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April 18, 2012
Where Was I Eating? El Mariachi Restaurant
Great guesses the second time around. I was eating the steak enchiladas smothered with cheese at El Mariachi, a low-key Mexican restaurant in Astoria.
Blogs
December 21, 2011
11 Best Burgers of 2011, NYC
Bacon cheeseburger at Prospect Heights' Dean Street In honor of National Hamburger Day (why so close to Christmas, meat-masters?), we here present the 11 burgers that stuck most in our minds. And we promise they taste as good as they look.
Blogs
September 21, 2011
A Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Chew; Madison Square Garden Goes Foodie
A behind-the-scenes look at The Chew, which starts Monday, starring Mario Batali, Top Chef alum Carla Hall, Michael Symon, Clinton Kelly of the show What Not to Wear, and Daphne Oz, Dr. Oz's daughter. [NY Times] PepsiCo is launching an initiative to increase its access to chickpeas by growin ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Corner Bistro Goes to Queens, R.U.B Goes to Long Island
VoiceYesterday, it was Bare Burger and the Shake Shack, and today, there's more meat movement to report.
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July 26, 2011
Bare Burger Is Set to Open, and Shake Shack Is Set to Have Outdoor Seating
Bare Burger/FacebookBrooklyn's getting some new buns.Although Shake Shack's been busy ignoring shameless copycats and sparking idle talk of a Grand Central turf war, it's also been tending to the Brooklyn outpost of its empire.
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June 9, 2011
Vesta's Giuseppe Falco Reflects on the Astoria Restaurant Community, Giant Squash, and Baby Jesus Cake
Photo courtesy of VestaThe dining room of Vesta, Giuseppe Falco's first restaurant in Astoria. Three years ago, Giuseppe Falco partnered with Leo Sacco to open Vesta Trattoria. The seasonally focused Italian restaurant and wine bar quickly earned an enthusiastic following in Astoria, a neighb ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Live: The Roots Play To The Crowd At Astoria's New Outdoor Venue
The Roots Studio Square Wednesday, May 4 Better Than: Whatever '90s cover band was playing elsewhere in Astoria. An hour into the Roots' Wednesday night show, located at the Astoria beer garden Studio Square, Black Thought finally got the crowd to sing along. The trouble was, the song the a ... More >>
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April 8, 2011
Open and Closed: Say Hello to West End, Goodbye to Café Flo
Restaurants and bars, they come and they go. Here are a few making their debuts and bowing out this week. Vai, the Upper East Side spot that just got a Soho outpost, has closed. The building is reportedly being torn down. [Grub Street] Café Flo in Astoria did not survive a four-alarm blaze that r ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Tomorrow: NYC's Top 10 Bar Snacks
Saturated with mayo and smoked paprika, and scattered with chives, the Sparrow Tavern's corn-on-the-cob is a luscious delight, but will it make the cut? Sometimes you don't want to dig into a big elaborate meal. Like when you're in a bar, sipping cocktails, belting beers, or tippling red win ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Certain Parts of Queens Are Looking a Little More Like Certain Parts of Brooklyn
Salt & FatIt was only a matter of time (and rents) before this happened, but little bits of Queens are starting to look like little bits of Brooklyn.
