Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Brooklyn
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Sukh
I’m a bit aggressive when it comes to picking a restaurant. After all, I’m not just eating for me, I’m eating for you: my adoring public! So on Friday night, when we met our friends Jeremy and Jason for dinner, I found myself in an extraordinary new role: passive restaurant goer. That’s right, Jason picked…
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Pasta Night
I first met Renato Poliafito on April 22nd, 2009. I know that because I wrote a post about it when my friend Josh and I trekked out to Red Hook to visit the beloved bakery, Baked, that he ran with his pal Matt Lewis. We immediately hit it off: not just because we both love…
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French Louie
It’s funny how your neighborhood becomes the lens through which you see the New York restaurant scene. When it’s twelve degrees outside and wind is slapping your face like Joan Crawford in “Mommy Dearest,” are you really going to trek to the Upper East Side from Brooklyn to check out a new two-star bistro? Or…
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Rucola
Every neighborhood needs a Rucola. We’re very lucky here in Boerum Hill because our Rucola is Rucola.
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Ruta Oaxaca Mexican Cuisine
I don’t root for sports teams, but I do root for restaurants. When Ruta Oaxaca Mexican Cuisine opened in our neighborhood (Boerum Hill) a few months ago, I was jazzed that we were getting not just a widely-praised Mexican restaurant, but one that specialized in Oaxacan cuisine. We were in Oaxaca last year and the…
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Bar Bête
When I went on Watch What Happens Live to promote my novel Food Person, I was told that Andy would be asking me one and only one question: “What’s the book about?”
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Kellogg’s Diner
There’s something very appealing about a diner with unnecessarily good food. I grew up going to diners — specifically the East Bay Diner (RIP) in Oceanside, Long Island — and the Denver omelettes and French toast were almost besides the point. You go to diners for the convenience, the lack of pretentiousness, the camaraderie. Kellogg’s…
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F&F Restaurant and Bar
Would you believe me if I told you that one of my favorite restaurants in New York is a pizzeria? In the city that brought us Franny’s (RIP) and Roberta’s (still going), it shouldn’t be such a revelation. But for outsiders visiting the Big Apple, it may be hard to comprehend that a place that…
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Café Mars
[From the 8/28/23 newsletter] On Saturday night, we went to a hot new restaurant, Cafe Mars, in Gowanus with our pals Mark and Diana. I first heard about Café Mars when Helen Rosner wrote about it in The New Yorker. The dish that got me hooked was this starter of Negroni jello shots with a…
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Red Hook Lobster Pound
[From the 3/14/24 newsletter] Yesterday, I took a walk to Red Hook to pick up some plants for our front porch (more on that in a sec) and did a quick lunch detour to the Red Hook Lobster Pound. One of my favorite things about living in New York again is that you can stroll…
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