Email Author Robert Sietsema

Awards

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published June 23, 2010

  "An Open Letter to Josh Ozersky"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2010

  "An Open Letter to Josh Ozersky"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 1, 2010

  "May We Interest You in Some Egg Fetus?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 8, 2010

  "Siam I Am"

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2013 Stories by Robert Sietsema

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  Grading the New Sushi Bar at Lobster Place in Chelsea Market

  published May 02, 2013

  Lobster Place's uni (sea urchin) was breezy and briny, and got a grade of A-. As part of the current evolution of Chelsea Market, old tenants are grabbing more space and revamping their premises to ... More >>

• Health Department Smacks Sarita's Mac and Cheese

  published May 01, 2013

  One of the two storefronts of Sarita's, formerly known as S'Mac, with its gate pulled partway down. Now known as Sarita's Mac and Cheese, the restaurant formerly known as S'mac - which has two non-a... More >>

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  If You Play Your Cards Right, You Can Have a Great Meal at Full House

  published May 01, 2013

  Vegetarian Mock Duck - Made of tofu skin tightly rolled up with minced mushrooms inside, the recipe associated with Buddhist monks resembles sliced duck breast more than a little, rightr Full House ... More >>

• Food Can Be Used To Sell Almost Anything

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Christian Louboutin uses fish hooks and $2 cans of sardines to sell shoes that can run as high as $1,400 per pair. What does it meanr We may be in the Age of Foodism's twilight, and one of the sign... More >>

• Shanghai Newcomer Full House Brings Back Soup Dumplings

  published May 1, 2013

  It was back in 1995 that a modest restaurant in Flushing drew the attention of the city's proto-foodies to Shanghai cooking by astonishing them... More >>

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  Is This NYC's Best Steakr And How To Cook It

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Moe Albanese's "porterhouse ribeye" at Albanese Meats & Poultry Peddling up Elizabeth Street from Chinatown this weekend, FiTR spotted the facade of an ancient butcher shop we'd passed many times be... More >>

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  The EV Finally Gets an SF Burrito Mojado

  published Apr 29, 2013

  Taqueria Cancun's burrito mojado is a gigantic carne asado burrito drowning in sauces. In San Francisco's Mission District, where the burrito as we know it was invented, the ultimate form is known a... More >>

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  Luscious Raspberry-Lemon Tarts at Bien Cuit

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Who doesn't love a lemon-custard tartr When the new Bien Cuit debuted on Christopher Street, the main difference between it and its parent was the prevalence of new pastries. While FiTR has found th... More >>

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  Six Miracles of East Village Ungentrification

  published Apr 26, 2013

  Miraculously, lunch counter B & H Dairy remains, from the era when its stretch of Second Avenue was known as the Yiddish Broadway. As a tribute to E.V. Grieve, the East Village's chronicler of closu... More >>

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  Mole Poblano Goes Mainstream: Cosi's Sandwich Fail

  published Apr 25, 2013

  Cosi's bread looks like an alligator, or maybe tree bark. Those of us who fervidly celebrate the joys of immigrant cooking and its eventual assimilation into the standard American dietrthink tortill... More >>

• Confused About Regional American BBQr Listen to This Song

  published Apr 24, 2013

  Barbecue styles from the South, the Midwest, and points beyond have been invading New York City like an army of warrior ants in the last few years. As was demonstrated by a recent Voice cover story, w... More >>

• Korean Naengmyun, Spectacularly Served in a Bowl Made of Ice

  published Apr 24, 2013

  Keeping your noodles cold and refreshing The night before last I had the pleasure of dining with Matt Rodbard, one of the critics who participated in the new Korean Restaurant Guide: New York. This ... More >>

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  Nearly Free Japanese Curry This Thursday!

  published Apr 23, 2013

  The signature katsu curry, without further toppings, will be 55 cents this Thursday. Japanese curry is a strange entity, so remote from Indian curries (themselves a sort of convenient fiction), that... More >>

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  Café Cluny Chooses a Surprising New Chef

  published April 24, 2013

  No place better displays the quirky charm of West Village architecture than Café Cluny. Connected by a narrow passageway, the dining... More >>

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  Food at Barclays Fatty 'Cue is Really, Really Terrible

  published Apr 22, 2013

  FiTR has recommended where to eat at outside Barclays Center, but there's a whole host of places to eat inside the arena, too, including many counters and carts offering nachos, hot dogs, hamburgers,... More >>

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  Custard-Filled Galaktoboureko From Lefkos Pyrgos

  published Apr 19, 2013

  The custard in the Galaktoboureko is even better tasting than it looks. [Fat Pants Fridays was a weekly feature presenting the city's most appealing cakes, puddings, and other treats created by our ... More >>

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  Watertown Restaurant Strip-T's at the Center of Police Activity

  published Apr 19, 2013

  The picture of the restaurant on its Facebook page. If you've been watching the coverage of the Boston bombing on any of the networks, you know the the manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev took place on Wi... More >>

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  Joe's 14th Street: The Neighborhood Pizzeria Fights Back

  published Apr 18, 2013

  The blobs of fresh white cheese on Joe's "Fresh Mozzarella" slice look like fluffy cartoon clouds against an angry red sky. No doubt that the neighborhood pizzeria, once a leading dining institution... More >>

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  Brooklyn Is All About Clams

  published Apr 17, 2013

  The "stuffies" at Kittery are wonderful. Overflowing with fennel-flavored Italian sausage, they're Brooklyn on the half-shell. In the 1630s, when the first Dutch settlers started poking around in th... More >>

• Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

  published April 17, 2013

  Many New Yorkers cherish memories of New England seacoast vacations. And a visit to a lobster pound, clam shack, or oyster bar poised by the... More >>

• Dollar Pizza Reconsidered

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Hey, the pizza here is really good! A thought-provoking piece in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Sophia Hollander ("Economics, Sliced") bemoaned the decline of the neighborhood pizza slice, esp... More >>

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  La Vie en Szechuan's $7.95 Lunch Special

  published Apr 16, 2013

  La Vie en Szechuan's exemplary ma po tofu Midtown now boasts the city's largest concentrations of Sichuan restaurants. Most of these are timid compared to the ones in Flushing, offering little in th... More >>

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  What's the Garlickiest Dish in NYC (and Immediate Vicinity)r

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Rocambole is said to be the strongest form of garlic, and has a dirty appearance due to its purplish coloration. My Irish grandfather, Ned Lafferty, loved garlic so much he was known to take out two... More >>

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  The Evolution of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile

  published Apr 12, 2013

  When I was a kid in Minneapolis, the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was a sight to be savored. My friends and I would see it only once or twice a year, in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 'bur... More >>

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  Burger Joint's 'Normal' Burger

  published Apr 11, 2013

  At the new Burger Joint in Greenwich Village, a burger, fries, and a Coke will set you back $11.16, including tax. The abrupt opening yesterday of the first branch location of Burger Joint occasione... More >>