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NYC Guide: Shopping
[voice choice] Savory Sojourns
These leisurely but expensive five-hour eating tours include kitchen visits, cooking demonstrations, and plenty of food sampling. >> read more
Hobbies, Electronics, Accessories, Shoes, Women only, Shopping - General
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Aerosoles can be counted on, season after season, not only for passable knockoffs of designer shoes, but also for styles uniquely their own and very worth coveting. Inexpensive and valued for prioritizing—get this!—comfor ... read on
Ann Taylor Loft is the edgier outpost of Ann Taylor; the original trades in safe work looks, while Loft presents sanitized versions of already digested trends. Don’t mock them for trying—the results are clean and infinite ... read on
2290 Broadway New York, NY
10024 Upper West Phone:
212-579-5959
Jewish, Deli, Kosher
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With its black-and-white tiled floor and funhouse-mirrored dining room, it's hard to believe this (non-kosher) Jewish deli was founded in 1999, not 1939. By midtown standards the prices are reasonable, and the matzoh ball sou ... read on
First, note the shocking use of a derogatory, racist phrase as moniker. I suppose it almost made sense back when Banana Republic was a destination for Hemingway-on-safari clothes, but the brand has undergone a thorough transf ... read on
Events, Beauty/Grooming, Accessories, Shoes, Men only, Women only, Fashion
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You can smell this place down the block. The odor: a mélange of fruity fragrances like a kid's breakfast cereal. If you want to run around all day smelling like Toucan Sam, then you'll love it here: Every conceivable masque, ... read on
There was a time when the Body Shop's marriage of heady idealism and no-nonsense capitalism seemed a revolutionary concept. These days, though, most grocery stores stock organic shampoo, so the chain has lost the corner on th ... read on
10 Columbus Circle, 3rd fl New
York, NY 10019 Midtown Phone: 212-823-9366
French, Bakery
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Presided over by Thomas Keller, this facsimile boulangerie in the Time Warner Center may be the closest most of us come to eating at the French Laundry. The baked goods are impeccable, including croissants, pans au chocolat, ... read on
3432 Nostrand Ave. Brooklyn,
NY 11229 Brooklyn Phone:
718-769-1254
Deli
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Granddaddy of the roast beef joints is Brennan and Carr. Founded in 1938, when Homecrest was still crisscrossed with country lanes, it's nostalgically decorated like a Civil War stockade, with a parking lot inside chain-link ... read on
129-06 Liberty Ave. Jamaica,
NY 11419 Jamaica Phone:
718-323-6438
Guyanese, Bakery
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This postage stamp of a business is mainly a bakery, and you have to troop by racks of white bread to get to the counter. There you'll find a delectably thick, dark, tender lamb curry; chicken patties stacked horizontally beh ... read on
Vegetarian Friendly, Mexican, Restaurants - General, Vitamin, Health food
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Listen, if you need your burrito to be the size of a cat, that’s cool. I understand the appeal of all the ingredients goo-ing together to create a brave new world of flavor-sludge. My only question is: why no pork? -LALLI29 ... read on
760 Eighth Ave. New York, NY
10036 Times Square (42nd to
59th) Phone: 212-730-4949
Deli
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A deli with an "executive chef"? Carve is a nifty carryout that specializes in rotisserie-roasted meats, freshly carved from, say, an herbed pork loin, a bourbon-glazed ham, or an entire turkey, depending on the day, and heap ... read on
Events, Shoes, Men only, Shopping - General, Sports Gear
Not quite the male equivalent to Motherhood Maternity, Casual Male Big & Tall—for super buff, tall, or fat men—uses distractingly involved patterned fabrics. The supersized clothes here are comfortable, durable, and, desp ... read on
Rack after rack of the kind of flimsy accessories (barrettes, rings, scrunchies, and pins) that one buys, expecting to lose. -AVIV211-43 26th AveQueens, NY (718) 225-8392107-29 71st AveQueens, NY (718) 261-16802133-35 86t ... read on
138 Avenue T Brooklyn, NY
11223 Brooklyn Phone:
800-427-0556
Deli
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Forget the lettuce, forget the tomato, and, especially, forget the mayo at Clemente's, an ancient Brooklyn hero shop that begins with a good Italian loaf, piles on the tender roast beef, still barely pink in the middle, then ... read on
