Food Adventuring Around NYC
Brian Hoffman is a classically trained actor who is now a full-time tour guide, blogger, and food obsessive. He leads food and drink tours around New York City, which not only introduce tour-goers to delicious food, but gives them a historical context. He has written food articles for Gothamist and Midtown Lunch in addition to overseeing this blog and a few food video series, including Eat This, Locals Know, and Around the World in One City. His latest series is an international cooking show with his son which can be found on this site.
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. In Around the World in One City, I travel around the world and taste authentic dishes without ever leaving New York. I first fell in love with Peruvian food like most people do, through tasting moist, tender rotisserie chicken. But that is such a small part …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, ANTON’S DUMPLINGS IS NOW CLOSED. One night after a Cocktail Tour, I was walking back to my train on 6th Avenue, searching for a quick bite to eat when I discovered a little cart I had …
My search for the best hot dog in New York continues…. It’s quite a bold statement to say you invented the hot dog. But there may be some validity to the story that Feltman’s provides. Back in the year 1867, a German immigrant named Charles Feltman started a pushcart where he was the first to use a …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Tuna is a fish I usually associate with Japanese nigiri, packed and canned, or lightly seared at a cheesy Pan-Asian restaurant. But I recently discovered that when the belly is marinated and grilled, it is a …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I love when I get approached with a food dilemma. And it’s even more rewarding when I can solve it and then be involved in the eating part too. For Urban Adventures, we often put together …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Most people will be surprised that the city’s best burger might just be hiding at the counter of an ordinary looking old diner in the middle of well-to-do Gramercy. But that’s where it is. Forget your Shake …
SADLY, MELANI PIZZERIA IS NOW CLOSED. At some point I realized there was no way I’d be able to visit every single pizzeria in the city – although others have tried. So I’ve been more selective with my pizza reviews focusing on places that could actual fit the bill for the best pizza in the …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The Vendy Awards is my favorite day of the year. For the last eight years, I have done everything in my power to attend the festival dedicated to the best street food in the city. Not only is …
SADLY, MIKEY LIKES IT ICE CREAM IS NOW CLOSED. I feel pretty bad about this review. I don’t loke criticizing small businesses that are doing their best to invest in and embrace the community. I like Mikey Likes It. The owner was on premises and thanked me for my support. I also like the concept …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I’m doing something I’ve never done before on this blog. And that’s because I just came back from an adventure that was unlike anything I’ve ever done before in my life. For six weeks of the …
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. In Locals Know, I explore a new city through the tours of Urban Adventures. Of all the tours I lead, the one I have been giving more often than the others is the Tenements Tales and Tastes tour for Urban Adventures. …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Gabriel Kreuther is a pretty well-known name in the groups I run in. First off, he is an established and highly praised Alasatian chef in the New York food world (Michelin stars and everything). And secondly, …
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. There are old-school pizzerias and then there are old-school pizzerias. Scarr’s harkens back to a different time than the city’s oldest pizzeria Lombardi’s when Italian immigrants were cooking tomato pies in old coal ovens. Scarr’s is reminiscent of a time not that long ago (I …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City When you see the word cake on a brunch menu, odds are it is off-limits for those practicing a gluten-free diet. I imagine celiacs dream of pancakes every Sunday morning. Well, hallelujah, there is an option …
My search for the best hot dog in New York continues…. Smorgasburg completely overwhelms me. I often stop by at the weekly Brooklyn food festival for a quick cheap bite before one of my tours. But it’s never quick and never cheap. It takes me a long time to navigate the crowds and find something interesting …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, GREAT NORTHERN FOOD HALL IS NOW CLOSED. There have been a lot of fancy, trendy food halls that have opened in New York in the last few years. Most are just big spaces with a …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City For years I stopped eating potato chips at home and started eating vegetable chips, convincing myself that fried slivers of carrots and beets were somehow healthier. I like to fool myself like that. I’ve moved past …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, BRUNO IS NOW CLOSED. I love when a restaurant comes along and totally reconstructs something that we are all too familiar with. People deconstruct macaroni and cheese, s’mores, and steak tartare all the time. But I was …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City SADLY, NAM NAM IS NOW CLOSED. Nam Nam in Williamsburg doesn’t really feel like a restaurant. There is pretty much zero atmosphere, unless you count the bare bones kitchen with some makeshift places to sit. It’s …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Breakfast sandwiches were one of the hottest dishes a few years ago. Every restaurant was doing them (as long as they were open for breakfast, of course). But now we’re so immersed in Instagram-friendly food that …