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January 31, 2012
Choice Eats 2012: Second Group of Participants Announced
The celebrated stuffed eggplant at Bay Ridge's Tanoreen, one of the festival participants The Village Voice has announced a second group of 17 restaurant, bakery, and chocolatier participants for its Choice Eats food festival. These join the 21 announced last Wednesday, bringing the total to 38 so ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2011
Man Tries, Fails to Rob Bank in Bay Ridge
A man with little of the je ne sais quoi possessed by the suited robber from yesterday tried and failed to rob a bank in Bay Ridge on Monday. The man, whose outfit of jeans and a sweatshirt simply doesn't cut it in comparison to the Midtown robber's natty suit, passed a note demanding money t ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Fork in the Road's Favorite Diners
Jayjay P / FlickrIt's time for Tuesday Toasts, our weekly feature highlighting the Fork in the Road team's favorite versions of popular dishes and favorite spots in the city for a given activity. They might not be the best or the coolest or the newest, but instead represent the things and pla ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2011
Richard and Vinnie's Meat Market Closes After 43 Years in Bay Ridge
beerman/Bay Ridge TalkSome sad news to report from Bay Ridge: after 43 years as a popular neighborhood butcher shop, Richard & Vinnie's Prime Meats is closing. A friend from the area tells us that the Third Avenue shop sold off the remainder of its inventory yesterday. Judging by the chatter ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Meat Prices Could Shoot Up 7 Percent This Year; Upscale Supermarkets Hit China
The floods, droughts, storms and tornadoes that hit the United States in April and May could mean a severe spike in food prices, including a 7 percent increase in the price of meat over the next year. [NPR] Deliverymen for Chinese restaurants are increasingly using electric bicycles--much to the ch ... More >>
Dining
May 18, 2011
Man'ouChe Brings a Little Lebanon to Bay Ridge
Do we smell cedar? Maybe not. But garlic—you bet.
Blogs
May 18, 2011
This Week in the Voice: The Obie Awards 2011
This week in the Voice, Michael Feingold muses on the current state of theater, cost-cutting and all. "The arts can find ways out of their straitened financial situation," he says, going on to talk about the folks in New York theater who help, and have helped, give it meaning. Related: Eric G ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Vestiges of Norway in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn: Kringler, Firklover, and Knackebrod
Don't let all the trolls in the window scare you away from Nordic Delicacies. When the Norwegians - and later, other Scandinavians - arrived in Bay Ridge late in the 19th century, they loved its open countryside and expansive views of the ocean. The Narrows of the Lower Harbor, now spanned ... More >>
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April 23, 2011
Will the Real Macarons...er, Macaroons or Maakarons, Please Stand Up!
One of these pastries is also called "macaron," but which one? We've spilled lots of ink lately on the difference between macaroons and macarons -- the former being sticky, coconut-based cookies popular for Passover, the latter cheerless-but-colorful sandwich cookies that taste something l ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Video of Rapist on the Loose in Bay Ridge
Cops are looking for an alleged rapist who attacked two women, 20 minutes apart, on the night of February 25 in the area of 82nd Street in Bay Ridge. In the first attack, at about 11:20 p.m., a 44-year-old woman opened her building's front door, and he pointed a gun from her, forced her inside, too ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
This Week in the Voice
In this week's issue of the Voice, J. Hoberman helps us understand the year in film that was 2010. The Social Network is this year's top choice in the annual critic's poll. Hoberman also provides an amazing top 10 list of the year's best films.
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November 11, 2010
Vindaloo for You! An NYC Curry Crawl.
Victoria BekiempisNo need to hurry to Curry in a Hurry Every now and then, even the most misanthropic, bookish types need a little excitement in their lives -- more spice, if you will -- than looking at framed pictures of their cats between sips of Earl Grey. Exotic food, in particular, helps ... More >>
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November 4, 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 ... Rebe ... More >>
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November 3, 2010
Where to Eat Along the Marathon Route; Grimaldi's Owner Sues Landlady
In the kitchen with Adam Rapoport, the new editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, who believes the magazine "can and should build on the massive interest in food in this country." [NY Times] Wondering where to eat as you cheer on this year's marathoners? Mile 2: Bay Ridge's Longbow Pub and Pantry, ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Tomorrow: My 10 Favorite Brooklyn Restaurants
The grilled octopus with beans at Bay Ridge's Athena Express is a contenderEveryone has their favorite restaurants--the ones that are dependable after a long day, where they make the fried eggplant exactly how you like it. These places might not be "the best" but they're the places you're dra ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
Bay Ridge's Hom Provides Free Brunch for the Unemployed
Well, this is sweet: The owner of Bay Ridge's Hom is giving out free meals to the unemployed. Per the Daily News, Salvatore Forte has since October been serving free brunch to anyone who calls ahead and asks, despite the fact that his business has been down two-thirds since the recession took ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Robert Sietsema at Casabel Taqueria; Sarah DiGregorio at Seersucker & Peaches HotHouse
This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema squeezes into Casabel Taqueria, where "the tacos are happily similar to something you might get from a truck parked on Roosevelt Avenue." Sarah DiGregorio sees Brooklyn heating up with two new Southern-accented newcomers: Seersucker and Peaches HotHouse. ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2010
Posts of the Week
Friday afternoon is happily upon us, which means that it's time to cast a gimlet eye back to the best posts of the last few days. We ranked Our 10 Best Things to Eat Around Times Square. In a two-part interview, Smoke's Patricia Williams talked about everything from industry sexism to cooking for ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2010
Posts of the Week
As we head into a 48-hour period of relative oblivion, here's a look back at the best posts of the last five days: This week, g-u-t-b-o-m-b is spelled by the Galway Hooker's hooker burger. Paul Giannone, the man behind the new Paulie Gee's, talked about making the leap from IT manager to restauran ... More >>
Dining
March 2, 2010
Hop the Train Out to Tanoreen and Athena Express
Mideast fare—and some new Greek—in Bay Ridge
Blogs
February 17, 2010
Eta Eckstein, 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Booted By Brooklyn Landlord
A survivor got kicked off the island — that's a real survivor we're talking about: Eta Eckstein, 92, was in a rehab facility when all her belongings from her rent-controlled Bay Ridge apartment were tossed into the street. Lost forever are the Holocaust survivor's heirlooms, family photos and ... More >>
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February 17, 2010
Eta Eckstein, 92-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor, Booted By Brooklyn Landlord
A survivor got kicked off the island — that's a real survivor we're talking about: Eta Eckstein, 92, was in a rehab facility when all her belongings from her rent-controlled Bay Ridge apartment were tossed into the street. Lost forever are the Holocaust survivor's heirlooms, family photos and ... More >>
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February 16, 2010
Where Am I Eating?
