Cafe Mogador: NYC’s pioneer Moroccan restaurant
Cafe Mogador 101 St. Marks Place (between Ave A and 1st Ave) New York, NY 10009 Cafe Mogador is the definition of the type of restaurant that I love. It has all the right components to keep me going...
View ArticleLil Frankies: great vongole vongole vongole!
Lil Frankies 19 1st Ave New York, NY 10003 E.L. had her birthday dinner here recently. I was pretty stoked because I love Italian food (as you know from my delicious trip to Italy!) and had heard from...
View ArticleWhy do people love Tompkins Square Bagels?
Tompkins Square Bagels 165 Avenue A (between 10th and 11th St) New York, NY 10009 My go-to bagel spot is Ess-A-Bagel on 1st Ave and 21st street. And one really only needs one bagel spot in their life....
View ArticleMadangsui for some mouth watering marbled galbi (short rib)
Madangsui 35 West 35th Street (between 5th and 6th Ave) New York, NY 10001 I was recently invited to Madangsui for their Korean barbecue. I was pretty excited to try a new restaurant in ktown because I...
View ArticleShawarma Mediterranean Grill Flame House (longest name for the tiniest place)
Shawarma Mediterranean Grill Flame House (right by Prospect Park) 212 Prospect Park W Brooklyn, NY 11215 A good while ago, before my trip to Iceland with LAW, N.T., and G.B., we decided we needed to...
View ArticleBig Wong King: a place for a fast meal of Canto BBQ and congee
Big Wong King (between Canal and Bayard St) 67 Mott Street New York, NY 10013 After buying my groceries from HK Supermarket (you can check out my grocery list here, where I can average $2.33 per dinner...
View ArticleThe Bao: THE BEST SOUP DUMPLINGS HAVE ARRIVED IN MANHATTAN
The Bao St. Marks between 2nd and 3rd Ave (no website yet!) This might be the most excited I have been about a restaurant in a long time. The Bao is a new Chinese restaurant in East Village. It’s so...
View ArticleDucks Eatery: Soul food meets Southeast Asian flavors
Ducks Eatery 351 East 12th Street (between 1st and 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10003 I haven’t been this psyched about a restaurant in a while (The Bao aside, of course). I didn’t know what I wanted to eat...
View ArticleSushi Tsushima: deeelicious nigiri and soba
Sushi Tsushima 210 East 44th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Aves) New York, NY 10017 LAW and I have recently discovered a whole slew of great authentic Japanese restaurants around 41st to 44th street on...
View ArticleSouthern in EV: The Redhead
The Redhead 349 East 13th St (between 1st and 2nd Aves) New York, NY 10003 The Redhead is a restaurant I’ve passed many, many times before but had never thought to walk in. It looks like a dark dive...
View ArticleLan Larb: pretty damn legit new Thai restaurant
Lan Larb 637 2nd Ave (between 34th and 35th street) New York, NY 10016 Murray Hill is completely over saturated with Thai places, most of which I qualify as TOTS (take-out Thai standard – as in decent...
View ArticleMEW Izakaya: my new favorite late night dining spot
MEW Izakaya 53 West 35th Street (between 5th and 6th Ave) New York, NY 10016 SOOO EXCITED! Rarely do I go to a new restaurant and know immediately that I’ll be a regular from that moment on. MEW...
View ArticleBrushstroke: delicious and filling fancy pants lunch
Brushstroke 30 Hudson St. New York, NY 10013 What started out to be a painfully awkward lunch at Brushstroke became a surprisingly delicious one. LAW and I were invited by his parents’ friends for...
View ArticleThe most authentic Canto food at Cha Chan Tang
Cha Chan Tang (aka Tea Restaurant) 45 Mott Street (between Pell St and Bayard St) New York, NY 10013 Cha Chan Tang is a type of restaurant that is popular in Hong Kong and specializes in cheap...
View ArticleBetony: creative and delicious offspring of Eleven Madison
Betony 41 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 I’m going to take you through my meal at Betony the way I wish I experienced it: aka. without the pretentious crowd and stuffy furnishing. More on this...
View ArticleUmami Burger ON MY COUCH thanks to OrderAhead!
My good friends A.H. and A.C. both work at OrderAhead, an exciting food startup that is coming head to head with Caviar. Those of you who don’t know, these are food delivery startups that, well,...
View ArticleInteresting AND Tasty: A Delicious Ladies Lunch at Jean Georges
Jean Georges 1 Central Park West New York, NY 10023 HI GUYZ! It’s been awhile since I’ve done a real blog post. Going to try to get back at it now that the weather is nicer and I’m less inclined to...
View ArticleBibble & Sip: An Alpaca Cafe with lots of matcha and lavender (and alpacas)
Bibble & Sip 253 W 53rd St (8th Ave) New York, NY 10019 J.S., my super trendy fashionista friend (check out her blog!) who also loves to eat and drink coffee, introduced me to Bibble & Sip. She...
View ArticleNishida Sho-Ten: FAMAZING gyoza and delicious, authentic ramen
Nishida Sho-Ten 302 E 49th St (between 1st and 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10017 I’m really tired of eating at fancy places (#firstworldproblems). I was about to blog about my recent trip to Bouley, then...
View ArticleEONS: The Greek Chipotle
EONS 633 2nd Ave (34th St) New York, NY 10016 Chipotle… meets the Greek Gods and makes Greek babies. And by babies I mean food. And by Chipotle makes Greek food I mean a restaurant called Eons copied...
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