Category: New York Restaurant Reviews
New York City Restaurant Reviews
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701 West 135th Street and Twelfth Avenue 212/491.8303 $104 for two, with 3 drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ If anyone in the restaurant industry deserves a break, it’s King Phojanakong, owner and chef of Kuma Inn in the lower east side. I don’t know if it’s the Filipino-Thai upbringing that keeps him humble but I’m…
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4th floor of the Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle at 60th Street 212/823.9335 $900 for two, with drinks, with extra tip apart from the included service fee ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ As soon as our waiter brought out a footstool for my purse so that I didn’t have to put it down on the…
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Second floor, Whole Foods Market 95 East Houston Street corner of Bowery $20 all you can eat sushi, without tip ♥ I didn’t expect high quality sushi when I saw the sign for all you can eat sushi for $20 at Whole Foods on Bowery, but I was curious enough to pull two co-workers with…
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110 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A 212/777.2151 $9 for a pork sandwich, without tip ♥ For Italians, porchetta means boneless pork roast that’s moist and juicy. Chef and co-owner Sara Jenkins doesn’t stray away from that definition: my $9 pork was no joke. The meat was shiny; its own fat glistening…
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163 First Avenue off 10th Street https://reservations.momofuku.com/ about $300 for two, with beverage pairings, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ I was so busy at work last week that I didn’t even have time to be excited about our upcoming reservations at Ko. When Cameron told me she wanted to take me out to thank me…
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306-308 East 6th Street on Second Avenue 212/979.8787 about $200 for five, without drinks, without tip ♥ I’ve never heard of phaal until it made the Omnivore’s Hundred from verygoodtaste.co.uk. From that site’s must-eat list, I checked off 75 items that I’ve tasted and eaten. Among the other 25 is phaal, or phall, a South…
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81 Lexington Avenue corner of 26th Street 212/684.7755 about $45, with one drink, with tip ♥ The Dr. remembered a suggestion he received from one of his co-workers for some dosas in Murray Hill but the name escaped him; all he knew was that it was long and unpronounceable. Luckily we caught a glimpse of…
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165 Allen Street between Rivington and Stanton 212/253.8840 $103 each for a group of 8, with 3 bottles of wine and tip ♥ As soon as we walked up the steps to sit at our 8-person table, I thought Rayuela had promise. It was a bit too dark to read the menu without holding it…
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568 Amsterdam Avenue between 87th and 88th Streets 212/799.7400 about $70 for two, with two beers, with tip ♥ I’ve never been big on moderation and that’s why a lot of the time, I find myself eating and drinking too much and paying way more than I can afford. At The Mermaid Inn, the Dr.…
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1900 Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets 212/595.3034 about $60 each for two, with drinks, with tip ♥ The first time we tried to eat at Bar Boulud, we chose to sit outside with the theater crowd. We were looking at the menu when the heavy wind hit, taking fragile wine glasses with it, shaking…
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403 First Avenue corner of 12th Street 646/602.1300 about $80 each for four, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ I don’t think I’ve met a more sincere maitre d’ than the petite woman at Hearth. We didn’t have reservations when four of us stopped by. We were hoping to get seated at the kitchen pass,…
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803 Washington Avenue between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Place, Brooklyn 718/398.3575 about $40 for three dishes, without drinks, with tip ♥ No roti today? I wanted to make sure I heard correctly. I was so excited to eat at Islands after hearing favorable reviews on places to eat around the Brooklyn Museum, but eating goat…