
Caffe Falai: Best Restaurants NYC Italian between Soho and Nolita
It's been almost four years now since Caffe Falai opened on Lafayette Street, reaching up from Chef Iacopo Falai flagship Falai proper on Clinton, and we've been fans of Caffe Falai's simple, fresh Italian dishes since week one. Then and now, Caffe Falai has been a favorite salad-and-pasta spot in this neighborhood, sitting conveniently on […]