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Courses will traipse through the fusion years with New Zealand chef Peter Gordon, the bistronomy (bistro) era with French chef Yves Camdeborde, and the farm-to-table age with Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli of Frankies Spuntino and Prime Meats...
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One of the numerous pitfalls of loading the Wikipedia homepage is discovering holidays of such obscurity that not even natives of the locale celebrating the occasions are aware of their existence. Such was the case last week when I serendipitously di...
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Later this year, we'll pen our Best of New York issue, our annual love letter to what's great in this town. When that paper hits the streets, you'll find our picks for the very best this city has to offer when it comes to dozens of cuisines, restaura...
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Back Forty is hosting a five day crab feast in honor of the sea's best dancing and singing crustacean.
After a great weekend, the last thing you want to do is take a look at the calendar and realize it's Monday--and the last Monday of summer at th...
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The women behind Grace
Grace O'Malley, explains Danny McDonald--the veteran bar owner behind Swift Hibernian Lounge, Puck Fair, Ulysses' Folk House, Harry's Caf and Steak, The Growler Bites and Brews, and The Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog--is lege...
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In this week's Village Voice, Hannah Palmer Egan detailed the fascinating process behind growing some of the city's best mushrooms. Bradley Hawks headed to the Union Square Greenmarket, where you can find the Bulich fungus every Saturday (to perhaps ...
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Expressing exactly how much the Japanese love beer is not easy, even if their reputation for drinking the stuff is not as established as the Belgians with their beer monks and centuries of brewing history, the Germans with their claim on the world's ...
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When I sat down with Bear chef-owner Natasha Pogrebinsky for this week's chef interview, we talked a lot about her connection to Astoria in Queens. Her first experiences in the U.S. happened not far from where her restaurant sits, and she and her bro...
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Later this year, we'll pen our Best of New York issue, our annual love letter to what's great in this town. When that paper hits the streets, you'll find our picks for the very best this city has to offer when it comes to dozens of cuisines, restaura...
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A selection of the city's favorite food trucks will be on hand for one of the city's best music festivals
Another of the dwindling weekends of summer is upon us. Here's a look at what's in store:Afropunk Fest, Commodore Barry Park, Nassau & Navy S...
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On September 14 and 15, chefs and food experts from all over the world will descend on a trio of Williamsburg venues--the Wythe Hotel, Kinfolk Studios, and Brooklyn Bowl--where they'll serve pancakes, chat gastronomy, team up for a cookout, and parti...
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In this week's Village Voice, Mercer Kitchen Chef de Cuisine Christopher Beischer pontificates on how he uses Hudson Valley fungus in the kitchen, and why he prefers greenmarket mushrooms to those available from big purveyors.
Now, Beischer shares ...
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But because we very rarely find ourselves in that area--because really, who does?--we were pleased to learn that as of yesterday, there's a second outpost of Tabata at 557 Eighth Avenue, and this one is located close enough to Penn Station that you c...
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Sit long enough at the bar at The Grand, a three-month-old joint on Grand Street in Williamsburg, and you'll begin to notice that owners Eric "The Red" Austin and Jason Kleinmann know just about everyone coming through the door. And it's not just the...
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Amid Ecuadorian restaurants and laundromats that dot Stockholm Street and Irving Avenue, a Bushwick thoroughfare that has recently seen an uptick in new spots like Fritzl's Lunch Box and Verde Coal Oven Pizza, sits the Santa Ana Deli. Colorful blanke...
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Later this year, we'll pen our Best of New York issue, our annual love letter to what's great in this town. When that paper hits the streets, you'll find our picks for the very best this city has to offer when it comes to dozens of cuisines, restaura...
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I feel sad about this, but we don't live in Maui, and there is no endless summer in our future (at least the immediate future--who knows about the long term with global warming). And even though we New Yorkers generally get to enjoy warm days until l...
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Half-priced drinks during happy hour at Destination Bar & Grill help fill this table
If the almost-blue moon sighting brought out the animal in you--or if it was just too bright to sleep--relaxing with a cheap drink might help bring you back down ...
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So, says a manager, "we'd love to be destination," a prospect that seems likelier when 3rd Ward classes resume a more robust schedule in the fall: In the dog days of summer, the building and neighborhood seemed sleepy when we stopped by on a week nig...
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In part one of my interview with Bear chef-owner Natasha Pogrebinsky, she talked about her life as a Ukrainian refugee and what she's trying to accomplish at her Astoria restaurant. Here in part two, she divulges a guilty pleasure, talks about the be...
