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Blogs
May 2, 2013
Grading the New Sushi Bar at Lobster Place in Chelsea Market
Lobster Place's uni (sea urchin) was breezy and briny, and got a grade of A-. As part of the current evolution of Chelsea Market, old tenants are grabbing more space and revamping their premises to provide more opportunities for the sale of prepared food. In this connection, seafood distributor an ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2013
Is Häagen-Dazs's New Ice Cream Really Gelato?
Having carved out its formidable niche in the gourmet ice-cream category with such flavors as dulce de leche and bananas foster, Häagen-Dazs has announced that it's expanding its realm and continent-hopping for its newest release, drawing inspiration from across the Atlantic for seven flavors of ge ... More >>
Dining
May 1, 2013
Shanghai Newcomer Full House Brings Back Soup Dumplings
Chinese import
Dining
May 1, 2013
Kajitsu's Rite of Spring
Ancient vegan traditions in Midtown
Blogs
May 1, 2013
New Restaurant Reviews: Soup Dumplings at Full House; Vegan at Kajitsu
Kajitsu's glass noodles On this sunny May Day, our critics single out two new restaurants to usher in the season. In Midtown, Tejal Rao bows her head in favor of the vegan Japanese Buddhist temple cuisine at Kajitsu, while Robert Sietsema slurps up soup dumplings at Full House on the Bowery. Read o ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2013
The 10 Best French Fries in New York City, 2013 Edition
Chicken, Oreos, and even butter, are all fried standards by now, but what beats classic French fries? Crisp, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and dunked in ketchup (or mayonnaise), fries are irresistible, cheap and perfect for sharing, and can be topped with just about anything. Our 10 best picks hig ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2013
Six Miracles of East Village Ungentrification
Miraculously, lunch counter B & H Dairy remains, from the era when its stretch of Second Avenue was known as the Yiddish Broadway. As a tribute to E.V. Grieve, the East Village's chronicler of closure and demolition, we present this collection of foodie landmarks that have remarkably remained open ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2013
We Smoked Weed With Total Slacker at the Olive Garden in Times Square
"Are you excited to be here?" I ask. "I'm, like, fucking cumming in my pants," replies Tucker. It is 8:45pm on a Sunday evening, and I am waiting in a fake Tuscan piazza with the members of Total Slacker (Tucker Rountree, Emily Oppenheimer, Dave Tassy and Zoe Brecher) -- a Brooklyn band who specia ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2013
New Restaurant Reviews: Cafe Cluny, Nightingale 9
Is it summer yet? Not quite. But our dining professionals found themselves in the kind of casually inviting spaces that seem to usher in the warm weather (at least, we hope they will). Robert Sietsema checked in on longtime West Village favorite Cafe Cluny, while Tejal Rao ventured to Carroll Garde ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2013
Meet Sophistafunk, Guy Fieri's Favorite Band
It all started with a phone call. Shortly after Adam Gold's restaurant -- Syracuse's Funk-N-Waffles, a casual joint that offers exactly what it promises in both music and eats -- was featured on the Food Network's Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, he got a call from the show's host, Guy Fieri. Fieri ... More >>
Dining
April 24, 2013
Café Cluny Chooses a Surprising New Chef
Free radical
Dining
April 24, 2013
With Nightingale 9, American-Vietnamese Street Food Comes to Carroll Gardens
The team behind Seersucker and Smith Canteen open a noodle shop
Blogs
April 24, 2013
Korean Naengmyun, Spectacularly Served in a Bowl Made of Ice
Keeping your noodles cold and refreshing The night before last I had the pleasure of dining with Matt Robard, one of the critics who participated in the new Korean Restaurant Guide: New York. This publication of the Korean Food Foundation, an arm of the Korean government, is available as a free pa ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
Cull & Pistol Opens in Chelsea Market; MP Taverna Hits Astoria
