Posts Tagged ‘Dining’

Food as Life

Written by admin on September 22, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, News & Features West Side Spirit

Chef Kevin Garcia shares lifetime of experience at Academia Di Vino By Linnea Covington On a recent Friday afternoon, as the staff prepared Accademia di Vino Broadway for dinner service, Kevin Garcia sat at the bar trying to figure out how to recreate a dish he sampled on a chefs’ tour of Sicily. The photo
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Part of the Near Beer Crowd

Written by admin on September 22, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Being social without consuming alcohol By Josh Perilo I have, literally, dozens of friends and acquaintances who, for one reason or another, no longer drink alcohol. For some of them, the choice to not drink was an easy one. For others, it was, and continues to be, a long and difficult road. In the Behavioral
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At El Porron, Taste of Spain Is Delivered

Written by admin on September 22, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

Authentic dishes served with flair By Tom Steele Before I visited Spain for the first time, my friends warned me that I’d be disappointed by the cuisine there. On the contrary, I was not only completely beguiled, but the trip changed the way I cooked in several important ways. For example, as soon as I
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Can’t Pronounce It. Must Have It.

Written by admin on September 15, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

By Nancy J. Brandwein Even though BBQ joint Rack & Soul downsized its Upper West Side outpost, the giant orange sign eclipses next-door-neighbor Saji’s. Yet out of this tiny, authentic Japanese storefront come some big flavors, like that of the agedashi tofu appetizer ($4.25). Saji’s takes a block of aged firm and silken tofu and
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Pinot Noir is Jazz

Written by admin on September 15, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

By Josh Perilo Continuing on my recent ramblings, comparing different grape varietals to different genres of music, one grape in particular began to vex me. Pinot Noir. So unique, and yet incredibly hard to define, I tossed and turned trying to pin down what musical niche could possibly compare. Then it struck me like a
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Written by admin on September 8, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

We all want to win, no matter the cost By Josh Perilo There was a rep for a particular distributor that our wine store bought quite a bit of product from that really got under my skin. She came in monthly to do tastings for the customers. Every time she did, we had some kind
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Prepared Food Paradise

Written by admin on June 23, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

By Nancy J. Brandwein In Sex and the City 2, Carrie tells Big that he won’t find her in the kitchen, only ordering delivery. Well, if I had the fantasy life that is Sex and the City, I’d probably order in every day from Agata & Valentina, the Upper East Side version of Zabar’s, albeit
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Patriotic Libations

Written by admin on June 23, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Some high-quality wines from the original 13 colonies By Josh Perilo With the Fourth of July fast approaching, I was given pause to think about the state of our union and the divisiveness that currently seems to hang in the air. While there are always issues being fought over and differences of opinion in this
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Winespeak Decoded

Written by admin on May 26, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Conversing with an oenophile shouldn’t require a translator By Josh Perilo “Just tell me how it tastes,” The Doctor said, cutting me off before I launched into my usual exuberant spiel. “And avoid words that have more than three syllables.” The Doctor was one of our regulars at the wine store. He could be somewhat
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‘Oaky’ Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Written by admin on May 12, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink, The Penniless Epicure

Don’t hate Chardonnays just because you’re supposed to By Josh Perilo Sometimes I don’t even realize I’m doing it until I’m standing in the middle of the supermarket, my voice rising incrementally and bleating: “I don’t care how many viewers it has, I think Family Guy is the un-funniest show that has ever aired on
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