Author: cia
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2211 Frederick Douglass Boulevard corner of 119th Street $45 each for 2 people, with drinks, with tip 212/662.8462 ♥ ♥ Finally, a new addition to the Harlem restaurant scene worth writing about. Shauna and I walked around the neighborhood to try and cool off from the hot Saturday weather and got a drink at Bier…
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68 Clinton Street off Rivington Street $87 for 2 people, with 2 beers, without tip 212/920.4485 ♥ ♥ ♥ Pork, with a side of pork, is what I always hear when Filipino food is being described to me by other people. Top Chef contestant Leah Cohen sticks to that mantra at Pig & Khao, a…
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254 South 2nd Street off Havemeyer, Williamsburg, Brooklyn $55 each for 2 people, without drinks, without tip Email chezjosebk at gmail dot com for reservations ♥ ♥ ♥ Back in 2009, I had a very impressive dinner at a pop-up restaurant inside the Brooklyn Fare store for $70 per person. Three years and three Michelin…
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I’m not Greek, but I sure do love my lamb. For Greek Easter this year, I was unable to join my friends in Boston for a full-on lamb roast because of new responsibilities at home (read: a new Rottweiler). But I didn’t want to miss the celebration so I biked over to Fairway supermarket, bought…
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73 Warren Street between West Broadway and Greenwich Streets under $15 for lunch 212/791.6300 ♥ ♥ I walked by this new spot in TriBeCa the other day and I had to stop and peek in because it looked like a cute IKEA cafeteria inside (in that yellow chair/wooden table kind of way). I’ve been working…
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Talk about an easy salad. My friend Stacie of OneHungryMama turned me on to this salad via Instagram. She adapted it from Homemade with Love by Jennifer Perillo. Ingredients: 1 tbsp sherry vinegar 2 tbsps olive oil juice of half a lemon salt pepper 1/2 bulb fennel, thinly sliced 1 can of chickpeas, washed and…
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Ever since I moved to my Harlem apartment, I had to keep myself from buying any more new cookbooks. It was hard enough to pare down my copies when I moved in, so I’m trying not to accumulate any more new stuff. I mostly borrow from the New York Public Library now just to get…
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This recipe is from Filipino Top Chef Dale Talde. Don’t be fooled by the name; he used a simple fried chicken batter and applied it to beef. The original version required 1/2 cup of milk to make the batter, but I only had almond milk in the fridge that I didn’t really want to use,…
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Wow. I’m not the biggest dessert fan, but wow. I saw the photo of this recipe with the rock salt on top and I was immediately tempted to make it. Shauna was coming over with a bottle of wine to catch up, so I thought why not make dinner for the both of us while…
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This is the non-baker’s version of green tea layer cake. The original recipe called for two extra steps to make frosting, but I didn’t want to buy all those extra ingredients to make this sweeter than I really wanted it to be. I wanted this cake to be more like an afternoon snack–with hot tea–rather…
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This Henan Chinese recipe was adapted from Danny Bowien of Mission Chinese Food, a Sichuan restaurant that opened in New York City with a lot of promise but, to me, lacking of flavor. I looked forward to the San Francisco-based restaurant opening here, but when I finally made it with my friend Lauren, I was…
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90 Wythe Avenue corner of North 11th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn $120 each for 2 people, without drinks, without tip 718/388.2969 ♥ ♥ I never got the chance to check out the Kinfolk Studio space when it housed the pop-up Frej, but when my friend Josh started working at what is now Aska, I really had…