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Ethnic and Regional Cuisines

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    The Early Word: Taka Taka

    Lauren ShockeyChipotle sauce adds a Mexican kick to a soft shell crab roll​ Mexican sushi and Japanese tacos: the ultimate in fusion food, right? That's the thinking at Taka Taka (330 West Broadway, 212-966-8252), a new Japanese-Mexican fusion spot located in Soho. We were a bit skeptical ab ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 28, 2011

    Osteria Cotta Boots Up

    A new osteria gives you a little bit of a lot of Italy

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Linguine Alle Vongole at Osteria Cotta, Dish No. 23

    ​The world's cuisines possess too few bitter dishes -- and clams with linguine in white sauce is one of the best.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Ask the Critics: Where Can I Try Vegetarian/Halal Korean Food?

    Savagecorp / Flickr​Rob Z. Asks: I am fascinated by Korean food due to watching Korean dramas. I have made a dish or two at home but would love to try out an actual restaurant. I don't eat non-halal food but will eat fish and everything else that is not meat. And would love if it is cheap a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Make Trattoria Dell'Arte's Late-Night Risotto Radicchio Mascarpone, Like Chef Marino Rosato

    Trattoria Dell'Arte's Risotto Radicchio Mascarpone​It seems like everyone stays up -- and eats out -- late these days. The latest restaurant to add a special late-night menu is Trattoria Dell'Arte. Chef Marino Rosato suggests night owls end their evening (especially if it was a particularly ro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    Indian Creperie Now Selling Dosas, Uttapams, and Other Carbolicious South Indian Snacks

    Lauren ShockeyVada, a/k/a fried rice doughnuts with curry leaves and chiles, at Indian Creperie​Inexpensive Indian eats are relatively plentiful at the intersection of Bleecker and MacDougal Streets, with the Kati Roll Company, Thelewala, and Masala Times offering rolls, chaats, and curries. ... More >>

  • Dining

    August 24, 2011

    Qi Bangkok Eatery: The Thais That Bind

    Pichet Ong looks homeward with his latest restaurant

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    KalBQ Offers Korean Tacos...When You Don't Want Atomic Wings

    Lauren ShockeyKalBQ's kimchi taco​We're big fans of multi-functional spaces. Why specialize in one type of service or food when you can do multiple ones? Banh Mi Saigon Bakery, for example - who doesn't want a jewelry store and a Vietnamese sandwich shop? So when we heard about KalBQ, a new ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Marja Vongerichten Talks Kimchi Chronicles

    RodaleMore than just kimchi​Until now, Jean-Georges was the Vongerichten with the culinary clout, but his wife Marja is getting into the fray with her new PBS television show and cookbook, the Kimchi Chronicles. The New York Daily News profiles her today, learning about how her desire for Kor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    What's Happening This Week: Summer Cocktail Pairing; Free Korean Food

    As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Marc Forgione with Bryan Miller 92nd Street Y in Tribeca Monday, July 25 at noon Former New York Times restaurant critic and food writer Bryan Miller interviews Iro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2011

    Dish No. 83: Tempura Green Bean Fries at Bento Burger

    Lauren ShockeyFreedom beans just doesn't have the same ring...​Green bean fries are kind of amazing. Like, are you trying to justify your consumption of fried fare by throwing a little greenery into the mix? Because, honestly, you might as well be eating potatoes. And the tempura green bean ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Ask the Critics: Where Can I Eat Lots of Delicious Poutine?

    sashamd/flickrPoutine. Better than black tar heroin. ​ Stephanie B. Asks: I love poutine. Loooooove poutine. Probably because I'm Canadian. Where can I get some good poutine in the city? Dear Stephanie: I saved this question for the day my Monument Lane review came out, because that rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Our 10 Best Vietnamese Restaurants

