Food Adventuring Around NYC
For the third year in a row, I’m going to attempt to eat every single item on Time Out New York’s annual 100 Best Dishes list. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Let the gluttony continue… If you ask just about anybody where to get smoked fish in New York, the …
My search for the best bagels in New York continues…. When I walked by Zucker’s Bagels one night a few months back, I thought I had made a huge discovery. Based on the exterior, this looked like a classic bagel shop, yet I had never heard of it. Could it be brand new? Upon doing …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2017… As a kid, I was pretty averse to whitefish salad. As an adult, I realized how wrong I was. Or at the very least I had never tasted the stuff at Shelsky’s. The chunky meaty whitefish has an irresistible smokiness and creaminess. The fish …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2015… Maiden Lane is trying to demystify the stigmas of eating fish from a can or a tin. They have bars just like this one all over Portugal and Spain where you can make a three-course meal from preserved sardines, mussels, and octopus. I love …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2015… This little stand in the Essex Street Market gives the nearby Russ & Daughters a run for their money. Instead of focusing on this neighborhood’s Jewish history of preserving fish, Nordic Preserves is catering to the city’s Scandinavian community. You can get all your …
Greeks know how to cook octopus and Chef Michael Psilakis at Fishtag is no expception. His tender and richly-flavored smoked octopus dish is a stand-out right alongside fingerling potatoes, heatrs of palm, snow pea leaves, and a bright, sweet date and olive puree. Price: $14 FISHTAG 222 West 79th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue), Upper …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Places like Leland Eating and Drinking House make me yearn for the old days. In the before times, I’d often spend my evenings at buzzy chef-driven neighborhood restaurants in Brooklyn that turned out dish after dish of …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City If someone were to try to sell me on a salmon cake, I would imagine it would be somewhat similar to a crab cake, but of course using salmon in place of crab. I never would have …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I’m a pretty terrible Jew. While I was raised conservatively, Bar Mitzvah’ed, and all that, I have strayed from my roots. I’ve become oblivious to even the major holidays. Today is the first day of Rosh …
For the fourth year in a row, I present the 100 most exciting dishes I’ve consumed during my food adventures around the five boroughs. Look for another five dishes every few days. While an occupation as a fisherman is not in my future, I owe much of my enjoyment to those hard workers. I’ll devour …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, DASSARA RAMEN IS NOW CLOSED. On the Neighborhood Eats tour that I lead for Urban Oyster, we talk about the unique food ecosystem in the neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. The food businesses in this area collaborate …
Once again Time Out New York released their Top 100 Dishes of the year and once again, I’m going to eat my way through every one. And no price point or subway delay will stop me. In no particular order, here’s my take on their Top 100. Perhaps the biggest fear and stress I deal …
I grew up on Chinese food. Besides Italian, it was the only ethnic cuisine my conservative (on the food front, not politically) parents ever dared to let me try. I begged them to let me try sushi when I was younger, but their fear got the best of them. Interestingly enough, the two cuisines I’m …
Gertrude’s is the latest Brooklyn-centric restaurant with a focus on classic New York Jewish food. Of course, here it’s upgraded and refined so the prices are far from what you would have seen in the “good old days”. But I’ve more than accepted that that is the case nowadays and I understand why. Since Gertrude’s …
SADLY, SHERRY HERRING IS NOW CLOSED. I would think there are only a few places in the world where there would be lines out the door for the latest location of Sherry Herring. And although the afternoon I arrived was pretty quiet, I have to imagine they picked a very good location in the Upper West Side. …
Sam had never heard of the country Cameroon until we signed him up for an awesome soccer class with strong connections to the Central African country. Kids in Cleats offers soccer class by a Cameroonian soccer coach and also proceeds from the classes go to help children in Cameroon find their way our of poverty through education and sports. It’s …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, FREEK’S MILL IS NOW CLOSED. Sometimes I worry that this blog gets repetitive. Sure, I write about pizza, dumplings, and bagels over and over again. That’s the point. But I’m talking more about the Dish …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City It’s heartbreaking how many old school places continue to close in this city due to astronomically high rents and changing neighborhood clientele. So it warms my heart when a business that has been around for over …
Now that I’ve eaten my way through somebody else’s list (Time Out New York), I’m ready to compile my own 100 spectacular things I’ve tasted in 2012. Look for another five dishes every few days. NUMBER 55: HOT DOG at DOMINICK’S HOT DOG TRUCK I’ve spent the last few years on this site dedicated to …
My search for the best bagels in New York continues…. Matt Pomerantz must be a very modest guy. He owns three bagel shops with proper names claiming the bagels and not one of them is named Matt’s or Pomerantz’s. The very popular (and quite delicious) Murray’s Bagels is named for his father, Zucker is his …