Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Manhattan
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Eel Bar
[From the 3/3/25 Amateur Gourmet Newsletter] I met up with Craig at Eel Bar on the Lower East Side and it was such a buzzy, youthful spot. We felt like old men, even though Craig looks half his age in this picture: The food at Eel Bar was truly excellent. Highlights for me were the…
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Bangkok Supper Club
[From the 3/20/25 Amateur Gourmet Newsletter] On Tuesday we went with our friends Henry and Chris to Bangkok Supper Club in the West Village. The food was so good! Zippy and extremely flavorful. The highlights were these chicken wings that had an electric citric acid-like powder on them: The pork jowl that came on garlic…
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Superiority Burger
[From the 6/19/25 newsletter] On Monday night, I had a reading at an event called Wine and Pine (done in collaboration with Chardongay) that turned out to be a lot of fun. Beforehand, Craig and I met up with our pal Chris for dinner at Superiority Burger in the East Village: Superiority Burger is one…
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Via Carota
[From the 7/11/25 newsletter] Just like asparagus has a season, so does eating out at restaurants and that season is now. Sure, it’s lovely to walk into a little French bistro on a snowy day in the dead of winter, but it’s also lovely to cook soup at home in the dead of winter. Not…
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Fedora
[From the 7/21/25 newsletter] We went with our friends Chris and Lance to the newly revamped Fedora on Friday night and had a lot of fun. I’ve been trying to drink less since my Parkinson’s diagnosis, but my doctor says I can drink “moderately,” so when everyone ordered the signature martini, I didn’t want to…
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Cafe Luxembourg
[From the 7/24/25 newsletter] Last night we joined our pals Andy and Jenny Rosenstrach for a star-studded dinner at Café Luxembourg. Now only was Roger Bart from The Producers sitting behind Jenny, but Nathan Lane was sitting behind me and Craig! I’d wanted to go to Café Luxembourg since I read about it in Keith…
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The View
[From the 7/31/25 newsletter] On Monday, I met up with my old pal and roommate (and first season Amateur Gourmet cast member) Lauren at The View, the newly refurbished, Danny Meyer-owned rotating restaurant at the top of the Marriott Marquis in Midtown. We sat at the bar upstairs and caught up as we rotated all…
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Cecchi’s
[From the 9/8/25 newsletter] We went to Cecchi’s for the first time on Friday night and it was gorgeous inside — the Art Deco, old-school, New Yorky restaurant of your dreams — only, it was so pretty out, we decided to eat on the patio. This weather is so wonderful, I wish I could bottle…
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Win Son Bakery
[From the 9/11/2025 newsletter] I met my pal Diana this morning for breakfast at Win Son Bakery in the East Village. She had the scallion pancake bacon egg and cheese — I named it my #1 restaurant dish of 2023 — but I’m trying to be good about exercising, and that’s a bit of a…
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Penny
[From the 9/18/25 newsletter] Let’s talk about the incredible dinner we had last night at Penny. Craig and I have been meaning to try Penny forever and last night he was in the city so we made a plan to meet up there for some seafood. And some seafood we got! This is only half…
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