This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema unearths authentic Taiwanese in Bay Ridge, of all places, at the lavishly named Island of Taiwan Restaurant; while Sarah DiGregorio makes a small mess of her meal at Bia Garden.
Pete Wells finds that The Standard Grill is “full of small oddities,” but still manages to, “against the odds, add up to a worthwhile restaurant.”
[NY Times]
Ryan Sutton is unimpressed with the relocated Aureole, where “[Chef] Christopher Lee takes excellent ingredients and manipulates the flavor out of them.”
[Bloomberg]
Adam Platt finds himself in a “gastronomic galaxy far, far away” at SHO Shaun Hergatt, where “everything feels stuffy and slightly passe,” but “this is not such a bad thing.”
[NY Magazine]
Jay Cheshes discovers “serious food” at Allen & Delancey, where Ryan Skeen “likes to play with extremes of temperature and texture… without resorting to molecular trickery.”
[TONY]
Gael Greene never went to Florent, but at Gansevoort Cafe 69, which has taken over the space, she urges “a little thought go into the erratic pricing.”
[Insatiable Critic]
Alan Richman likes the hot dogs at Bark Hot Dogs, where the dogs boast a “terrific snap to the casing,” but they won’t completely convert him from dirty-water dogs.
[GQ @ men.style]