Michael Psilakis opened the latest version of MP Taverna in Astoria on Monday. Other outposts of the Greek restaurant have become popular in Roslyn, Long Island, and Irvington, N.Y. Psilakis told Flo Fab that lamb dumplings, a favorite from his original restaurants, and a Greek paella with seafood a ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2013
Food at Barclays Fatty 'Cue is Really, Really Terrible
FiTR has recommended where to eat at outside Barclays Center, but there's a whole host of places to eat inside the arena, too, including many counters and carts offering nachos, hot dogs, hamburgers, and hot wings. More interesting, perhaps, are such Brooklyn foodie favorites as Calexico, L & B Spum ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2013
What's Happening: Earth Day at Edi and the Wolf; Boulud's Dalmore Single-Malt Comes to New York
Monday, April 22 Earth Day at Edi and the Wolf Edi and the Wolf, the Austrian spot on Avenue C, will celebrate Earth Day today with a four-course menu featuring "sustainable springtime ingredients" paired with biodynamic wine producers from Austria. The restaurant promises garlic soup, white asparag ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2013
Watertown Restaurant Strip-T's at the Center of Police Activity
The picture of the restaurant on its Facebook page. If you've been watching the coverage of the Boston bombing on any of the networks, you know the suspected Chechnyan Tsarnaev brothers apparently lived on Willow Street in Watertown. Right around the corner, and front-and-center in many of the liv ... More >>
Dining
April 17, 2013
Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens
A sea worthy clam shack
Dining
April 17, 2013
Richard Kuo Goes His Own Way at Pearl & Ash
A young chef plays with flavors from around the world
Blogs
April 17, 2013
New Restaurant Reviews: Interpretation of Dreams at Pearl & Ash; Outstanding Seafood at Kittery
Spring is ripe with surprises (80 degrees, 40 degrees, you know the drill). This week, our professional eaters explored two curveball restaurants and were pleasantly delighted--though not equally--by each. Tejal Rao appreciated the food at Pearl & Ash more than the dark and noisy space on the Bowery ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2013
La Vie en Szechuan's $7.95 Lunch Special
La Vie en Szechuan's exemplary ma po tofu Midtown now boasts the city's largest concentrations of Sichuan restaurants. Most of these are timid compared to the ones in Flushing, offering little in the way of Sichuan peppercorns or offal, but an agreeable - and often spicy - experience nonetheless. ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2013
Andrew Carmellini's Lafayette Opened on Monday
Andrew Carmellini's new French restaurant, Lafayette, opened on Monday. He tweeted that the bakery opened at noon and dinner service was available at 5:30. Carmellini joined forces with his partners from Locanda Verde and the Dutch, Josh Pickard and Luke Ostrom, to run the bistro. Chef Damon Wise cr ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2013
La Villita Forced to Close in Williamsburg
La Villita, a Mexican bakery on the corner of Grand Street and Bedford Avenue, was forced to close at the end of February after the landlord raised the rent from $5,000 to $10,000. The GW News learned the bakery closed on Feb. 28 after 17 years in business. Owner Alfonso Sosa and his family ran the ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2013
Wylie Dufresne at the Rubin Museum and a Whole New World of Beef
Monday, April 15 French Roast Downtown's 20th Anniversary Celebrate French Roast Downtown's twentieth anniversary with a three-course menu priced at $19.93, the year it opened. Peter Hudson will serve a classic French menu from April 15 to 18 that includes escargots, roasted bone marrow, and moules- ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2013
Literary Festivals With a Side of Fermentation: 5 Great Food Events For This Weekend
Friday, April 12 American Meat Premiere Cinema Village will premiere the Chipotle-sponsored documentary American Meat. The film sheds light on cattle, pig, and poultry production, and explores sustainable alternatives to the usual practices. After the screening a panel of local farmers, chefs, and f ... More >>
Dining
April 10, 2013
Cathedral Is A Haitian House of Worship
A small restaurant shines bright on Church Avenue
Dining
April 10, 2013
What's a Modern Spanish Brasserie?
