Writing about food since 2004.
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Strawberry Blonde Cheesecakes Have More Fun, Especially at The Brooklyn Diner
I almost forgot to mention that after the Indian meal and after the reading Patty and I went for coffee and dessert at The Brooklyn Diner. You know my parents really like The Brooklyn Diner: it’s on 57th Street and the food there is really good, I gotta say. Plus the service is really attentive,…
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Where To Eat Before A New Yorker Reading at The Director’s Guild? Try Zitar
This weekend was The New Yorker festival. I had a fabulous time, especially last night when I went with my friend Ricky to see Rufus Wainwright and we totally became best friends with Rufus’s sister, Lucy. The Rufus Wainwright concert was the highlight for me (we had awesome seats right up front) and “The Art…
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Going Tapas at Tia Pol
Lisa doesn’t love tapas. In various conversations, Lisa’s explained that when you eat tapas (small appetizer portions of food) you spend lots of money and you go away hungry. And so Tia Pol, the fairly new tapas bar on 10th avenue–part of the 10th ave. restaurant boom–didn’t seem like an obvious choice for dinner with…
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Eating Grenouille at La Grenouille
If you live in New York or even if you don’t, you’ve probably seen an ad for La Grenouille. With its particular font and style, you see it in the back of Playbills at Broadway shows. You see it in The New Yorker and sometimes in the New York Times Magazine section. Such blatant commercialism…
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High Drama and Warm Bagels at Ess-A-Bagel
Back in my Chowhounding days, before I lived in New York, I had a list on the back page of a moleskin notebook of places Chowhounders revered in the city. I actually still have that moleskin in my desk somewhere. The summer before I moved to New York, I stayed with Lisa and used that…
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A.O.C. is A-OK except for the loud music
There was a time, not too long ago, when I’d have to beg my friends to eat with me at interesting restaurants–to not do the Olive Garden or whatever restaurants most people our age eat at and try something different, new, and maybe more expensive than they wanted to pay. There was a time when…
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Knowledge is Power: Dinners at Wondee Siam II and Osteria del Sole
Here is a story of two dinners, both unplanned. The first happened Friday night. I was meeting my friend Mark, theater critic (who has a story in the NYT coming out soon!), to go see a production of Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband.” Mark couldn’t do dinner first so I was on my own. I…
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Get a taste of New York history at 21 (PLUS: The filthiest most spotless bathroom in New York.)
From the “21” website: “Over three-quarters of a century ago, Congress passed the Act that ushered in the Prohibition Era. In New York, as in every American city, ‘speakeasies’ mushroomed, but none was more celebrated than ‘Jack and Charlie’s ’21’, founded by two collegian cousins from the West Side, Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns. Although…
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Of Human Bondage: Dinner at Bond 45
Michael and I went to see “Spamalot” Friday night (which was tons of fun, Michael says it’s one of the top five shows he’s ever seen) and before the show I wanted to take him to Carmine’s which is right across the street. Carmine’s was our childhood theater district staple—a big Italian food factory that…
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For $48, eat a three-course four-star lunch at the phenomenal Le Bernardin
[This is part two in an eating adventure with mom that began with the post before this, Chanterelle…] $48 is a lot of money and it’s a lot of money to spend on food. Is it $115? No it’s not, it’s cheaper. $115 is a tasting menu at Chanterelle. Is it $5 for a extra…
