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  • 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 >>

  • Dining

    March 27, 2013

    Middle East Feast at El Omda

    Morocco has a hand in this Egyptian menu

  • Dining

    March 27, 2013

    Saul Bolton's Red Gravy Hits Atlantic Avenue

    A new meatball-slinging Italian joint

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2013

    Find Serious Meatballs and Sunday Gravy on Atlantic Avenue

    Sunday gravy only sounds like one of those fast, unfussy one-pot dishes. There's the stuffing of the braciole, the mixing and shaping of the meatballs, the browning of the sausages. There's the layering of the stock, amplified with bones and meat, simmered for hours. It's no wonder that many Italian ... 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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 27, 2013

    STRANGE BREW

    Sample spring's best beers

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    Monster Hot Dog Spotted at Union Square

    Find it at Adel's Halal cart on the east side of Union Square. FiTR has expressed more than a passing interest in hot dogs and all their permutations around the city, so when we discover a new one, we can't wait to tell you about it. Stumbling out of the Beth Israel Medical Center at Union Square ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2013

    Mei Yu Spring's Superb Chive Pancake

    The "chives pancake" (it's really more of an empanada, and yes, there are plural chives in there) at Mei Yu Spring, a new restaurant on Catherine Street. Shown broken open with a dab of Sriracha Fifteen years ago new places like Fried Dumpling on Allen Street and Vanessa's on Forsyth revolutionize ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2013

    The 10 Best Wine Stores in Manhattan

    Declaring New York's top ten wine shops proved even harder than counting the city's finest bowls of ramen. The number of high-quality wine retailers at our disposal is an embarrassment of vinous riches, and the abundance of stellar shops forced me to draw up separate lists for Manhattan and Brooklyn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2013

    Eat Your Easter Lamb at DBGB, Clarkson, or Rosemary's

    A traditional Easter meal might include lamb, spring vegetables, glazed ham, and hard-boiled eggs. Celebrate the holiday by dining out for brunch or dinner with one of these set menus, all of which will satisfy seasonal cravings. DBGB Daniel Boulud's downtown eatery will serve its usual brunch menu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    Restaurants at Yotel Will Close; Kefi Closed for a Few Months

    Over the next two weeks, the Times Square outpost of hotel chain Yotel will close its three restaurants, Grub Street reported. DohYo, Terrace, and Four were all run by chef Richard Sandoval and served Latin-Asian cuisine. The restaurants employed 102 people, and also provided room service to hotel g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2013

    Cafe Pistachio Opened in Greenpoint; Fritzl's Lunch Box Opened in Bushwick

    A Williamsburg bar opened earlier this month from Alla Lapushchik, the owner of Post Office, Eater reported. OTB takes its name and theme from racetrack-betting parlors. While some cocktails are classic -- Old Fashioneds and Manhattans -- a "Modern" menu also offers fresh concoctions like a Turkey J ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 20, 2013

    Stock Dividends at Suzume and Ganso

    Two new Brooklyn ramen joints break the mold

  • Dining

    March 20, 2013

    Xixa Shines Bright in Williamsburg

    The duo behind Traif runs a Mexican-ish kitchen

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    Most Ethical NYC Restaurants? There's an App For That

    A few of the city's finer establishments are now getting noticed not only for their outstanding food but for the benefits they offer staff members. The Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), an organization that strives to improve working conditions for food service employees, has released an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    New Restaurant Reviews: Brooklyn Ramen and Parallel-Universe Mexican

    Despite the calendar's promises, New York doesn't seem to know that it's spring. Perhaps our food critics had a feeling that the winter chill would linger in the air, as they both sought out belly-warming comfort food this week. Robert Sietsema slurped up ramen at Suzume and Ganso, while Tejal Rao o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2013

    Pastai Opens in Chelsea; Barn Joo Serves Korean Fried Chicken in Flatiron

    Pastai, the second venture from chef/restaurateur Melissa Daka, will open in Chelsea on Thursday. The restaurant specializes in handmade pasta dishes, but the menu also offers an antipasti bar and small dishes like octopus salad and crostini. For breakfast, there's organic stone-ground polenta with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2013

    Chez Panisse Demolition Will Be Significant, No Opening Date Yet

    No one was hurt when a fire hit Berkeley's Chez Panisse on March 8, but the restaurant's structure was damaged. Early reports suggested the café and restaurant would be closed for only a few weeks of construction, but Alice Waters has posted an update on the restaurant's site with more details, exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    NYC Restaurants and Chefs Nominated for James Beard Foundation Awards

    Some of New York's top restaurants and chefs were honored this morning with James Beard Foundation Award nominations, including April Bloomfield, Danny Bowien, and Michael White for Best Chef. Blue Hill was nominated for Outstanding Restaurant, and David Chang earned an Outstanding Chef nod. All win ... More >>

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