Voice Choices
February 2, 2011
FREAKS & GEEKS
Public Access gone wild
Blogs
January 24, 2011
Rapist Strikes in Astoria
Watch out for this Astoria rapist!Here's a sketch of a rapist who attacked a 19-year-old woman at about 12:30 a.m. last Thursday, January 20, at 26th Avenue and Second Street in Astoria, just south of Hellgate Park. He approached her from behind, pushed her to the ground and sexually assaulted he ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Lottery Burglar's Luck Still Hasn't Run Out
The NYPD's now asking for the public's help in finding a burglar who busted through the front door of Nature's Chemist, 23-92 21st Street in Astoria, at about 12:15 a.m. on Friday, January 7, and stole a passel of lottery tickets. The guy was captured on video at another store turning in some of ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
L'Artiste--A New Reason to Visit the Arrondissement of Astoria
Think 'Borough Continental'
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Robert Sietsema at Lima Limon; Lauren Shockey at L'Artiste
This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema indulges in "Peruvian Viagra" at Lima Limon in Little Latin America; Lauren Shockey discovers classic bistro fare at L'Artiste in Astoria. Sam Sifton awards a mostly enthusiastic two stars to Millesime: "holy cats, is there a beautiful, even exciting b ... More >>
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January 3, 2011
Garbage-Pocalypse Follows Snow-Pocalypse: This Is Your Life, New York
Gosh, don't you sort of miss the early days of the blizzard about now? It was all pretty and clean (for a moment), and we were all "trapped" on vacation. And now things are back to normal, sort of, except smellier and with more bags of trash hanging around with which to attract vermin and vom ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Artichoke May Become the Next Shake Shack
You can run, but you can't hide.Speaking of chains: It seems that Artichoke's recent expansion to Tenth Avenue and to MacDougal Street is but the tip of a very large ice pick. In an interview with Grub Street, Francis Garcia, one of the pizzeria's owners, says that Pizza Hut "had better worr ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 13, 2010
TRICK OR DRINK?
In Astoria, you can do both
Blogs
September 28, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Jess ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
Fat Pants Friday: Baked's Peanut S'mores Bar
Last weekend, en route to the Red Hook Ballfields, we stopped at Baked and ordered a peanut butter-banana s'mores bar. The bakery was crowded and the lady behind the counter was slightly harried, so instead of the peanut butter-banana thing, we ended up with the almost-identical peanut s'mo ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Church Bingo Scam in Queens Nets $830,000, Old-School-Style
We thought this "oldest trick in the book" sort of con only happened in movies with smooth-talking snake-oil preachers and gullible townsfolk, but clearly, we were the gullible ones here! According to ABC, three wayward church-goers implemented a bingo scam in Jackson Heights that netted them ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
New York's Cheap Eats Issue
Out today is New York's Cheap Eats issue, wherein Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite round up the year's myriad developments in (mostly) affordable eating. They've got your burgers, your new-wave Asian (Fatty 'Cue, Baohaus, Umi Nom, et al.), your vegetarian, your noodles, fried chicken, and so on. B ... More >>
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June 1, 2010
FDNY Saves Puppies and Kitties in Pet Store Fire Peril
Okay, we're calling it a day. Depressed that you're back in the normal grind of things after a lovely three-day weekend? And that the weather sucks? So is everyone else, asshole. Cheer up! How? Funny you ask.
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April 15, 2010
Local Big Black Acolytes Austerity Program On The Virtues of Pranking Your Own Label and Their New EP, Backsliders and Apostates Will Burn
Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Astoria duo Austerity Program take the lunging acrimony of classic pigfuck and subvert it through the evil scrunch of modern extreme metal. They've always sounded a little like Big Black--what with ... More >>
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February 20, 2010
Kalif Canady, 22, Shot to Death in Queens
View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2010, 1:17 a.m. LOCATION: 4th St and 27 Ave., Astoria, Queens. The police say 22-year-old Kalif Canady, of 27th Avenue, was shot to death at the above intersection which is near the Astoria Houses, a public housing development. He was shot in the head. He ... More >>
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January 5, 2010
Edible Queens and Joe DiStefano Join Forces to Create Queens Food Blog
llahbocaj/flickrFood in Queens: here, there, everywhere.Roving reporter, serial masticator, and sometimes Fork in the Road contributor Joe DiStefano knows a thing or two about eating his way through Queens, so we can't think of a more fitting author for World's Fare, the blog he's just launch ... More >>
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December 16, 2009
Have You Seen... Astoria Mugger, Would-Be Rapist
On Sunday around 4 in the morning, this guy came up to a woman as she came out of the 31st Street subway station in Astoria, knocked her down, took her cellphone, and then tried to rape her. Failing in this attempt, and took off. He's described as Hispanic, 5'6", and 165 pounds. If you have ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
Pix from Ovelia, a Modern Greek Restaurant in Astoria
The nearly unpronounceable kolokithokeftedes are fried zucchini patties served with an ouzo-laced tomato dipping sauce. This week, Counter Culture triremes into Ovelia, a modernistic boite in Astoria that retains its ancient outlook. The portions are generous, the tariff light. Anything that ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Some of Our Favorite Restaurant Names, Part 3
A storefront in Murray Hill, Flushing, Queens, proclaims poultry insanity. Here we go again, offering yet another picture gallery of our favorite names for restaurants, liquor stores, coffee bars, caterers, and other food- and booze-related establishments.
