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“Crema”
Crema is the newest incarnation of the narrow 17th Street space that has been Snack, an American small plates restaurant, and then Sandia, a Mexican spot with a juicy watermelon theme. One has to wonder about troubled locations like these—wheth ...
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Posted: April 9, 2006

“Buddakan”
When I first walked into Buddakan, I was ready to hate it. It was hot on the heels of a fairly disappointing experience at Stephen Starr& ...
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Posted: April 3, 2006

“Jerry's- Closed Now”
It’s hard to believe it’s been eighteen years since Jerry’s, the Soho diner as icon, opened its heavy chrome doors. Back in the day, when it first opened, Soho was the final frontier, a wild world of unchartered cobblestone crowded ...
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Posted: March 27, 2006

“The Good Fork”
The hassle of taking the subway and then the bus came up only the first time we made the journey. But after the fat and crispy pot stickers plumped with pork and ginger ($5), and the tender charred slices of soy-marinated steak on a mound of spicy ...
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Posted: March 23, 2006

“Aix Brasserie”
The Upper West Side has always been the Bermuda triangle when it comes to culinary invention. Anything that even remotely echoes ambition is ...
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Posted: March 20, 2006

“Colors”
It occurred to me the other night while having dinner at Colors, that often times we make judgments based on the surface of things. We look at someone, or something, make quick conclusions, and move on. But if we take the tim ...
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Posted: March 12, 2006

“El Bocadito-- CLOSED”
Okay people, let me ask you this: How many of you reading this review are nurturing a dream? Really. Be honest. How many of you have a dream somewhere tucked back in the dusty recesses of your heart—a little voice that occasionally gets the ...
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Posted: March 5, 2006

“Christos Steakhouse”
The last time I had dinner in Astoria was about six years ago. (I know—inexcusable.) I was dating a guy who is second generation Egyptian. We had been talking about visiting Little Egypt on Steinway Street for ages. So one year, on his birt ...
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Posted: February 27, 2006

“Morimoto”
I thought it might be fitting to begin this review of Morimoto with a quote from its owner, the Phi ...
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Posted: February 20, 2006

“The Orchard”
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the concept of “searching.” We are all, it seems, sear ...
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Posted: February 5, 2006