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.
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City It always feels like the good stuff happens once you leave a place. I lived in Astoria for 12 years (not a day goes by that I don’t miss it) and now that I have left, …
My search for the best falafel in New York continues…. SADLY, UNIVERSITY PITA IS NOW CLOSED. Falafel has now become as ubiquitious as pizza in this city. You can find falafel on almost every corner and most of it gives the vegetarian dish a bad name. I’ve tried to focus my journey on the most popular …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Up until now, if I heard the name Lady M, I’d think of a Shakespearean villainess trying to wash the blood off her hands. Now I also think about a sleek cake shop and their iconic …
This year I decided to find some love on Valentine’s Day and I took out a personal ad for a date. The girl agreed to meet me at La Maison du Chocolat in Rockefeller Center for some love-inducing hot chocolate. My matchmaking scheme did not go according to plan… Special thanks: midtownlunch.com lamaisonduchocolat.us ultraclay.com
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Elizabeth Street has been flooded with Australian restaurants for quite a few years. Some might even call this stretch “Little Australia.” But up until recently, the street has been lacking the flavors of Australia’s neighbor New …
I bring my sense of food adventure with me on the road, searching for the most authentic, iconic, and delicious dishes of a different region… I never thought I’d say this, but if I didn’t live in New York City, I might move to Vermont. I’m sure my excitement and high from my recent trip …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Charlie Bird is a strange, but very cool restaurant. It’s both trendy and refined, loud and intimate, exclusive and welcoming. And it just happens to be one of the highest rated restaurants of last year.
My search for the best pizza in New York continues…. I’ve been to some of the most authentically Italian pizzerias in the city. Yet none of them ever rivaled the feeling I had at a tiny restaurant on the Upper East Side. San Matteo Pizza and Espresso Bar is a strange little spot. It doesn’t …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City As food bloggers, we always dream of discovering some place new to share with the world. With the media being what it is, it’s hard to be the first to write about and gush over an …
My search for the best falafel in New York continues…. A Bedouin tent is a convertible structure usually made of goat or camel hair that allows nomadic people to stay safely and comfortably in the desert. It’s also the name of a restaurant in the cozy neighborhood of Boerum Hill. As far as I know, …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Some might call me a barbecue snob. And I suppose they’d be right. I just have very high expectations for barbecue, having spent time in parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, and the mecca of American …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Everybody by now has heard about microbreweries. They’re the craft beer heroes coming to save us from the corporate commercial breweries in this country that have made our beer flat and bland for too long. But if you thought microbreweries were small, try checking out …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Normally, I try to be mindful of eating too many carbs. A sandwich is one thing, but double or triple carbs in one meal is only reserved for special occasions. But when the weather gets as …
SADLY, CRISP IS NOW CLOSED. Although falafel is iconic to many countries in the world (Egypt, Israel, Yemen, etc.), there are many that haven’t made it their own. Well, Crisp has decided to change all that. The mini-chain opened a few years back in New York and introduced the city to global falafel. Sure, you …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City The Black Watch cocktail isn’t listed on Attaboy’s menu because the unmarked cocktail bar doesn’t have a menu or even a regular roster of cocktails. What it does have are skilled bartenders who can whip up …
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. I purposefully don’t put out a list of the 10 best restaurants because it would be totally unfair for me to judge. Unlike …
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. It’s ironic that Japanese cuisine is my favorite because when I was younger, I tasted some dark roasty soup at the Japanese pavillion …
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. In the last few years, a brand new cuisine has been created that I (and most of NYC) like to refer to as …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Thanks to the response from my recent Christmas video, I got a request to make dumplings for Christmas Eve this year. That’s right, this year we didn’t go out for Chinese food, I cooked it. I …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, NOORMAN’S KIL IS NOW CLOSED. Most people assume that stouts start and end with Guinness. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. Stouts, while all dark and roasty, can range in flavor (and ingredients). Put the word oatmeal, coffee, milk, or oyster in front of …