The meat-bearing version
Yup, it's easy enough to broadcast your love of pizza by wearing a T-shirt that advertises your favorite parlor with an slogan or maybe a crude picture of a slice. There ar...
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The dish called Soft Boiled Egg at Egg spinoff Parish Hall
When Parish Hall opened late last year as the pricier offshoot of Egg, it wasn't too difficult to tell which direction it would take. The s...
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San Antonio Botanical Garden, April 19, 2012, 3:37 p.m.
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The burger at Winstead's (rather grandly called a "steakburger"), celebrated by Calvin Trillin in American Fried
As burgers have become a mainstay of New York City bistros, bars, and snack shops, ar...
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Perhaps the world's oldest city, Varanasi is also Hinduism's holiest site. It lies on the banks of the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, a state... More >>
The burrito mechado (your choice of fillings) is lightly baked and smothered in sauce.
This week, Counter Culture crawls into Florencia 13, one of New York's only Cal-Mex gastronomic resources and a...
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You can't imagine how many complaints I've fielded from Angelenos who can't stand NYC's Mexican food. Invariably, the tortillas are all wrong,... More >>
The best dish we tried was the scrumptious beef taquitos.
Angelo Sosa--the season seven Top Chef contestant who ended up in second place--opened Anejo Tequileria in Hell's Kitchen as chef and partne...
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On the left, the Canadian-bacon-and-pineapple slice; on the right, the standard cheese slice. Note how the cheese pulls up from the tip in a dense indigestible mass.
A gastronomic miracle occurred t...
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Chicken in Peanut Stew (left) and Foutou (right) are Ivory Coast fare.
Food from the Ivory Coast is one of the city's rarer West African cuisines, with only one place in East Harlem and another in B...
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After a hiatus of only a few weeks, the West Village's Doma reopens.
To some, a beloved coffee shop, to others just a pickup joint for thirtysomethings, Doma first appeared a decade ago at the corn...
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One vendor offered knitted coffee-cup cozies shaped like cupcakes, fingerless fried-egg mittens, and Lucky Charms headbands.
The juried craft show called BUST Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair was...
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Amid frantic corporate restructuring, as reported by The New York Times, and a sagging market share, the Burger King in bending over backwards to delight foodies with a new genre that might be dubbed ...
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Perhaps the weirdest bagel in Pinnacle's ample arsenal: the French toast bagel. And yes it is actually that sickly yellow color.
Pinnacle Bagels on the Square is one of Greenwich Village's most popu...
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The house margarita at Empellón Cocina
By legend, the margarita was invented around 1940 in an Italian restaurant in Ensenada, Mexico, to commemorate the visit of the daughter of the German a...
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The red blob in the center is the sole product of a new Turkish eatery.
"Do you have a takeout menur" I asked as, abandoning my bike on the curb, I stepped into the newly refurbished storefront on E...
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This is Chinese foodr Looks more like American succotash: the dish called "fried popcorn pine nuts" at Minzhongle.
Yesterday, Counter Culture covered Zero Otto Nove, a pair of southern Italian twins...
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The spicy chicken sandwich laid bare -- but there really should be more stuff inside the bun, like onions and tomatoes or something.
I was kinda excited when the McDonald's hype machine cranked up t...
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In the Bronx, ZON's margherita is one of the city's most perfect evocations of that sainted Neapolitan pie.
Today, Counter Culture compares two renditions of Roberto Paciullo's (of Roberto Restauran...
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Maybe we're living in the wrong country: The British rendition of Pizza Hut seems much more adventuresome in their pizza tinkerings. In this case, they've invented a pie with a hot dog, or maybe hot ...
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Ever seen this sort of dim sum beforer The black and white pearl shrimp dumplings at Genting Palace.
When my friend Mike Epstein (@mikepstein) heard a vague rumor about dim sum being served at Aqued...
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The chawan mushi appetizer arrives with a black-truffle crag.
When was the last time you were exposed to top-shelf sushir Most of us measure out our lives in mediocre finger sushi and nori rolls, an...
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