Where can you eat this burger? Welcome to Where Am I Eating? Last week's inaugural post featured food from Tanoreen in Bay Ridge; commenter Jenny won a copy of Judith Jones's Cooking For One for guessing the restaurant correctly. So where do you suppose this burger can be found? The first co ... More >>
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July 29, 2009
Brooklyn D.A. Busts Drug Kingpin Who Posed As Used Car Dealer
A Cuban national who supplied drugs to crack houses on the outreaches of Brooklyn was caught in Miami and indicted by the D.A.'s office today. The man, Yotuhel Montane, ostensibly ran a South Florida car dealership, but was actually supplying a kilogram of cocaine each month to a drug ring in ... More >>
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February 2, 2009
Chong Qing Chicken Obsession
Grand Sichuan St. Mark's Chong Qing ChickenWhen Sietsema's review of Grand Sichuan House (8701 Fifth Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn) ran accompanied by a gorgeous shot of what looks like a plate mounded with dried red chiles and nothing else, I ran right down to Bay Ridge to try the dish. The preparati ... More >>
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January 21, 2009
The Early Word -- Woodburning Pit
Best Dish: Pork rib I've made no secret of my enthusiasm for the Portuguese neighborhood barbecues of Newark's Ironbound, corner bars that hand-rotisserie massive racks of ribs and whole splayed chickens with pirir-piri sauce over lump charcoal. Now Bay Ridge has its own Portuguese barbecue (known ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2009
The Name Game
Like us, you're probably really tired of the boring names lately conferred on Manhattan's food producing establishments. It also seems like all the good names have been taken, as we witness places being named with such faceless monikers as Co., Earth, and Delicatessen, or totally cringewor ... More >>
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January 13, 2009
Gibby, Gibby, Hey! -- Pix from Asmak Taama
My review this week is of a new Egyptian seafood spot in Bay Ridge, Asmak Taama, which brings the tally to three such places in the immediate vicinity. The best appetizer was an engaging dish of fried eggplant poached in tomato sauce with hot green chiles: Here are Butthole Surfers front ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
The Early Word -- Samakmak
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
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November 28, 2008
Reasons to Be Ungrateful: Mumbai, Mall Violence, Parking Tickets
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Blogs
September 3, 2008
And That Little Boy Grew Up to Be George F. Will
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Columns
August 27, 2008
GOP Star Marty Golden Doles Out Big Bucks to his Family Catering Hall
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Blogs
June 4, 2008
Our Man Throws Down Against Dr. John
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2007
Our Man Sietsema: 'Oh, Blessed Fusion!'
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Blogs
August 13, 2007
Moonlighting at the Hardware Store
Sizzle sizzle goes the cast-iron vessel, as a pair of snails parades across the table, oblivious of the food drama transpiring inches away. We've ordered one of the oddball tajines at Samakmak, the euphonious name of a new Egyptian seafood cafe, recently joining Bahary and Asmak Taama in the ... More >>
Music
August 15, 2006
Spaghetti Eastern
The Lordz, Brooklyn rap-rock's preeminent wiseguys, crank the bass and wax Soprano
Dining
June 20, 2006
Counting Sheep
Peanuts or pine nuts at new New Utrecht Turk Albanian boîte
Dining
September 27, 2005
Amazin' Meze
It's Dippity-Doo-Dah at Dyker Heights Greek Cypriot restaurant
Dining
May 31, 2005
Cheap Chow Now!
100 best and most inexpensive restaurants
Columns
March 29, 2005
Perfect Worlds: Buch Haus
100 best and most inexpensive restaurants
Columns
March 29, 2005
Journey to Norwabia
A culinary trek through Bay Ridge
Dining
January 11, 2005
The Wages of Bistroization
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
NYC Life
September 9, 2003
Wild Life
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
Specials
February 11, 2003
Letters
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
NYC Life
February 4, 2003
Studio in 1940s Building
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
NYC Life
January 28, 2003
Close-up on Bay Ridge
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
Dining
June 25, 2002
Eat Your Peas
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
NYC Life
May 7, 2002
Two-Bedroom Apartment, Pre-War Building
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
Dining
May 30, 2000
Fish and Chips
Moroccan transforms itself into a full-fledged restaurant
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