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10 Best Restaurants for Vegetarian Food in New York (Even if You're Not a Vegetarian!), 2013 Edition

There are plenty of vegetarian-friendly restaurants in New York. Some deal in chewy gluten strips and meat facsimiles, others turn out raw foods and seed pastes, but there are plenty of places where you don't need to be a devotee to enjoy the food. Go for a meatless meal at these restaurants for a ... More >>

Ordering at Roberta's: Pick Any Pizza, Be Cautious About Dessert

By now, everyone's heard of Roberta's Pizza in Bushwick. Even the Clintons stopped by for a bite last September. The pizzas, made in a wood-burning oven, feature delectable toppings like house-made pork sausage, herbs grown in the restaurant's rooftop garden, and quality cheeses like tallegio and cr ... More >>

L'Apicio Hosts Your East Village Prom Night

The nabe gets a new Italian outpost

La Promenade des Anglais: France Gets Loud

Alain Allegretti seasons his new restaurant with noise

Vegan Pasta Alla Carbonara? Apparently, It Does Exist

Are looks deceiving? ​Few foods remain as shrouded in mystery as pasta alla carbonara.The plate -- traditionally a rib-sticking combo of pasta, egg yolk, cream, pancetta, and parmigiano-reggiano -- has several origin myths. 

The Wild and Wacky Flavors of Laboratorio del Gelato

​Beet is one of the stranger new flavors at Laboratorio del Gelato. Now that Laboratorio is in its new digs on Houston Street, steps away from Katz's Deli, we can realize just how wonderful their oddest flavors can be. In the old place on Orchard, maybe there were plenty of off-the-wall sel ... More >>

Let the Madness Begin: We Eat Our First Ramps of the Season

Chantal MartineauCiano's ramped-up gnocchi.​ A number of restaurants in the city are getting a jump on the ramp madness that overtakes New York each year. Not to contribute to the mania, but we're happy to report that at least one of these early ramp dishes has made its way into our belly.

Our 10 Best In-Store Dining Experiences

Robert SietsemaIkea: Good for cheap furniture and cheap food, like this meatball plate.​ Shopping can be an exhausting activity, and not just for one's wallet. Which is why it's so great when stores have on-site restaurants and cafés. Instant refueling to induce more shopping! So for this ... More >>

Lupa: Another Look at Mario Batali's Roman Restaurant

​The bavette cacio e pepe is killer at Lupa. When Lupa opened on October 1, 1999, it was the third restaurant for Mario Batali, and the second he'd started with partner Joseph Bastianich, following closely on the heels of Babbo. But Lupa was different.

Make Casa Lever's Risotto alla Milanese con Ossobuco, Like Chef Mario Danieli

Risotto alla Milanese con Ossobuco​ Casa Lever in the Lever House building opened about a year ago, a venture of the Sant Ambroeus restaurant group. There's modern art on the walls and traditional Milanese-inspired dishes on the menu. Executive chef Mario Danieli shares the recipe for one of h ... More >>

Osteria Morini: Early Reactions

Eater NY​This Tuesday night was a busy one for the newly opened Osteria Morini. Chef Michael White's parents, restaurant critics, friends of the chef, and Anne Burrell were all spotted in the dining room. While everyone was nestled inside with warm plates of sweetbread and duck heart ragu, we ... More >>

Timi's Gelateria Is Now Open on St. Marks Place

​To everyone coping with the sci-fi frozen dessert void created by the recent closure of Lulu & Mooky's, take heart: Timi's Gelateria opened today on St. Marks Place. And though it isn't offering ice cream birthed with liquid nitrogen, it is pushing gelato made by robots.

Chef Massimo Bottura of Italy's Francescana Spotted Bartending in Little Italy

Massimo Bottura​Today marked the last day of Identità NY, the fancy Italian food fest held at Eataly over the past three days, where 11 of the world's most acclaimed Italian chefs were invited to cook. The event culminated in an 11-course 60-person $400 meal last night at Manzo Ristorante. On ... More >>

Michael White's Osteria Morini to Open on Monday

Michael White touches down in Soho on Monday.​Between the opening of Eataly, Del Posto's four-star Times review, and mounting anticipation about Porsena, Italian food is having quite a busy autumn. On Monday, Michael White will add to the excitement when he opens Osteria Morini, his trattoria ... More >>

Olio Pizza e Piu and Campo de' Fiori Dish Up the Pies

We chew our way through two new pizza joints

Buttermilk Channel's Brown Butter, Corn, and Mushroom Linguine

​Carroll Gardens' Buttermilk Channel has an entire menu dedicated to meatless dishes, so it's not surprising to find fine vegetarian fare at the restaurant. What is surprising, though, is just how extraordinarily delicious this simple plate of pasta manages to be.

