Posts Tagged ‘Dining’

Fab French Favorites

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A cheery “bonsoir” greets everyone who strides through the front door of La Mirabelle, an Upper West Side mainstay of classic French fare. “I like to treat my customers like they are guests in my own home,” explains Annick La Douarane, owner of the quarter-century-old bistro. With daughters, nephews, cousins and in-laws on staff, the
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Obscure Tuscan Fun

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Think Tuscany: rolling sun-kissed vineyards topped with old castles, enchanting villages trickling down the hillside, fruitful sprawling vines, clouds and blue sky for days. Think Felice, which literally means “happy.” “Happy” and “wine” are the perfect blend, a hint at what’s inside this cavernous space that imports some of its wine directly from the vineyard
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Welcome to the Palace

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Setting the standard for haute Chinese cuisine in New York City since 1971, Shun Lee Palace and its sister restaurant, Shun Lee West, have delighted an estimated 10 million diners with an array of classic and original Szechuan and Cantonese dishes. If ever there were a special-occasion restaurant, Shun Lee Palace sets that standard too.
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Fabled Fries

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Hosting kiddy birthday parties is challenging when your kids don’t eat pizza.* That’s why when my son turned 5, we got 10 take-out orders of French fries from Toast, then a new-kid-on-the-block Harlem restaurant specializing in sandwich fare. The 15 kids and we grown-ups attacked the fries like marauding seagulls
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A Meal for the Proles, Carnegie Hill Style

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My armchair-socialist father, an Englishman, taught me that real food is blue-collar, like steak and kidney pie or mashed potatoes and liver. But after living for four years with my grandmother (his mother-in-law), a German nonagenarian brought up as the daughter of prosperous steel industrialists, I’ve developed a blooming taste for gourmet. She is certainly
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The Kefi Commotion

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Quiet Columbus Avenue was no preparation for the frenzied commotion that greeted me inside Kefi on a recent Sunday night. At a quarter to eight, a 10-minute wait just to check in for my reservation afforded time to admire the blue-tiled maritime mosaic on the back wall, an artistic punctuation to the restaurant’s fittingly azure
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Wanna Chaat?

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“A chick pea is neither a chick, nor a pea—discuss!” said Mike Myers, doing his famed Linda Richman “Coffee Talk” schtick. The chickpea’s versatility makes it indispensable for global snacking, especially in savory Indian street snacks, sold from carts or stalls under the category of  “chaat.” No such stalls or carts line the stretch of
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