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  • The Amateur Gourmet’s Guide To His Second Year In New York

    The Amateur Gourmet’s Guide To His Second Year In New York

    Last year I made a list (which you can see by clicking here) of all the restaurants I visited in my first year as a New York resident. Well my second year here is more than over (the two year anniversary was in August) but I figure my loyal readers, and you know who you…

  • Out On The Scene with Ed Levine: Pizza at Adrienne’s & Pastries at Financier

    Out On The Scene with Ed Levine: Pizza at Adrienne’s & Pastries at Financier

    I became aware of Ed Levine in four stages. Stage One was reading about him in Ruth Reichl’s “Garlic & Sapphires”; he’s the subject of her chapter “The Missionary of the Delicious.” Stage Two was seeing his books in bookstores: “New York Eats” and “Pizza: A Slice of Heaven.” (The latter involved consuming 1,000 slices…

  • Cafe Sabarsky is a Gem

    Cafe Sabarsky is a Gem

    I love watching old movies that feature New York. This is lame but the first one that comes to mind is Bob Fosse’s semi-watchable film version of “Sweet Charity.” In this film you can see Shirley Maclaine get pushed into the Central Park lake from the famous footbridge. I like that scene because hey, it’s…

  • Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Voce

    Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Voce

    If you want to know what kind of restaurant I do approve of, the kind of restaurant that embodies all I love about eating out, look no further than A Voce. A Voce opened this year to great acclaim. It was one of the “hits” in the NYT restaurant round-up of “hits” and “misses” 2006.…

  • Only A Jerk Would Eat At Le Cirque

    Only A Jerk Would Eat At Le Cirque

    Dear Readers, I am writing you, on behalf of the human race, to inform you that a famous restaurant, a restaurant whose name still carries great cache, is a danger to humanity. Never have I been more outraged by a restaurant than I was on Friday night when my parents, who came to town, took…

  • Labor Day Weekend on Cape Cod

    Labor Day Weekend on Cape Cod

    I wasn’t supposed to go to Cape Cod. Well, I was. But then I wasn’t. See, when Craig told me I was invited to go to Cape Cod, to stay at the beach house of his friend Rob and 13 others–most of them film school students–I was thrilled to be included. A Cape Cod invitation…

  • Give A Howl For The Little Owl

    Give A Howl For The Little Owl

    It made no sense to wind up at The Little Owl after attending the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center, but somehow we did. Diana’s youngest brother Brian was in town and we thought it would be fun to get rocked by Amadeus at Avery Fisher Hall. Our plan was to see the concert and…

  • In Kristen Veritas

    In Kristen Veritas

    My college friend Kristen of the food blog Give Me Some Food came to town recently with her mother and the two of them were kind enough to take me and our friend Ricky out to dine at a wine lover’s dream restaurant: Veritas. Here’s Kristen’s write-up of the meal, including an account of the…

  • Floored By Florent?

    Floored By Florent?

    Last night was supposed to be Fatty Crab night. There were six of us, and when Craig and I arrived we were informed by the rest that Fatty Crab wouldn’t seat all six of us together–they wanted to split us into three and three–and that the wait would be 1.5 hours. “1.5 hours!” everyone yelled.…

  • D.C. Noshing

    D.C. Noshing

    I approached our trip to D.C. this past weekend with a new attitude. The new attitude went something like this: “Let’s not obsess about our meals; researching and investigating potential dining destinations. Let’s go with the flow and just have fun.” And for the most part that’s what we did. I even forfeited a reservation…