Dani Garcia brings a touch of avant garde to Gramercy
Blogs
April 10, 2013
The Good, the Bad, and the Tartare at Manzanilla; Pay to Pray at Cathedral
Spring is (finally) in the air and the warm weather seems to be lightening our moods as well as our wardrobes. Did the rising temperatures have the same effect on our critics? Tejal Rao has mixed feelings about Manzanilla in Gramercy, while Robert Sietsema writes a rave for Cathedral in Flatbush. R ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
wd-50 Holds a Reunion for Friends and Family
At 8 p.m., the only clue that something big was happening at wd-50 was the methuselah of champagne that was touring the quietly buzzing room, a six-liter megabottle that was poured at every table. It set the tone for the once-in-a-lifetime reunion of family members--and lucky hangers-on--that was ac ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2013
Boozy Brunch at Lil' Frankie's; L'Apicio Opens Patio for Dinner
L'Apicio will greet the warm weather with its 26-seat outdoor patio. Guests can now dine outside and order new spring-inspired dishes like gnocchi with morel mushrooms, polenta with rabbit cacciatore, and vanilla semifreddo with rhubarb compote. 11 East 1st Street; 212-533-7400
Blogs
April 9, 2013
80/20 Baconburger at Dickson's Farmstand Meats: Scrumptious!
Bulbous, pink, and mottled, Dickson's baconburger I'd popped into Chelsea Market last Saturday to score a lump of guanciale at Buon Italia, when the meat case at Dickson's Farmstand Meats caught my eye - always good to give it a look and see what sorts of products, many of them oddball, are curren ... More >>
Blogs
April 9, 2013
Luna Sur Latin Bistro Opens in Hell's Kitchen; Calexico Comes to the Lower East Side
Luna Sur Latin Bistro opened last week in Hell's Kitchen. The menu features Latin flavors with a mix of Peruvian, Spanish, Mexican, and Cuban dishes like empanadas, tacos, croquettes, and arroz con pollo. The restaurant will host a DJ on the weekends during "Latin Brunch," and a back patio is open t ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2013
Malai Marke's New Snack Kitchen Now Serving Kati Rolls, Chaat, and More Indian Street Food
I love making a quick lunch of hot masala chai and pav bhaji, one of India's finest junk foods. The bread rolls should be generously buttered and deeply browned, ideally served with a super-spicy curried mash that's full of flavor and devoid of nutritional value. Shiva Natarajan's sparse and shiny ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2013
Alchemy, Texas Replaces Ranger Texas Barbecue
Alchemy's rich and black-pepper-dotted prime rib When New York barbecue legend Robert Pearson departed the final location of his Queens establishment, Pearson's Texas BBQ, in 2005, he left it in the hands of his able pitmaster, Angel Domingues, and the new owner, Cenobio Canalizo, both natives of ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2013
Meet Carla Rzeszewski, New York's Queen of Sherry
What comes to mind when you hear sherry, besides the Four Seasons song that maddeningly loops in your head like scratched vinyl? If the answer is a sweet brown drink that grandma likes, allow me to introduce you to New York City's "Queen of Sherry," Carla Rzeszewski. Rzeszewski is a sherry fanatic ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2013
Num Pang Launches a Sandwich Happy Hour
Harold Dieterle's West Village restaurant, Perilla, has launched a Monday night three-course spring menu. The family-stye meal includes dishes like wild rice with eggplant and cherry tomatoes, lamb-stuffed artichoke, and bay leaf sorbet. Make a reservation for $34 a person. 9 Jones Street; 212-929-6 ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2013
New Restaurant Reviews: Three Letters Asks 'Parlez-Vous Brooklyn?'; Cata Serves Sublime Paella
This week, our critics were equally charmed by a petite French bistro and a bustling Bowery tapas joint. Robert Sietsema dug into a mussels poutine at Three Letters in Clinton Hill, while Tejal Rao scooped up hearty bites of paella at Cata on the Lower East Side. Will the professionals go back for ... More >>
Dining
April 3, 2013
Clinton Hill's Three Letters Tries to Redefine the Brooklyn Bistro
French twist
Dining
April 3, 2013
Cata's Rustic Spanish Flavors Are Spot-on
Excellent tapas on Bowery
Blogs
April 3, 2013
Wylie Dufresne Opens Alder in East Village; Desnuda Opens in South Williamsburg
Wylie Dufresne has caused quite a stir with the opening of Alder, his new restaurant on Second Avenue. The hotspot opened last Thursday and was the newest East Village restaurant to warrant waiting lines around the block. Dufresne told Flo Fab, "It's not meant to be a destination, like wd-50." Inste ... More >>
Blogs
April 2, 2013
If You Were Only Allowed Five Unhealthy Foods...
