Food Adventuring Around NYC
The buzz started when Nate Skid started popping up his new pizza business at local breweries. I had heard about Nate’s and figured one day I would actually give it a try. Amazingly, I was wondering down Atlantic Avenue after a Brooklyn food tour and lo and behold, Nate’s had permanently popped up in the …
THE SPOT: On a corner between Soho, Tribeca, and Chinatown, this is the first Manhattan location of Lucia Pizza which has been operating on Avenue X in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn for over 4 decades. The newest generation of owners seem to have felt it was time to expand and play with the big boys in …
THE PLACE: I was ready to hate Bad Roman and write it off as a not serious restaurant that is all social media hype. It is definitely some of that, but it was better than I expected. This was our best option for a special dinner out before a show at Lincoln Center considering we …
THE PLACE: Just as Sweetgreen was once a unique and delicious entry to the NYC lunch scene, ThisBowl has taken the healthy bowl-obsessed contingent by storm. ThisBowl is an Australian chain (called Fish Bowl down under) and my guess is they are hoping to pull a Sweetgreen here. After garnering huge lines in Noho, a …
It does seem like nowadays the best place to get a black and white cookie is not at a German bakery, but rather at a Jewish appetizing shop. The exciting Simply Nova tries to do it all when it comes to New York Jewish food from smoked salmon to pastrami sandwiches and, of course, black …
THE PLACE: In a section of Long Island City that seems to be turning into a little Asia of sorts (thanks to lots of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese restaurants), Nai Brother sits on an unassuming corner. It’s one of two New York City locations of a Sichuan restaurant chain specializing in a unique dish. The …
Tompkins Square Bagels has only been open since 2011 but it has become as big and iconic of a player in the New York bagel scene as Ess-a-Bagel or the now closed Absolute. It took Alphabet City by storm (an area that was in need of a fresh bagel shop) and has since expanded to …
THE PLACE: Once I arrived to the sparse, but sleek new Park Slope bakery Miolin, I realized I used to hang out at this space many moons ago when it was a wonderful Austrian restaurant called Café Steinhof. The times have certainly changed and now this neighborhood storefront tempts you with the intoxicating smells of …
Bakeries open all the time in this city. It seems everybody is taking the time to let their dough rise and laminate their croissants (and stuff them with all sorts of colorful fruits and nuts). It’s inspired me to burst into song with this parody of Dua Lipa’s hit song Levitating. I present Leavening….
THE PLACE: Not one of the smash burger places that gets all the hype in NYC, Lovely’s Old Fashioned has been sitting under-the-radar in Hell’s Kitchen for the last year or so. The old-fashioned name and feel, along with a lack of tables (only a lunch counter overlooking the griddle), truly gives a sense that …
It’s embarrassing that I never ate at Frankel’s before now. They’ve been opened in that narrow corner between Williamsburg and Greenpoint since 2016. And they name check lots of the iconic NYC dishes I search for on this blog: pastrami, bagels, smoked salmon, hot dogs. Perhaps the overwhelming number of New York-Jewish specialities has been …
THE PLACE: One of the newer speakeasies in the city, Paradise Lost is a super fun new tiki bar that has become a little secret among local bartenders. A (mostly) unmarked door that requires a hostess to buzz you in, reveals a kitschy transportive hallway leading to a “tropical hellscape” that is as fun and …
I’m counting down the 10 best dishes I tasted in 2024… As I put together my list of the ten best dishes I tried in NYC, I realized just why I love this city. I didn’t purposely curated this list to be diverse in terms of neighborhood, cuisine, or price point. It just ended up …
I’m counting down the 10 best dishes I tasted in 2024… As I put together my list of the ten best dishes I tried in NYC, I realized just why I love this city. I didn’t purposely curated this list to be diverse in terms of neighborhood, cuisine, or price point. It just ended up …
I’ve been sitting on this incredible dish for a few weeks – partly because others have come up that are a bit more seasonal. But I realized this needs to get mentioned before the year is up (you might just find it on my Top Ten) and also I think the symbolism of writing about …
This is not a new revelation but there really is so much great pizza in New York. And like most things, it seems everybody talks about a handful of really hot spots, and overlook a number of hidden gems that are just as worthy but almost never get mentioned. Potenza is not a name that …
Some might say everything is better on a stick. Kababs, yakitori, Corn dogs? Most don’t think of candied fruit, but it’s pretty brilliant. I was a skeptic at first (does fruit really need to be covered in sugar), but I gave in to the viral appeal and I’m pleased I did. Tanghulu are a traditional …
I love Rocco’s – I really do. They are a truly authentic, beloved Italian pasticceria in the middle of touristy Greenwich Village. Years ago I wrote about their stellar cannoli, and I still bring tour groups here regularly. Along with their rainbow cookies, pignolis, and napoleons, I also would get a regular glimpse of their …
There are certain ingredients that come up very often on this blog. Mushrooms are impossible for me to resist and I almost always include a dish from all of my Thai meals in the city. But this is the first time where sweet potatoes have played the starring role two weeks in a row. Last …
PICKLE CULTURE IS ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE COLUMBUS CIRCLE HOLIDAY MARKET THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2024. I didn’t realize pickles were such a holiday market thing, but we now have at least our second pickle stand at the local Holiday Markets around the city. Years ago, I discovered Pickle Me Pete in Bryant Park and upon …
