Food Adventuring Around NYC
Somehow along the way, mushrooms became my absolute favorite food. Their earthy woodsy umami flavors won me over and at this point, if a restaurant has fungi on the menu, I’m ordering it. But it becomes much more difficult for me when everything on the menu is a mushroom. That is both the curse and …
I’ve been trying to eat at Sofreh for years now. Every time we have plans to go to Barclays Center or BAM, it’s the first place I try to score a reservation. Somehow it’s nearly impossible to get into this hot Persian restaurant – even after it’s been open for 5 years. Thankfully, it got …
It seems like every other week I’m documenting either a Thai restaurant or a mushroom dish. I tend to play favorites. Well, this week I’m bringing those favorites together. Bangkok Supper Club is one of the more difficult reservations to get. It’s definitely possible but takes a bit of panning and late night Resy stalking. …
Perhaps Central Asian food is the next big thing? After Farida, Tengri Tagh is the second restaurant from this region in Manhattan that I’m showcasing this year. This food has been prevalent in parts of Queens and deep in southern Brooklyn, but the fact that you can now find it in both major business districts …
I know he works food magic, but I was amazed that Wylie Dufresne read my mind when composing the menu for his new pizzeria. Stretch Pizza, which feels like a modern somewhat high-end pizza restaurant, is nestled in the Flatiron District, pretty adjacent to the sceney Nomad area. As expected from the man who truly …
In their old space, I think I may have worked my way through Superiority Burger’s menu of inventive vegetarian fast food. I’m a bit ashamed that I hadn’t been able to visit them in their new location until now. This spring, they came back in a much larger space (with wait staff) in an old …
A Greek diner is all too common around the tri-state area. But a modern hipster Greek diner? That is something different. Baby Blues Luncheonette is a very cool local Williamsburg hang-out that opened in 2022 and has been a super fun hangout, especially for breakfast. I found the prices a bit high, but the food …
My yearly resolution for some time now has been to eat less meat. I’m not ready to go full vegan (but wouldn’t be surprised if I find myself there in the future), yet I am eager and more than willing to try as many of the plant-based New York food businesses as possible. I recently …
We just returned from a huge odyssey to Greece. When I say odyssey it’s because to get to Crete (where we spent most of our time), we flew to London, caught a second flight to Santorini, where we spent one night, before taking a delayed ferry to Heraklion. But Odysseus didn’t get an extra night …
It’s hard when visiting Arthur Avenue not to order a red sauce classic – maybe eggplant parmigiana or linguini con vongole or, of course, lasagna. But on my last visit I was craving something a bit different and I knew I’d find it at Zero Otto Nove. This beautiful Salerno-inspired restaurant specializes in wood-fired pizza …
In the last few years, there are lots of new little cafés in the city that give the sense and vibe of Mexico City. It seems like this is a new trend or perhaps I just started noticing them now that I’ve had the pleasure of visiting CDMX shortly before the pandemic. Café Miguel is …
This corner space in Fort Greene right outside the subway space is prime real estate. Pretty awesome and amazing that it now hosts its second hip vegan fast food chain. I do miss Broccoli Bar quite a bit, but no doubt the Atlanta-based Slutty Vegan has garnered more of a cult following with Tik Tok …
I guess I’m going through a potato thing lately. I didn’t come to Double Yolk at the new Tin Building by Jean-Georges for a hash brown, but I left licking my lips not due to the decent egg sandwich or the historic environment, but because of a potato log that was out of this world. …
Since the beginning of this journey, we have always made a dish for dinner from each country. We may have incorporated a drink or a dessert here and there, but it’s always been dinner. This week will be a little different. We’re waking up early and getting the day started with a warming breakfast from …
Sam had never heard of the country Cameroon until we signed him up for an awesome soccer class with strong connections to the Central African country. Kids in Cleats offers soccer class by a Cameroonian soccer coach and also proceeds from the classes go to help children in Cameroon find their way our of poverty through education and sports. It’s …
If you had told me we would be making three vegetarian dishes from Bulgaria, I would have told you that you were thinking of the wrong country. I don’t know a lot about Bulgarian cuisine but I knew that its diet like much of the Balkans consisted of meat. Yet this international cooking adventure continues to surprise …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City I am always excited by dishes that make you think you’re getting one thing but then when you taste it or learn more about it, you find out you’re getting something else entirely. Wau is a …
I’m counting down the 100 best dishes I tasted in 2019… The last time I put out an end of year list of best dishes, it was 2019 and the world looked very different. Not only were we not yet in the midst of a never ending pandemic, but the way I ate at restaurants …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City Outside of Korean corn dogs, Oaxacan food and housemade masa was maybe the hottest trend this year in NYC. In the old days, you’d have to head out to Elmhurst to find a restaurant that was …
Every week, I document another dish that impressed and satiated me during my food adventures around New York City In theater school many moons ago, my friend and I were doing a scene from Of Mice and Men that required us to eat beans out of a can. It was possibly the most difficult acting …