Posts Tagged ‘Dining’

Crappy Wine Worth Your Time

Written by admin on August 19, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Some months ago, just after I began writing this column, I published a piece that focused on only one wine. It was a Burgundy, and it was, relatively speaking, rather pricey. At more than $40 a bottle, it certainly wasn’t a wine that I was able to drink on a regular basis, but it was
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Diminutive Dominican, Gargantuan Portions

Written by admin on August 13, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

Blink and you’ll miss this sliver of a restaurant. Yet at lunchtime, stalwart Latino men stand three deep behind the orange counter waiting for two harried women to serve Dominican specialties like cow’s foot soup and cuchifritos. Standing outside I noticed a giant white board that seemed to price every dish at $2. “Roasted fish
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Summer Reds

Written by admin on August 13, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

It was a hot summer afternoon at the wine shop and the A/C had broken…again. We coped with the heat and the complaining customers the only way we knew how: by pouring out samples of ice-cold white wine. As I popped open a crisp, thirst-quenching bottle of a New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, I poured a
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A Multi-Layered Meal

Written by admin on August 5, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

Don’t let the name fool you—Angelina Pizza Bar offers more then just pizza. This family-friendly restaurant near West 105th Street not only has extensive Italian fare and a decent wine list but Chef Giancarlo Delanzo cooks his crazy creations in a brick oven with a rotating floor. As pies like the Bella Angelina (with zucchini
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Crustaceans Go Global

Written by admin on July 29, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

Flex mussels is doing something right. This Prince Edward Island offshoot seems to have no trouble packing the small, almost subterranean, space each night with crustacean-loving locals, despite being tucked away on a dark and often construction-ridden 82nd Street, too far off Third Avenue to attract foot traffic. And what this “something” is, of course,
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Wine Bars Go Casual

Written by admin on July 29, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

The wine-bar boom of the early 2000s was one part culinary fad and one part symptom of an over-indulgent and bloated economy. To most New York City diners, wine bars were never viewed as a place to get a serious meal. The wine lists were often voluminous and confusing, the bite-sized “tapas style” snacks were
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Have You “Et” at Pret?

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

It took a visit to a Pret a Manger wannabe to realize just how good Pret is. The British “ready to eat” sandwich chain with the French name has been a New York City fixture since 2000, but I’d never “et” at Pret until my intrepid snacking companion said of the wannabe, “It’s trying to
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Beacon Learns New Tricks

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

I first visited Beacon shortly after it opened, 10 long years ago. At that time, it was primarily a steakhouse, celebrated for its roaring gigantic wood-burning stove, proudly displayed in the open kitchen at the end of the main dining room. With the intense proliferation of steakhouses in Manhattan during the years since Beacon opened,
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Tiny Bubbles

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Whether it’s an overpriced bottle of Louis Roederer’s Cristal Champagne being held aloft in some Manhattan club, or just a humble bottle of Prosecco being mixed with peach nectar on a lazy Sunday morning, sparkling wine the world over has a special meaning. It has always signified celebration in one way or another, and rightfully
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Behind the Bodega

Written by admin on July 16, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

“Welcome to wonderland,” said the plump Mexican man in a black suit. My sister, Carol, looked dubious. After all, she had just walked to the back of a Tenth Avenue bodega. But her face brightened when she saw me, sitting in a narrow mirrored corridor festooned with festive Mexican decorations. Tehuitzingo reminds me of the
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