    Lauren ShockeyBun cha Ha Noi at Pho Bang​Alas, New York City isn't one of the great Vietnamese culinary capitals of the world. Which is too bad, because at least in our minds, Vietnamese cuisine is one of the best on the globe. But you can still find some decent Viet grub. You just have to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Battle of the Brownstone Brooklyn Falafel: Darna v. Kulushkät

    Rebecca MarxDarna's falafel.​ A few months ago, Darna chose to announce its imminent arrival in Cobble Hill with a rather intimate paean to its signature product. Posted on the storefront window, it read, in part: "...soft on the inside yet firm sexy brown on the inside. Being with you my lov ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Vietnamese Restaurants

    Lauren ShockeyBaoguette Café offers a tasty chicken and sausage dish over rice, but is the restaurant good enough to make it into the top 10?​While we do have plenty of banh mi peddlers, New York City isn't an enclave for Vietnamese expat communities, so it doesn't possess a bounty of full-sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Fancy New Wall Street Duane Reade Does Hair and Nails

    ​Tomorrow, Duane Reade will open a new location at 40 Wall Street, and to cater to the business types who are expected to shop there, the store will feature a hair salon, a nail bar, a pharmacy with a doctor on-hand, a sushi bar, a juice bar, and a stock ticker. At 22,000 square feet, the stor ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 22, 2011

    Brushstroke: The Feast From the East

    David Bouley looks to the land of the rising nigiri

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Ask the Critics: What Makes My Spicy Tuna Roll Spicy?

    flickr/Calgary ReviewsFind out what's in that sauce​Holly G. Asks: How do you make the spicy mayonnaise that comes in spicy tuna rolls? Is it just mayo and Sriracha? Can you find out what's in it? Dear Holly: While spicy tuna rolls aren't classic sushi offerings, there's no question that th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Del Posto Cook and Travel Writer Claire Handleman On The Joys of Eating In Thailand (Part 2)

    ​ Yesterday we talked to Claire Handleman, who cooks at Del Posto and blogs about her constant travels at Passport to Eat, about how she fell in love with Thai cuisine and the best papaya salad she's ever eaten. Today, she talks about fine dining in Bangkok, Del Posto's Italian cuisine and whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Our 10 Best Bushwick Restaurants

    ​Plenty of fleecy white ricotta nicely peppered, pickled artichokes, and mozzarella on a perfect coal-fired crust, from Verde Coal Oven. Bushwick is potentially one of Brooklyn's best dining destinations. With its large Latin population, the cuisines of the Spanish diaspora are well represe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Sorry Kids, No Olive Oil Gelato This Year at the GelOTTO Cart

    Lauren ShockeyFind the GelOTTO cart in Washington Square Park​It's Memorial Day Weekend, which means frozen treats season is officially in business. Like every summer, the GelOTTO Cart will be parked in Washington Square Park, selling gelati from Mario Batali's nearby OTTO. But this year, do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2011

    Woo Lae Oak Is Closing After 12 Years

    ​Woo Lae Oak is the latest restaurant to fall victim to lease renegotiation: after 12 years at 148 Mercer Street, the upscale Korean restaurant will close its doors at the end of May.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Battle of the Seventh Avenue South Pistachio Gelati: Love Gelato vs. L'Arte del Gelato

    Lauren ShockeyCiao down, throw down!​Frozen treats are on the mind now that the weather has turned following our endless winter. Gelato has dominated the cold sweets market in New York City (related: why are there no good ice cream parlors in this city?), and one of the most recent additions ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Five Great Cheap Mexican Dishes To Eat Now

    ​Don't get the delicious red guajillo chile sauce on your sleeve. It will never wash out. Ever since immigration from southern Mexico began in the 1980s due to prolonged drought, Mexican food around here has been getting better and better, as more fresh ingredients have been imported, and ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Zio Ristorante to Bring More Mediterranean to Flatiron Next Week

    Max and partners (Darren Berman and Roberto Manfe).​The Flatiron district is getting more Mediterranean in the form of Zio Ristorante (17 West 19th Street), opening late next week.

