September 20, 2011

“NY Craft Beer Week: tasting menus almost as good as the beer”
This week is Craft Beer Week, the best time of year for beer. Octoberfest beers are officially on liquor store shelves and NYC restaurants are ready to pair good food with good brews. Get your pint glass ready. Start your beer crawl at the ...
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Posted: September 20, 2011 - 8:08 am

September 15, 2011

“Wong Opens in West Village”
Some of the best Asian food you can hunt down in New York is served in places that are, shall we say, very down home. The garish lighting, no nonsense service and tattered menus are the norm. But if you’ve ever been to Simpson Wong’s C ...
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Posted: September 15, 2011 - 6:07 pm

September 13, 2011

“Help Save Bristol Bay at The Mermaid Inn”
The Mermaid Inn's Danny Abrams has teamed up with Trout Unlimited to help protect the Bristol Bay—the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world—from Pebble Mine development. Save Bristol Bay works with scientists, chefs, restaura ...
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Posted: September 13, 2011 - 2:40 pm

“Get Your Game On Here”
Thirty flat screen TVs, a 4,000 square-foot space, and plush banquette seating await you (and your fellow sports fans) at Bounce Sporting Club, the city's newest nightclub meets sports bar. Just in time for football season, the club com ...
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Posted: September 13, 2011 - 1:19 pm

September 9, 2011

“Le Bernardin is Back (and beautiful)”
If you haven't been to Le Bernardin, consider their redesign a mandate to make your reservation. The place is New York a classic, and offers food and service I have rarely found anywhere else. For my anniversary last year, Craig and I had dinn ...
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Posted: September 9, 2011 - 8:20 pm

September 7, 2011

“CAN YOU MAKE THE CUT? ...OR WILL YOU GET CHOPPED? ”
Calling all cooks! Chopped is casting, in the NY/Tri-State area, New Orleans, Atlanta and Vegas this fall! Food Network is seeking the next round of professional chefs to compete on one of the hottest cooking competition sh ...
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Posted: September 7, 2011 - 4:27 pm

August 30, 2011

“Xocolatti opens in Soho on September 12th”
If there's one thing we could all use post-Irene, it's chocolate. Thankfully, Shaineal Shah's chocolate shop opens in Soho on September 12th, just in time to indulge in something sweet. Shah, who gained notoriety after launchi ...
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Posted: August 30, 2011 - 8:32 am

August 28, 2011

“Coda: Jack the Horse Tavern”
Last week, I wrote about several terrible service experiences I’d had at Jack the Horse Tavern here in Brooklyn Heights. After the piece was published, I received an email from the chef, apologizing profusely for the bad service and letting ...
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Posted: August 28, 2011 - 1:30 pm

August 21, 2011

“Where to Get the WORST Service in Brooklyn? Jack the Horse Tavern ”
A few years ago when I moved to Brooklyn Heights from Cobble Hill, I wrote about what I thought was a wonderful little restaurant in the fruit street section of the Heights. At the time, I was quite depressed with our culinary plight here in the H ...
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Posted: August 21, 2011 - 9:07 pm

August 17, 2011

“A Place for Carnivores”
The fine folks who own Resto have opened The Cannibal, a sandwich shop and butchery featuring lots of whole animals and parts otherwise that, a decade ago, were more regularly associated with the trash bin than the table (ears, intestines, noses, ...
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Posted: August 17, 2011 - 4:52 pm