Food Adventuring Around NYC
There are these little cafeteria-type ethnic restaurants all throughout midtown. They’re one step up from those scary steam tables at the corner deli. But some of them turn out really delicious food. However. it’s a little daunting to try to figure out which are worth stopping in to and which are a week away from …
SADLY, A VOCE IS NOW CLOSED. The Uptown incarnation of A Voce opened late last year to lots of fanfare and good reviews. Since then, its buzz has seemed to fizzle and simmer. You don’t hear much about it anymore, sitting up there in the Time Warner Building with its beautiful views of Central Park. But …
Ice cream at a steakhouse is usually forgettable. It’s often consumed after a gut-busting meal and it’s possibly more painful to gobble up the dessert than it is pleasurable. But even still, the ice cream is rarely more than the usual vanilla or chocolate. And it’s almost never homemade. Quality Meats has never played by …
I’ll never forget on one of my first visits to New York touring NBC Studios and then walking through a strange underground mall. I remember high-end shops, fast moving foot traffic, and food courts. It was an exciting hybrid of New York urban life and my shopping mall rich South Florida adolescent. When I first …
New York is known for its small spaces. For lots and lots of money, you can get a tiny cupboard of an apartment. And if you have ingenuity and some design talent, you can figure out a way to squeeze out as much space as possible. That’s how skyscrapers eventually grew in this city. We …
My favorite issues of Time Out each year are the 100 Best Food and Drink issue and the Cheap Issue. It’s clear that I’m both a foodie and a Jew (a Jew-die?) So when they write articles about cheap food in the city, I am in heaven. The lunch special at Yakitori Totto, the semi-hidden (it’s …
SADLY, STAGE DELI IS NOW CLOSED. I don’t understand why delicatessens are so celebrity obsessed. It seems it’s a requirement to have a wall of celebrity photos hanging over you as you enjoy your corned beef and pastrami. I guess famous people love delis. Is that how they stay so skinny? Stage Deli, which is down …
SADLY, CARNEGIE DELI IS NOW CLOSED. Let’s talk about Woody Allen for a second. You could make a very convincing argument that he is the ultimate New Yorker. Forget Walt Whitman or Donald Trump. Woody was born in Brooklyn, his jazz ensemble plays at the Carlyle every week, and he made a film called Manhattan for …
When a man dressed in a costume or some traditional garb tries to hand me a restaurant menu in Midtown, I usually avert my eyes and try to make it past him without embarrassing either of us. Well, today I not only took the guy’s menu, I actually went up the stairs to try the …
Okay, so when it comes to Tarte Flambées, I am definitely a little bit jaded. For those uninitiated, a tarte flambée is an Alsatian flat bread with smoked bacon, softened onions, and créme fraîche. I feel like I’m at work. You see, at The Modern (where I work), our Chef Gabriel Kreuther is Alsatian and …
Unctuous. What a great word. And one that I don’t get to use very often. Although when we went to the fancy new seafood palace, Marea just off Central Park to try another list item, I found myself saying the word over and over again. The list item was number two on Time Out’s Top Ten …
SADLY, AUEROLE IS NOW CLOSED. This is getting too stressful. Two possible failures in a row! After the maple crusted versus maplecrest debacle, now I get to Auerole, the fancy schmancy Charlie Palmer restaurant which has recently relocated to the very strange location of 42nd Street, and find that the foie gras and quail terrine is …
We had an amazing time at Oceana, the recently relocated seafood palace close to the Theater District on 49th Street. We sat at the bar and the staff was incredibly accommodating and friendly. The seafood was all fresh and pretty inventive. I especially enjoyed a sausage stuffed seafood dish, where the chef ingeniously used a …
According to dictionary.com. “pizza” is defined as: –noun, a flat open-faced baked pie of Italian origin, consisting of a thin layer of bread dough, topped with tomato sauce and cheese, often garnished with anchovies, sausage slices, mushrooms, etc. So there we have it folks, an actual definition of one of our favorite foods. Now, I …
It’s so nice when food brings families together. And I always think of Sunday nights as being family night. Whether I came kicking and screaming to the dinner table (because I was about to beat Mega Man 3) or I was cooking for my parents, Sunday dinner was always family time. I still get that …