Food Adventuring Around NYC
Back in 2000, Sasha Petraske opened up a very unusual bar. It was called Milk & Honey and in order to go there for drinks, you had to have a secret phone number, make a last minute reservation, then have the inside scoop to know exactly where the unmarked door is in the Lower East …
Well, here’s a special occasion where I can check another item off my list AND continue my search for NY’s best pizza. I was eventually going to make my way out to Salvatore of Soho in Staten Island to try their coal-oven style pizza, but after the clam pie appeared on the list, it happened …
Raw Shrimp? Seriously? Even in sushi restaurants, shrimp is generally served cooked and chilled. I had it served to me raw once in a sushi restaurant in midtown and since every other dish had been fresh, I closed my nose and ate the damn thing. So here I was faced with the problem once again. …
SADLY, MAYAHUEL IS NOW CLOSED. Tequila is one of those spirits I’ve been trying to get into lately. Besides margaritas, when I think of tequila, I think of one too many body shots at a college party. But I enjoy tasting my liquor rather than trying to get it down as fast as possible. So the …
I love New York! Where else can you find an entire bar or restaurant dedicated to a specific dish? Sure, we’ve all heard of pizzerias and taquerias but how often do you come across a cevicheria? Desnuda is a narrow bar in the East Village specializing in the citrus-marinated seafood dish. The only food this …
SADLY, KYO YA IS NOW CLOSED. I officially fell in love with Kyo Ya. It’s more refined than the izakayas (Japanese pubs that serve traditional bar food), but much more approachable and interesting than the big expensive Japanese restaurants (Megu and Nobu, I’m talking to you guys!) The second Kyo Ya dish on the list is …
SADLY, KYO YA IS NOW CLOSED. Let me just say up front that I love Japanese food. Which is weird because the one really bad food experience I remember from childhood was eating at the casual Japan restaurant at EPCOT. There was some brewed flavor (soy perhaps?) in their soup that really turned me off to …
I thought for New Year’s Eve I’d try to get as many of the drinks on my list as possible. And if I got wasted, it was all for a good cause. Well, I made it to a number of restaurants and had many drinks, but only two cocktails from the list were conquered that …
Most people think curry and they think of spicy Indian food or rich Thai dishes. But curry can refer to many different ethnic spiced dishes. And the words bratwurst, schnitzel, and pretzel that appear on Wechsler’s menu make it clear that we are not anywhere near Asia. No, Weschsler’s in the East Village serves German …
I love being able to cross off two list items with only one meal. Locanda Verde is one of a few restaurants that received two spots on Time Out’s list. Last year, Momofuko was the only place to hold that distinction. And where are you this year, David Chang? I mostly enjoyed the meal at …
The number one item on last year’s Time Out list was the porchetta sandwich at Porchetta. And it was well-deserving. Porchetta is a hole-in-the-wall spot that serves delicious pork sandwiches in the East Village. The word porchetta refers to an Italian boneless pork roast. At Porchetta, they use the loin, the belly, and lots of …
And the list nostalgia continues. I first discovered french dip sandwiches at T.G.I. Friday’s. And even though I’m not terribly proud of it, Friday’s was a huge part of my adolescence. It was in the same shopping center as the local mall so I spent many social hours being waited on by servers with flair. …
So this list keeps making me feel young again. First, fried chicken and now these little cookies known as snickerdoodles. Snickerdoodles are basically sugar cookies that have been rolled in or sprinkled with cinnamon. They’re not my favorite cookie (give me chocolate chip over anything else), but how can the name snickerdoodle not bring you …
My very first excursion on the Time Out Top 100 list was pretty easy. Since I’m still technically working on finding the best pizza in NY, I was relieved to see that there are five pizzerias featured. It’s always nice to kill two birds with one stone. And speaking of birds, the selection from Roberta’s …