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“Anthos”
In life, we are constantly bombarded by opportunities for comparison. You think, your last girlfriend was not was as funny as this girlfriend; your hair doesn’t look as good as it did yesterday, your new job is no ...
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Posted: April 30, 2007

“Palo Santo”
I couldn’t take my eyes off the cat. She was patrolling the garden, rather languidly actually, delicately tip-toeing on the high stone wall, balanced perfectly on a precarious battlement of jagged mismatched roc ...
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Posted: April 23, 2007

“European Union”
  Drama happens a lot in the restaurant business. Witness the latest round of chef casualties—Neil Ferguson (Gordon Ramsay ...
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Posted: April 9, 2007

“Fireside”
In 1994, a restaurant opened that would change the world of food as it was once known. It would make it tastier, racier, livelier, and more often than not, smaller. This restaurant was not located in a glitzy palace in ...
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Posted: April 2, 2007

“Amalia”
 I was introduced to Sigmund Freud, or at least his Upper West Side disciples, at an early age. My parents divorced when I was six. The years that preceded their final separation were, well, not so pleasan ...
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Posted: March 27, 2007

“Gramercy Tavern (Lunch)”
Let me begin by saying that I’m a big fan of the civilized lunch. By civilized I mean any lunch that is not consumed over the keys of my MacBook, with one hand on fork, one hand on phone. I don’t usually treat myself to civilized lunch ...
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Posted: March 18, 2007

“Tasca”
I’m gonna start this review with a fairly obvious declaration. New York is a tough town to open a restaurant. Come to think of it, it’s a pretty tough town to do anything for that matter. Just getting a cup of c ...
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Posted: March 12, 2007

“Morandi”
The Scene:Craig and I, exterior of Morandi, corner of Waverly and Charles. A warm evening at the edge of winter creeping into spring.  A tall man in a suit stands outside the main doors o ...
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Posted: March 5, 2007

“The Monday Room”
The folks at AvroKo—the cutting edge design and architecture firm made up of Kristina O’Neal, Greg Bradshaw, Adam Farmerie and William Harris—have designed so ...
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Posted: February 26, 2007

“Stand”
I like hamburgers. I mean, who doesn’t, right? Now, I’m not gonna write a blog about ‘em (that’s been done; see www.ahamburgertoday.com), but I think they’re swell. First, they taste good. But more than that, there&rsquo ...
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Posted: February 19, 2007