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Where Can I Get Oaxacan Food in NYC?

    ​Don't expect to find any Oaxacan food here. The name? A total sham! Lauren S. asks: Where can I get Oaxacan food in New York City? Dear Lauren: This question always makes me sad. In brief, there is no Oaxacan food in Gotham. I'm not really sure why, since it would be easy enough for someon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    Battle of the Paneer Kati Rolls: Kati Roll Co. v. Thelewala

    Rebecca MarxKati rolls: so very, very beige.​ Over the past few years, the kati roll has gained quite a bit of traction in Manhattan. A street food that originated in Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, the roll has evolved over the years from a paratha wrapped around a k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Minamoto Kitchoan's Wonderful Wagashi

    Rebecca Marx​ This week, we've decided to stray far from the all-American cookies, cakes, and ice cream we so love and venture instead to Minamoto Kitchoan, one of the city's foremost purveyors of wagashi, or traditional Japanese pastry.

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Coppelia's Pichet Ong Reveals Plans for a New Thai Restaurant and Explains Why He Has Awesome Aprons

    Photo courtesy Pichet OngPichet Ong, Master of International Desserts​Pichet Ong is a busy man, lending his culinary cred to restaurants all over town. His most recent venture is creating the pastry options at Coppelia (207 West 14th Street, 212-858-5001), Julian Medina's new Cuban restaurant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2011

    Battle of the Upscale, Pre-Packaged Sushi: Dean & DeLuca v. the Lobster Place

    Rebecca MarxDean & Deluca's sushi and nigiri assortment.​ New York abounds with pre-packaged sushi, and a lot of it sucks. But while dry rice and fish of questionable origin and freshness are often the order of the day (particularly if you're stupid enough to buy your sushi at Duane Reade), w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    V-Nam Café: New Competitor Joins E.V. Beef Sandwich Fray

    ​Plenty of tender marinated beef in V-Nam's banh mi bo. Roast beef sandwiches have become increasingly popular over the last couple of years. On one hand, there's the traditional Italian roast beef hero as espoused by This Little Piggy Had Roast Beef, Defonte's Sandwich Shop, and several more ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Bobo Chef Patrick Connolly Celebrates Irish Heritage and Drinks Swiss Chard Juice

    Adrienne GrunwaldPatrick Connolly can't get behind green beer.​ Happy St. Patrick's Day! The one day of the year when it's appropriate to drink green beer and start imbibing at 9 a.m. To learn more about the cuisine from the land of limericks and leprechauns, we called up Irish-American chef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    The Early Word: Stellina Is a Gelato Fantasia

    Rebecca Marx​ Yesterday, we discovered that Stellina had finally opened. Earlier today, we stopped by the bakery café, which is the younger sibling of Sorella next door. We'd been hearing for months that its owners, Emma Hearst and Sarah Krathen, were planning to do all sorts of wonder ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Stellina Is Open, And Here's the Menu

    Rebecca Marx​After a short delay, Stellina opened this morning for business. Staff at the bakery, located at 95 Allen Street next door to its sister restaurant Sorella, were just getting set up when we stopped by earlier. Nothing was available for take-out, but they gave us a menu, and given w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Danji's Hooni Kim on Fusing French and Korean Culinary Traditions and Foraging in Central Park

    Photo courtesy Hooni KimWhere does the chef feast? Central Park, of course!​David Chang might be the best-known chef in New York City with Korean blood, but Hooni Kim is hoping that'll soon change. He's just opened Danji, a tiny restaurant serving a menu of traditional and modern small plates ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 9, 2011

