Food Adventuring Around NYC
THE SPOT: When stepping into Martha’s Country Bakery in Williamsburg, it feels like it’s been there forever. And it sort of has. It’s an old school New York bakery (Greek-owned but you’d be excused in thinking it was Italian) whose owner’s family have been baking and selling these cookies and cakes for over 50 years …
THE SPOT: This 24 hour iconic doughnut shop has been on my radar for many years – not quite since 1964 when they opened, but close. It recently expanded to a second location near NYU, but the spot on 14th Street has always felt like a local dive. And inside it does feel like a …
THE SPOT: One Girl Cookies has been one of my favorite Brooklyn neighborhood spots for years and years occupying a sleepy side street in Cobble Hill and beloved by the community. When visiting this mom and pop (husband and wife, actually) business on my own or with tour groups, I mostly focus on their solid …
The Place: If it weren’t for the blackboard on the sidewalk or the intoxicating smells seeping out the door, you’d think Yanni’s Coffee was just a neighborhood third wave coffee shop. And you’d be right. I especially love how this is the one and only location. Yanni’s does not look to be trying to conquer …
THE SPOT: I love Partybus. This is a true local neighborhood bakery where Jacqueline, the owner and baker, is more often than not behind the counter and sweating in the kitchen. She started the business across the street at the Hester Street Fair from a bus her friends coined “the partybus.” The “party” in the …
It’s that time of year where the weather starts getting a bit chilly and we all come under attack from pumpkins – with or without spice. From doughnuts to pancakes to cream cheese, pumpkins are lurking around every corner in New York City and it seems like there’s no escape….
THE SPOT: If you’ve ever taken a train or a bus in or out of New York, you’ve encountered Zaro’s Family Bakery. These take-out spots are an iconic local bakery that started in the Bronx in 1927 and are now mostly found at Grand Central, Penn Station, and Port Authority Bus Terminal. They were once …
THE SPOT: One of the absolute best Italian bakeries in the entire city, this 4th generation run spot sits in the center of Arthur Avenue in The Bronx and puts out one incredible pastry and bread offering after another. You can’t go wrong with any of Madonia’s products from savory tarrali to mind-blowing white chocolate …
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 …
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 …
Orwashers is an institution in upper Manhattan. The bakery was opened on the Upper East Side back in 1916 by a Hungarian family. That was just a few years after Glaser’s opened in the same neighborhood and the black and white cookie was supposedly invented. So while Orwashers has changed ownership and probably wasn’t selling …
You might be thinking, “I’ve been to Breads Bakery in Union Square or Lincoln Center or Bryant Park and I love their babka but never saw a black and white cookie on their shelves.” And you would be correct. Because the only location of Breads Bakery that has their wacky version of the New York …
Jerry Seinfeld often gets credit for making the black and white cookie so famous, but of course, this iconic New York treat predates the 90’s sitcom by a lot. While I grew up eating them in South Florida (thanks to a New York heritage), they did indeed originate in New York. The question is whether …
I’m very excited to start another search for another iconic New York dish. This one has always been in the back of my mind, but now that I have a seven-year old who loves when I bring him home cookies, it’s a no brainer. I’ll officially announce my search for the best black and white …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City New York never changes. I would always discover some food place on a block I frequented often. It looked brand new and I had never seen it before but when I stopped in and asked how long …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City One of the things I miss most about exploring the streets of New York City, is just randomly walking by a food shop that just opened. I know the city pretty well so my eyes always …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Coffee and cookies. It’s not the immediate food combination that comes to mind, but it should be. Seriously, why don’t more people think to order a cookie with their coffee? I mean, scones and muffins are fair …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… I thought rusk was something created by this Japanese bakery, but after some research it turns out it is a thing that I somehow missed my whole life until this year. Uncle Tetsu, which is a cheesecake phenomenon in Japan, bakes full sized cakes …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Every year for the second to last Dish of the Week I go searching and scouring (read: eating) at the local bakeries for some seasonal holiday-themed treat. Last week, I was lucky enough to try this jelly doughnut marshmallow …