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“Toloache”
The other night, after having dinner at Toloache with Craig and our friends Jim and Laura, we leaned back in our seats and held our bulging bellies and started to talk about the meal we had just enjoyed. Jim, a good frie ...
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Posted: October 1, 2007

“Accademia di Vino”
The other day, I was having lunch with some girlfriends on the roof at Soho House (a friend is a member ...
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Posted: September 24, 2007

“BLT Market”
Much is made these days of local cuisine. Every chef worth his or her weight in heirloom green beans has a Greenmarket-driven menu, or sources produce within the locavore’s 100-mile radius. Manny Howard, in this wee ...
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Posted: September 17, 2007

“Suba”
It was toward the end of my dinner at Suba that the conversation took a dramatic turn. We started dinner on a normal enough note. We had been drinking glasses of rosé cava and had already moved onto Txakoli—an effe ...
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Posted: September 3, 2007

“Rayuela”
One of my favorite things about summer is that I have a lot more time to get into some great books. I love to read and somehow in the winter, I just don’t do it as much as I do in the summer when I’m out at the beach on those weekends ...
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Posted: August 27, 2007

“Zoe Townhouse”
Zoë Townhouse is the new incarnation of the (sadly) short-lived Jovia, Stephen and Thalia Loffredo’s upscale and elegant Italian restaurant that opened in that space in 2006. When their concept fell flat, they had to retool and reconsid ...
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Posted: August 20, 2007

“Gemma”
The day after my dinner at Gemma, I got an email my friend Heather, who’d joined some girlfriends and me the night before for an Italian feast. Her email was short and sweet, and ended with a request: “Dinner ...
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Posted: August 6, 2007

“Patroon”
A waiter approached. He was quite tall and thin, but broad, with gray hair combed sensibly into a side part. He wore a crisp white shirt, a dark tie, and a long waist to ankle apron. He pushed a long silver-wheeled rectangular cart, topped with a ...
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Posted: July 30, 2007

“Soto”
My phone was ringing. It was Stacey, and she was lost. “I’m on 6th Avenue, near West 4th, and I don’t see the restaurant,” she said. “Where is it?” “It’s there,” I said. “You must be standin ...
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Posted: July 23, 2007

“5 Ninth”
I know many of you may be scratching your head at this review, thinking, “What’s she doing writing about 5 Ninth? Doesn’t she know that this restaurant opened three years ago? Is she getting soft in the head?” Well, I can appr ...
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Posted: July 16, 2007