Blogs
October 7, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC: Skordalia and Grilled Veggies at Ovelia in Astoria, Queens
Vegetarian and even vegan delights abound among the Greek restaurants of Astoria. One that I stumbled on quite recently was at Ovelia, a Hellenic spot that eschews photos of the Parthenon and little windmill models in favor of seeming like a modern cafe. One of my vegetarian favorit ... More >>
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September 10, 2009
Queens Joins the Edible Family
The Edible family just got a little bigger: The powers-that-be behind Edible Queens have just announced the debut of the magazine, which is edited and published by Leah McLaughlin. The premiere issue includes a trip to Flushing -- the city's "more diverse and affluent Chinatown" -- with Antho ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
Murphys Law+Antidote
The Edible family just got a little bigger: The powers-that-be behind Edible Queens have just announced the debut of the magazine, which is edited and published by Leah McLaughlin. The premiere issue includes a trip to Flushing -- the city's "more diverse and affluent Chinatown" -- with Antho ... More >>
Dining
August 11, 2009
A New Crop of Thais Pops Up in Woodside and Astoria
The Edible family just got a little bigger: The powers-that-be behind Edible Queens have just announced the debut of the magazine, which is edited and published by Leah McLaughlin. The premiere issue includes a trip to Flushing -- the city's "more diverse and affluent Chinatown" -- with Antho ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2009
Dinner and Tattoos
Yesterday evening at a dinner at Croatian eatery Rudar Soccer Club in Astoria, we had the misfortune of arriving right after a big bacherlorette party, meaning that our food was very slow in coming. As we waited for our dinner, we began comparing tattoos as a way of entertaining ourselves ... More >>
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March 19, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC -- Bolanee Kadu
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
Dining
January 1, 2008
A Pair of Bosnian Cafés Compete on a Queens Corner
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
NYC Life
February 21, 2006
Queens Bar Hits All the Right Notes, Then Misses on the Music
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
NYC Life
November 8, 2005
Close-Up on Long Island City
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
NYC Life
May 24, 2005
Queens' Nights: Celebrate College-Like Antics in Astoria
Jack-O-Lantern fritters are crunchy and sweet (click to engorge) The meatiness of Afghan cuisine can be a turn-off to vegetarians, and the smell of lamb grilling over charcoal is a feature of most of the city's kebab houses. But dig deeper at Balkh Shish Kabab House and find that strictly v ... More >>
NYC Life
March 29, 2005
Feta Unfettered
Getting beyond Greek salad
NYC Life
November 9, 2004
A No-Name Destination Serves Up Tchotchkes and Tipples
Getting beyond Greek salad
NYC Life
May 4, 2004
Garden Party
Outside is the perfect setting to cure all that ales you
NYC Life
January 7, 2003
Close-up on Astoria
Outside is the perfect setting to cure all that ales you
NYC Life
July 23, 2002
Listings
Outside is the perfect setting to cure all that ales you
NYC Life
May 28, 2002
Fair-Weather Friends
Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze
Film
April 2, 2002
Beat the Parents
Best Bets for Boozing in the Breeze
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June 26, 2001
Death in Astoria
An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy
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April 3, 2001
Pass the Mashed
An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy
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January 16, 2001
Attic Scales on the East Side
An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy
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December 28, 1999
Queens For A Day
An Eyewitness to Flame and Frenzy
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