There are these little cafeteria-type ethnic restaurants all throughout midtown. They’re one step up from those scary steam tables at the corner deli. But some of them turn out really delicious food. However. it’s a little daunting to try to figure out which are worth stopping in to and which are a week away from [...]
The Uptown incarnation of A Voce opened late last year to lots of fanfare and good reviews. Since then, its buzz has seemed to fizzle and simmer. You don’t hear much about it anymore, sitting up there in the Time Warner Building with its beautiful views of Central Park. But I guess press no longer [...]
Ice cream at a steakhouse is usually forgettable. It’s often consumed after a gut-busting meal and it’s possibly more painful to gobble up the dessert than it is pleasurable. But even still, the ice cream is rarely more than the usual vanilla or chocolate. And it’s almost never homemade. Quality Meats has never played by [...]
I’ll never forget on one of my first visits to New York touring NBC Studios and then walking through a strange underground mall. I remember high-end shops, fast moving foot traffic, and food courts. It was an exciting hybrid of New York urban life and my shopping mall rich South Florida adolescent. When I first [...]
New York is known for its small spaces. For lots and lots of money, you can get a tiny cupboard of an apartment. And if you have ingenuity and some design talent, you can figure out a way to squeeze out as much space as possible. That’s how skyscrapers eventually grew in this city. We [...]
My favorite issues of Time Out each year are the 100 Best Food and Drink issue and the Cheap Issue. It’s clear that I’m both a foodie and a Jew (a Jew-die?) So when they write articles about cheap food in the city, I am in heaven. The lunch special at Yakitori Totto, the semi-hidden (it’s [...]
I don’t understand why delicatessens are so celebrity obsessed. It seems it’s a requirement to have a wall of celebrity photos hanging over you as you enjoy your corned beef and pastrami. I guess famous people love delis. Is that how they stay so skinny? Stage Deli, which is down the street from the Carnegie [...]
Let’s talk about Woody Allen for a second. You could make a very convincing argument that he is the ultimate New Yorker. Forget Walt Whitman or Donald Trump. Woody was born in Brooklyn, his jazz ensemble plays at the Carlyle every week, and he made a film called Manhattan for crissakes! Interestingly enough, the only [...]
When a man dressed in a costume or some traditional garb tries to hand me a restaurant menu in Midtown, I usually avert my eyes and try to make it past him without embarrassing either of us. Well, today I not only took the guy’s menu, I actually went up the stairs to try the [...]
Okay, so when it comes to Tarte Flambées, I am definitely a little bit jaded. For those uninitiated, a tarte flambée is an Alsatian flat bread with smoked bacon, softened onions, and créme fraîche. I feel like I’m at work. You see, at The Modern (where I work), our Chef Gabriel Kreuther is Alsatian and [...]