What would they be? It would be extremely difficult for me to whittle the choices down to just five, but let's play this sadistic little game, for the hell of it. Here come my death-defying picks: *Vanilla ice cream. Even from a fast-food chain. I'd add lots and lots of rainbow sprinkles, but tha ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2013
Our 10 Best Upper West Side Restaurants
Topped with bacon, slaw, and fried green tomatoes and sided with cheese grits, the fried chicken biscuit sandwich at Jacob's Pickles A score of years ago the Upper West Side was known as one of the worst dining neighborhoods in the city. Well, what happened? You may trace the transformation back t ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2013
Very Local Seaweed and Fresh Rabbit Blood at Restaurant '13
Can an ingredient be too local? The gelatinous seaweed served at New York's newest pop-up restaurant is scraped each morning from the bottom of the Staten Island Ferry and strewn over sheets of fried kale. It's slippery stuff and it tastes dangerous, like it could kill you. It just might. For the p ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2013
5 Best Weekend Food Events
Friday, March 29 Founders Beer and Field Trip Beef Jerky Tasting Head to Nolita Mart and Espresso Bar to sip Founders Brewing Co.'s All Day IPA and nosh on Field Trip beef jerky from 6 to 8 p.m. And bring friends, because this tasting is free. 156 Mott Street
Blogs
March 29, 2013
Is There a Pastry Chef in the House?
I've been tasting a lot of desserts lately that are sloppy and off-key, that don't quite make sense, that look and taste lazy or rushed. In each case, the kitchen lacked a pastry chef. Dessert is an essential part of a great restaurant meal, but too many kitchens in New York seem to be operating w ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2013
Sugar and Plumm Opens in West Village; Attaboy Takes Over Old Milk and Honey Space
Sugar and Plumm is opening its second location today on Bleecker Street. The original location on the Upper West Side is known for its French macarons, and the downtown outpost will also serve the various flavors: salted caramel, pistachio, rosewater, and passionfruit. Other pastries like croissants ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2013
New Bacon-Flavored Condoms Are Already Out of Stock
The food-novelty machine that is J&D's has released a new product for bacon lovers who are determined to ruin bacon once and for all for everyone. Bacon condoms, available just in time for April Fool's Day and suspiciously already out of stock, come in packs of three, loaded with the company's own w ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2013
New Restaurant Reviews: Share the Spreads at El Omda; Red Gravy Lays It on Thick
This week, our professional eaters sought out plates that reminded them of home -- if not theirs, then someone else's. In Astoria, Robert Sietsema enjoyed an Egyptian feast at El Omda, while Tejal Rao sopped up the sauce at Red Gravy in Brooklyn Heights. How did our critics rate their Middle Easte ... More >>
Blogs
March 27, 2013
Empire State of Wine: 10 Great Bottles from the Finger Lakes and Niagara Escarpment
As spring continued dragging her feet last week, New Yorkers traipsed through snow flurries to drink wine. Nothing new there, except that the second annual NY Drinks NY was in town, offering imbibers a taste of local wines. I focused my efforts on the Finger Lakes and Niagara Escarpment, two regions ... More >>
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March 27, 2013
STRANGE BREW
Sample spring's best beers
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