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“The Harrison”
It was the week of September 10 ...
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Posted: January 29, 2006

“Nobu 57”
Sometimes the familiar is tired, boring, old, and just over. And yet other times, it becomes classic ...
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Posted: January 22, 2006

“Del Posto”
With all the pre-opening hype surrounding Batali's new Italian behomoth, I'll get right to the point here people. Del Posto offers three things: magnificent design, impeccable service, and ye ...
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Posted: January 13, 2006

“Telepan”
There is a dewy summer garden vibe to Telepan, the debut restaurant of Judson Grill's Greenmarket-driven chef Bill Telepan. The room is painted a lush sage green, and larger than life photos of fruit trees and vegetabl ...
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Posted: January 3, 2006

“Home”
A plate of homemade chocolate chip cookies sits in the bay window of Home restaurant. Thirteen years ago, when David Page and his wife Barbara Shinn opened their snug restaurant, they would stand out on the sidewalk and use the cookies as bait t ...
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Posted: December 26, 2005

“Barbounia”
At Barbounia, the new Mediterranean-inspired restaurant named for a red mullet, the chandelier is what you'll notice first. I am not sure if it is a chandelier as much as a g ...
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Posted: December 19, 2005

“DuMont Burger”
When a restaurant chooses to do just one thing—in this case burgers-—the point is they better do that one thing right. Colin Devlin, the owner of DuMont Burger, a wood-paneled burger den in Williamsburg, could sell burgers ...
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Posted: December 10, 2005

“D'Or Ahn: THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED”
When a new restaurant opens next to one of your current favorites, there is a protective mechanism that gets triggered. You worry. You don't want the favorite restaurant to get hurt. You don't want the new place to change the vibe of the neig ...
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Posted: December 4, 2005

“Beppe”
My Dinner at Beppe Being thankful is a state of being we sometimes have to remind ourselves to experience. We rush around, work, eat, work, eat, run, play, sleep. Repeat. Taking stock in what we have can sometimes (read: often) get lost ...
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Posted: November 27, 2005

“Barca 18-- CLOSED”
Steve Hanson is one of those restaurateurs that people either seem to love or hate. Some industry wags can’t stand his formulaic approach, and his robotic, overly studied service style. Others admire his success, his shameless mass-market appea ...
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Posted: November 20, 2005