Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts

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West Village

  • Apollo Bagels

    Apollo Bagels

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    I often make doctor’s appointments with a mind towards lunch. For example, yesterday I went to get my cholesterol checked in Chelsea. When I picked the appointment I chose 10:45 not because I wanted to ride the F train with the commuter crowd, but because I knew that when I was done I could finally…

  • Bangkok Supper Club

    Bangkok Supper Club

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    [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…

  • Via Carota

    Via Carota

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    [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…

  • Fedora

    Fedora

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    [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…

  • Cecchi’s

    Cecchi’s

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    [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…