Posts Tagged ‘Snack Attack’

Barrio Chic

Written by admin on February 4, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

When I walked past El Museo del Barrio, I was wowed by the formerly gritty museum’s new bold yellow Plexiglass façade and, once inside, by the bright, airy modern café, with its huge arched windows overlooking the Central Park Conservatory garden. Part of El Museo’s $35 million renovation, El Café is catered by Great Performances,
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What I Found in My (Pita) Pocket

Written by admin on January 28, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

“You’ve got to try Pita Joe,” Pete told me, week after week. Pete Blumenthal and I have spent years after school on the P.S. 75 playground, sometimes talking about our kids, but mainly talking about food. And while I trust his instincts, I wondered what could be so special about yet another falafel joint. Well,
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Chinese Firecracker Bang for the Buck

Written by admin on January 13, 2010. Posted in Eat & Drink

Never mind the indifferent to unfriendly waitstaff, the run-down décor and refrigerated soda cans on display. Never mind that they charged me 40 cents to take home the crispy noodles that arrived the moment I sat down—those eggy noodles that send you right back to the 1960s as soon as you dip them in duck
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Savory Specialties, Syrupy Sweets

Written by admin on December 31, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

In New York City you have only to think of a restaurant specializing in poached eggs or the cuisine of Papua New Guinea, and Chowhounders will soon be telling you the cross streets. Dream of a café selling myriad types of baklava? Your culinary prayers are answered with the opening of Midtown’s Güllüoglu. Long known
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Farmers’ Focaccia

Written by admin on December 18, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

In winter, the city’s farmers’ markets have an austere beauty. No longer spilling over with a rainbow of summer’s harvest, the market shows more somber tones: ochre, cream and faded reds. Potatoes, root vegetables, cauliflower, apples and smooth brown eggs
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Chilean Dogs Get Their Day

Written by admin on December 9, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

“Chile: Long and Narrow Land,” was the title of my 5th-grade report. Years later, I would think of Chile when under the spell of Pablo Neruda’s odes or listening to Victor Jara’s music and reading of his sad fate. Never once did I encounter or think about Chilean food. Yet, Barros Luco has moved in
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Bringing Home the Booty

Written by admin on November 25, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

Would you eat something called a “Cheese Rock,” especially if it looks like a rock? I did, but only because it was a bad name for something incredible, otherwise known as pan de yuca. Break open the lumpy roll ($1.75) at this small, charming bakery, and you will find a culinary geode exposing fluffy, buttery,
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Move Over, Banh Mi

Written by admin on November 11, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

The Asian sandwich craze has a new contender in these plump, round little numbers that arrive in waxed paper bags, served on wooden dumpling steamer trays. As with Shake Shack’s burgers, which also come in wax paper, much of the goodness is in the bun, or man tao. These are made of the stark white,
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Rice & Beans: Food of ‘El Pueblo’

Written by admin on October 23, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

I spent much of the late 1980s at marches chanting, “El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.” Whether in solidarity with Nicaragua or El Salvador, the marches would culminate with parties at union halls where we spooned up rice and beans, saying, “Arroz con frijoles, por favor,” in our best Spanish accents. Yellow rice and beans,
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That Old Mamoun’s Magic

Written by admin on October 9, 2009. Posted in Eat & Drink

When our Israeli geophysicist friend, Gidon Eshel, provided major guidance for Mark Bittman’s New York Times article on meat consumption*, the esteemed cookbook author offered to take Gidon out to eat “anywhere in New York City.” “Where will you go?” I asked eagerly. “Mamoun’s Falafel,” Gidon said. While I might have aimed a little higher,
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