Posts Tagged ‘Dining’

SHAKE SHACK CREATES A STIR

Written by admin on October 30, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink, News & Features West Side Spirit

It was 3 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, and the normally placid corner of 77th Street and Columbus Avenue was thronged. Despite a driving rain, mothers with strollers jockeyed with twenty-somethings and retired folk in a line that extended around the corner and halfway down the block to Amsterdam Avenue. A Miley Cyrus album signing?
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REVIVED NORTHERN ITALIAN

Written by admin on October 16, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

There are so many good restaurants in Midtown that it’s all too easy to overlook the less showy ones, and there are so many good Italian restaurants in this city that the same is true of them. You seldom hear of Italian restaurants going under, and there are many good reasons for that, including the
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HAVE A BLINTZ, BUBBELEH

Written by admin on October 16, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

I can think of no better place to bring a visitor to New York than Zabar’s café. Of course, the tourists head in droves to Zabar’s; but to get the real New York experience you need to sit in the adjacent café—really no more than a long table ringed by uncomfortably high bar chairs—and listen
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WORTH A STOP, EVEN WITHOUT A TRAIN TO CATCH

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

As a neighborhood, Penn Station doesn’t spring to mind as a restaurant destination, and it should, because there are several steakhouses there that are every bit as good as any in Manhattan, among them Nick & Stef’s Steakhouse. The area gets so little gastronomic attention that I wasn’t aware that Nick & Stef’s even existed,
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GROOVY GROCERY

Written by admin on October 9, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

“Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobblestones. Looking for [snacks] and feelin’ groovy.” It was in such a spirit that I walked near the 59th Street Bridge and happened on Katagiri, a bustling 100-year-old Japanese grocery
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CHOLA'S NOT AFRAID OF THE HEAT

Written by admin on October 2, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

Indian restaurants in Manhattan have an odd tendency to cluster. East 6th Street between First and Second avenues has dozens (the running joke is that there is one giant kitchen under the block); Murray Hill, too; and East 58th Street between Second and Third avenues has an esteemed group of its own. The leader of
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TUSCAN COOKING, PLUS A CELEB OR TWO

Written by admin on September 25, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

With its staid and sophisticated décor, an elegant staff to match and flawlessly executed Northern Italian cuisine, Nello has been attracting well-heeled Upper East Siders and more than a few celebrities ever since the restaurant flung open its doors in 1991. Late summer roses are practically everywhere you look in the dining room. The ivory
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PROVENCE, VIA CHELSEA

Written by admin on September 22, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

Allegretti had been open for only one month the night we visited it, but it has already hit quite an enviable stride on every level, from the superb French Provençale cuisine to the quicksilver and highly congenial staff to the stately and comfortable dining room. Needless to say, this sort of flawlessness takes very careful
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NOT YOUR MAMA'S EMPANADAS

Written by admin on September 15, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

In the days when you used to be fed on airlines, United gave me something dubious in the wee hours of the morning: “a breakfast burrito,” a rubbery concoction filled with sausage, eggs and chemicals. So I’m skeptical when restaurants try to put breakfast, salad or dessert in anything but the middle of a plate.
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SOUTHERN MEETS CREOLE IN SOHO

Written by admin on September 15, 2008. Posted in Eat & Drink

AT LOLA, APPETIZERS AND ENTREES WITH A WHIMSICAL BUT DISTINCTIVE TOUCH By Tom Steele I was quite startled when Lola’s Flatiron location was shuttered about four years ago. The restaurant was immensely popular, cherished for two decades for its superb American/soul food, its live jazz and R&B, and its rambunctious gospel brunches. I had more
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