June 4, 2012

Restaurants on the Upper East Side: The Best Restaurants in NYC

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Top Picks for Dining on the Upper East Side We all know just how difficult it can be to find that special spot in New York City that keeps you coming back time and time again. We’ve been lucky enough to find many spots while dining in NYC that we would gladly return to. We’ve […]

May 18, 2012

Dragonfly NYC Brings Asian Food to the Upper East Side

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At first glance, Dragonfly New York Asia, which opened about a month ago in the old Arriba Arriba spot right near The Marlowe on the Upper East Side, looks like a million other places in the neighborhood, some of which are fine, a few of which are quite good, many of which are just plain […]

April 9, 2012

BareBurger: Organic Bare Burger Meat Deliciously Joins the Upper East Side

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BareBurger is a mini-chain worth rooting for. The newest outpost of this casual eatery opened recently on the Upper East Side, bringing the total number of BareBurgers in NYC up to an impressive eight, with a ninth soon to come in Queens. And from what we've witnessed so far (we've dined in three), food-wise, crowd-wise, […]

March 14, 2012

JBird Cocktails on Upper East Side Named Best Uptown Bar

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Upper Manhattanites: your Upper East Side neighborhood cocktail bar just got a HUGE upgrade. At the end of January, JBird Cocktails relocated up here from a “secret” spot in Midtown, bringing serious cocktail culture to a seemingly random stretch of 75th Street. Why did the Upper East Side get so lucky? The motivation, turns out, is partially […]

March 2, 2012

New(ish) Upper East Side Stores: Sprout NYC and Soft Serve Fruit Co.

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For Upper East Side Glenwood residents, two new stores well worth knowing about–one, Sprout, is a lovely children's boutique; the other, Soft Serve Fruit Co., serves up unique frozen treats–have opened up in the past few months on Third Avenue. Coincidentally, Sprout NYC and Soft Serve Fruit are right next door to each other between […]

December 19, 2011

Dos Toros Taqueria & Toloache: NYC’s new Upper East Side Mexican Spot

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Two of our favorite Mexican spots in New York City, Toloache and Dos Toros–both very different; both very good–opened up new locations on the Upper East Side this fall, and we couldn’t be more excited about having our periodic taco cravings so easily satisfied. Sure, there have been several ok Upper East Side Mexican restaurant […]

November 25, 2011

A Vegetarian Restaurant in NYC: Green Bean Cafe on the Upper East Side

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As regular readers of our restaurant reviews are undoubtedly aware, we’re not vegans, or vegetarians, preferring an omnivoric approach to our eating. That said, we love any sort of food that tastes good, so when several of our Upper East Side friends recommended the NYC vegetarian restaurant Green Bean Cafe (they have lots of strictly […]

October 19, 2011

New Upper East Side Fairway Supermarket on 86th Street

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We cruised through the new Fairway Market grocery store the other night, and it is a beautiful sight to behold in Upper East Side Manhattan on 86th Street.

October 12, 2011

Le Moulin a Cafe: casual French Food on the Upper East Side

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Le Moulin a Cafe: a new neighborhood spot with delicious French food including desserts, coffee and salads on New York's Upper East side near Glenwood's historic Pavillion.

September 20, 2011

Maison Ladurée New York: The Beloved Parisian Macaron Shop, Now On Madison Avenue

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The normally placid climes of the Upper East Side were thrown into a frenzy a couple of weeks ago with the opening of  the cultishly adored Parisian baker Maison Ladurée, right in the heart of Madison Avenue shopping territory. The lines were out the door and down the block; film crews and the paparazzi were […]