Food Adventuring Around NYC
Long before it was hip to eat from or operate a food truck, Jiannetto’s Pizza was serving up grandma-style pizza to the suits of Wall Street. Originally from Staten Island, this truck makes some of the crispest, lightest, freshest pizza in the entire city.
Come back every Wednesday for another funny, informative video documenting my inept food adventures. NYC Food Cart Tour is my exploration of the hard-working vendors feeding NYC’s population every day. The workers in the Financial District are very lucky because they have three locations of Shaheem Malik’s Biryani House cart to choose from. In addition …
SADLY, VERONICA’S KITCHEN IS NOW CLOSED. We start just about every one of our Financial District food cart tours at Veronica’s Kitchen. This is where Veronica Julien is preparing the best jerk chicken I’ve tasted in the entire city. She’s been doing it for almost 10 years and works harder each week than I do …
My search for the best falafel in New York continues…. There’s a wine trail in Napa, a bourbon trail in Tennessee, and a barbecue trail in Texas. Yet nobody ever talks about the great falafel trail in the Financial District. But they should! In the crowded business district at Manhattan’s southern edge, sit lots of …
My search for the best bagels in New York continues…. “It’s not a bagel!!” That’s what most of NY’s bagel connosieurs cried when Simit + Smith opened up in town. The new company has introduced the city to a round bready breakfast food with a hole in the middle. It sorta looks like a bagel, …
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 …
SADLY, LONG ISLAND BAGEL CAFE IS NOW CLOSED. If a bagel shop opened in this city calling itself “California Bagels” or “Philadelphia Bagels,” they couldn’t sensibly expect to stay in business for very long. New York City is the leading American city for bagels so it’s silly to try to hawk lesser bagels here. Nobody …
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. Eating out in NYC is exciting and mouthwatering, but if you’re not careful it’s a little too easy to develop gout, diabetes, or …
My search for the best falafel in New York continues…. SADLY, ALFANOOSE IS NOW CLOSED. Upon entering Alfanoose, I thought I’d get something you don’t usually get with falafel: table service. The large dining room is unusual for a falafel joint in NYC, tying into its old history of being traditionally a street food.
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 …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. I drank a Jamaican inspired beer from Long Island’s Blue Point Brewery at Ulysses’ Folk House, an Irish themed pub on Stone Street, the oldest paved street in the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Jamaican, American, Irish, Dutch. Whew! Talk about cultures colliding. I’ve …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. Who in their right mind would show up at a brewery and order a different brewery’s beer at the bar? It turns out I would. But let me explain. The brewery in question is technically located in Dublin and I was in Lower Manhattan. Fraunces Tavern, …
I’ve devoured Time Out’s 100 Best dishes and now, once again, I’ve been inspired to create my own list. These are the 100 dishes I have continued to think about since tasting them at some point in 2011. Look for another five dishes every few days. These are in no particular order. NUMBER 45: PUPUSAS …
My search for the best beer in New York continues…. SADLY, KEG NO. 229 IS NOW CLOSED. My life is laden with indecisiveness, so when places make it easier for me to not make a decision, I truly appreciate it. Keg No. 229 was both difficult and easy for me. I had a $2 off coupon …
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. Most people would throw in the towel right …
Two of my weakest subjects in school were history and geography. While I think both are fascinating (I love old movies and I love to study maps), I have a bit of ADD and I tend to lose interest very quickly. So I was baffled when I recently learned that Taiwan is a part of …
Believe me, I have no problem eating from food carts or trucks. In fact, as many of you know, I give a tour of food carts twice a week with a company called Urban Oyster. So I know the in’s and out’s of how they are regulated and I know they’re just as clean as …
If Time Out New York can do it, so can I. I’ve been inspired and satiated by Time Out’s 2009 Top 100 list and look forward to conquering their 2010 list very soon. But from now until the end of the year, I present my own Top 100 Dishes of the year in reverse order. …