Blogs
May 24, 2013Marc Vidal, chef of the growing Boqueria empire that launched in Flatiron in 2006, takes hold of a green shoot, pinches the bottom of the attached white bulb and, as if peeling off long underwear after a cold winter day, slips off the charred skin of a what looks like a green onion. He holds up the ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 16, 2013Go exploring with Joe Morris
Blogs
August 27, 2012Another Spanish tapas and wine restaurant is coming to town. From restaurateur Sid Gupta (Pappardella, Village Pourhouse, Hudson Terrace, Little Town) and Marion Maur (who most recently ran her own restaurant Marion's Country Kitchen for five years in Woodstock), Casa Pomona will be debuting on the ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2012Not since the heyday of Kate Bosworth, Kate Beckinsale, and God knows who else have I been so ditzed-out about trying to separate various starlets in my mind.
See if you can help me tell these three up-and-comers apart.
Let's see, there's Rachel, Rebecca, Rosemary...Grrr.
Too many R names on pre ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2012[ See More Chef Interviews: Dragonfly's Cornelius Gallagher Quotes Bill Cosby, Is Influenced by Gray Kunz | Q&A with Chef Max Hardy on Cooking for the New York Knicks ]
Yesterday we chatted with chef Justin Smillie about his commitment to the farmers market and the thrills of an open kitchen. Tod ... More >>
Dining
March 7, 2012A giant tapas bar tries it one more time
Voice Choices
June 22, 2011West Coast homies are back!
Voice Choices
April 27, 2011Great art that won't break the bank
Blogs
April 13, 2011In the days before MP3 blogs blanketed the land, there was Epitonic, which offered users the opportunity to download select free MP3s from mostly indie labels and could easily be rifled through for hours on end (especially since it launched in the tail-end of the dialup era). The site went do ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent.
"Man, I'm old"A shrapnel bomb of ill-angled words and sputtering electronic bloops, Beans has been the most visible member of longstanding NYC avant-rap crew Antipop Consortium. He says his confessi ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2010Blogs
October 28, 2010Ron Suhanosky and Colleen Marnell-Suhanosky, the couple who opened Sfoglia on the Upper East Side, are no longer involved with the restaurant or its Nantucket big-sister establishment.
[Diner's Journal]
Ferran Adrià and his brother Albert have announced they're opening two new restaurants i ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010Marc VidalBoqueria's new chef, Marc Vidal, got on the restaurant's blog yesterday to introduce himself and give a little background on his upbringing in Spain. His grandfather owned a restaurant, he says, in which his grandmother cooked and his mother ran the front room. He posts some charmin ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 20, 2010Blogs
December 8, 2009Pretty is as pretty costsMidtown's Borne Confections (Matt Damon racing through the streets of Paris pursued by a chocolate truffle?) has just received its first shipment of Oriol Balaguer chocolates, representing the U.S. debut of the Barcelona-based chocolatier, who spent seven years at el ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 10, 2009Blogs
November 3, 2009Over tapas at the newly opened Mercat Negre in Williamsburg last week, a group of diners could not help but notice the waiter's use of the term "bistronomic." Had he said it just once, they might have ignored it as they sipped their crisp, refreshing albarino and munched deliciously deep-fried croqu ... More >>
Blogs
October 9, 2009Welcome to Friday afternoon. Without further ado, the week's best posts:
The Early Word paid visits to Sunset Park's El Comal taqueria and Luke's Lobster.
Spain's Ribera del Duero region is producing some mighty fine wines.
In Battle of the Dishes, McDonald's Big Mac squared off against Burger Ki ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2009
While New York is home to (arguably) complimentary culinary odes to Obama, like The Obama Flavor, Barcelona has somehow spawned the inexplicably awful Obama British Africa. Complete with leopard print and long-toothed tigers, the pub sits just off the restrained and lovely boulevard of Pass ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2009One of many stalls in La Boqueria Market where you can get cured pig of all kinds. The smell alone is enough to knock you over.
I was recently in Barcelona, a city with a hugely thriving restaurant culture. At all times of day, people flock to cafes, bars, and restaurants to eat pastries an ... More >>
Film
August 25, 2009The full transcript of our conversation with the recently returned director
Voice Choices
August 18, 2009A prominent pianist at (le) poisson? Sign us up.
Blogs
August 13, 2009Darco TT/flickrThe Post reported yesterday that Dans Le Noir?, the Paris-based restaurant chain that hires blind waiters to serve "surprise" menus to diners under the veil of total darkness, is planning to open a New York outpost. The chain, which was founded in 2004 with funding from the Pau ... More >>
Blogs
July 16, 2009Ryan Skeen--formerly of Resto, the General Greene, and Irving Mill--has officially been named the new executive chef at Allen & Delancey on the LES. Both chef Kyle Bailey and pastry chef Tiffany MacIsaac have left the restaurant. A new pastry chef has yet to be named.
[NY Times]
Spanish chef Paco G ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2009Voice Choices
May 27, 2009Voice Choices
April 29, 2009From the people that brought you flamenco and Penélope Cruz!
Voice Choices
April 22, 2009Blogs
March 23, 2009 We went up to Union Square today to try newcomer Num Pang's Cambodian sandwiches, but found a note on the door saying that the restaurant was closed today and would re-open tomorrow. So we stopped into nearby Wok to Walk instead, a sleek, Amsterdam-based noodle franchise with other branches in Lond ... More >>
Blogs
December 11, 2008Film
August 12, 2008Woody Allen is back from his European vacation. Next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera
Film
April 22, 2008Spray-can doc keeps it one-sided
News
February 19, 2008Dining
May 22, 2007Escaping gas and wobbly egg at Manhattan's best tapas bar
Art
April 17, 2007Barcelona and the birth of the modern at the Met
Art
April 10, 2007Music
October 3, 2006NYC Life
August 15, 2006How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations
Film
January 17, 2006News
August 30, 2005Americans head to Europe for cheaper schools, better lives
NYC Life
June 7, 2005DJ Richie Hawtin on Barcelona, bottle service, and Berlin
NYC Life
December 21, 2004Specials
August 24, 2004News
July 20, 2004New York's DJs flee overseas to Berlin and Barcelona
News
March 9, 2004Film
December 2, 2003Civil war and remembrance dominate annual series, along with liars, cheats, and killers
Music
June 10, 2003Local Post-Dub Label Agitronicizes the Oil Barons
NYC Life
May 7, 2002Long Island Voice
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