    Cocoron--On the LES in Noodle York City

    Prepare to slurp some soba on Delancey Street

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Nine Things You Probably Wouldn't Want to Eat At Guy Fieri's Restaurant Tex Wasabi's

    sfgate.com​We're sick of Guy Fieri (real name: Guy Ramsay Ferry). The television personality manufactured on the second season of "The Next Food Network Star" might double as a Barnum & Bailey clown. Yet he is now one of the country's most recognizable celebrity chefs. If you want to see how ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    No. 15: Bun Bo Hue at Thanh Da

    ​The bun bo Hue at Thanh Da presents a dark tempest of a beef broth. Let's enumerate the ways bun bo Hue -- named after the city of Hue (pronounced "Way") in Central Vietnam -- differs from the signature noodle soup of Saigon, pho (pronounced "FFFah"). First off, the noodles are wheat instead ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2011

    Bun Rieu at Thanh Da

    Lauren ShockeyThanh Da's Bun Rieu​We've been eating a lot of Vietnamese food recently (could we be prepping for a 10 Best? Oh, maybe), and were excited when we saw bun rieu on the menu at Thanh Da. As we've noted in the past, the Sunset Park restaurant does a great bun bo Hue, the spicy beef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2011

    Here's a Taste of the New Menus at Convivio and Alto

    Melissa Hom/ConvivioConvivio​A week after announcing his replacements for Michael White at Alto and Convivio, Chris Cannon has released a few details about what they'll be cooking.

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2011

    No. 6: Sandwich #1 at Saigon Banh Mi Bakery

    ​This jam-packed sandwich will set you back only $3.75. Saigon Banh Mi Bakery started out in a little stall under the Manhattan bridge, then hopscotched, first to the southeast corner of Mott and Grand streets (where it cowered behind a jewelery store), then recently leaped over Grand and es ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    The Early Word: Yuba

    Lauren Shockey​Yuba is the Japanese word for tofu skin, which is the thin layer of film that occurs when making tofu as the curding vat of soymilk cools down. While working at Masa, chefs George Ruan and Jack Wei fell in love with the yuba that was flown in daily from Japan, and so they named ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Sami Dosa Cart's Mysore Masala Dosa

    Rebecca Marx​ The dish pictured above is one of very few good reasons we can think of to go outside in February.

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2011

    Battle of the Dishes: Vegetarian Banh Mi Brawl

    Victoria BekiempisSaigon's version, with rubber band "extra" removed.​ Banh mi has quite a rep -- for being a gutbuster on the mean streets of Saigon and New York. Pickled carrot and radish slivers, cilantro, cucumber slices, pâté, grilled meat, and occasionally cheese burst out of a French ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Our 10 Best Things to Eat in Manhattan's Chinatown

    ​In A-Wah's Hong Kong-style wonton lo mein, the noodles are cooked al dente, and the broth is served on the side. The amazing thing about Manhattan's Chinatown, no matter how it ebbs and flows, no matter how many restaurants come and go: It's always been a bastion of excellent cheap eats. Th ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 26, 2011

    Cholulita Sells Smut Under the J Tracks

    Corn smut, that is. A Bed-Stuy bodega's authentic Pueblan food.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Savoy Will Start Serving a Ton of Cassoulet Next Week

    ​On the heels of last weekend's Cassoulet Cook-Off comes the welcome news that more is on the way, courtesy of Savoy.

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Love Gelato Will Soon Unveil Frozen Treats in Icy Weather

    myrecipes.comI scream, you scream, we all scream for gelato.​Temperatures may be dropping below zero outside, but die-hard gelato fans know that it's never too cold for the frozen treat. Or at least that's what the owners behind Love Gelato, the newest addition to the city's growing roster of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2011

    National Chinese Restaurant Awards Ceremony Slights New York

    ​This obscure restaurant near the corner of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue -- which advertises a combination of Sichuan and Vietnamese food -- was declared one of the best Chinese restaurants in the country in the inscrutable "Top Chefs & Owners" category. This past Sunday, correspondent Bil ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 12, 2011

    Caliu Thinks Small

    Small plates, that is. A new West Village tapas bar.

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