Rose Gray, of London's River Cafe, Has Died

Andrew Crowley/TelegraphThe River Cafe's Rose Gray​ Rose Gray, the co-founder of London's pioneering River Cafe and co-author of the equally influential River Cafe Cookbook, died of cancer yesterday at the age of 71, the Guardian reports. The River Cafe, which Gray opened with Ruth Rogers in 1 ... More >>

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Is Freekeh the Next Big Grain?

MlleNoelle.wordpress.comWill chefs get freekeh fever?​ Contained within the Times' glowing review of the Northern Spy Food Company is a mention of the restaurant's risotto, which is made from freekeh, a roasted green wheat. The grain, combined with the risotto's butter and mascarpone, earns th ... More >>

Recipe: Make Antonio Prontelli's Venison Stew With Chestnuts and Dried Apricots & Mascarpone Polenta

Chef Antonio Prontelli gets his game on.​Seems like everyone is getting into game these days. It's wild, lean, and full of flavor. But cooking it isn't exactly a no-brainer -- the risk of ending up with a tough hunk of meat is high. Chef Antonio Prontelli of Rock Center Cafe avoids this proble ... More >>

Missy Robbins on the Opening of A Voce Columbus

​When A Voce Columbus opens tomorrow night, it will make Missy Robbins technically twice as busy as she's been for the past year. Robbins will be traversing the great uptown-downtown divide as the executive chef of both A Voce Columbus and A Voce Madison, overseeing two kitchens and two differ ... More >>

Recipe: Make Cesare Casella's Insalata di Uova e Carne Secca del Pontormo

​Cesare Casella of Salumeria Rosi Parmacotto shares his recipe for Insalata di Uova e Carne Secca del Pontormo, a signature dish at the salumeria/restaurant that has been a diners' favorite since its opening. "This salad is popular because it's simple, but has so much flavor," says Casella. " ... More >>

CSA Challenge--Young Garlic, Green Garlic, Greens

We recently joined the Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), and have been enjoying the challenge of figuring out what we want to eat based on what we have, instead the other way around. Right now, we have greens, greens, more greens and garlic. We pulled out the garlic ... More >>

What's Happening This Week--Learn To Cure Your Own Meat & Take the Downtown Chocolate Tour

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Tom Standage, business editor at The Economist and author of An Edible History of Humanity recently told Gourmet how he came up with the idea for his book: "Whe ... More >>

Bryan Calvert's Beet Risotto

Okay, we've got one last recipe from James' Bryan Calvert (pictured at left) that could be part of a Valentine's meal, and then that's last you'll hear from us about the holiday.Calvert, who says he "always thinks of risotto as something really homey and personal," has a Beet Risotto with Goat Chees ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced

The semifinalists for the illustrious James Beard awards have been announced, with a quite a few hometown favorites in the lot, including Dan Barber and Tom Colicchio in the the Outstanding Chef category; Babba and Jean George for Outstanding Restaurant;  Corton, Momofuku Ko, and Scarpetta for ... More >>

Our Man Sietsema Suggests Red Sauce

Like Lady and the TrampThis week, Our Man Sietsema is in Dyker Heights at Colandrea New Corner Restaurant, which is not new at all, having been founded in 1939. We gather that it's the sort of place that's decorated in the flamboyant style of old Italian aunties--all bad oil paintings and fake clas ... More >>

The Early Word -- Company, or is it Co.?

King among bread bakers, Jim Lahey was a co-founder of Sullivan Street Bakery, but, apparently, he always longed to make pizza. You can get an excellent slice of pizza at the bakery, but it comes in big rectangular sheets (potato, mushroom, or the fabled pizza bianca), and is served at roo ... More >>

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Leave the Gun, Take the Marinara

Umbertos moves its tasty crustaceans and shellfish to the Bronx

Where's Lardo?

East Village Roman attempts to answer the perpetual question

Love Celery

Baby 'chokes and pea shoots at new Prospect Heights pizzeria

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