Category: New York Restaurant Reviews
New York City Restaurant Reviews
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157 Duane Street between West Broadway and Hudson Streets about $200 for 3 people, with drinks, without tip 212/587.1089 ♥ ♥ ♥ What is Laotian food? I actually have no idea even after spending a week in Luang Prabang a couple of years ago. What I got from that trip, food-wise, was the same delicious…
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7 Spring Street between Elizabeth and Bowery $216 for 2 people, with a lot of drinks, with tip 646/370.6650 ♥ ♥ What?! I can’t hear you!, was my reply to our waiter when he tried to tell us that squeezing some lime juice on our food will make them taste better. The truth of the…
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432 6th Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets $68 for 3 people, with drinks, without tip 212/677.8626 ♥ ♥ I’ve tasted an Umami burger in Los Angeles before but the craziness that surrounded its New York opening sent me on a Citibike to check it out. Jase, Dash, Harry and I put our names down…
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321 West 51st Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues $115 for 2 people, with drinks, with tip 212/974.2500 ♥ ♥ Ippudo without the wait? You don’t say! We stopped by the new Ippudo in Hell’s Kitchen during their soft opening week and were whisked upstairs to sit in front of the still-unused kitchen covered in…
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206 Spring Street between Sixth Avenue and Sullivan Street $155 for 2 people, with drinks, with tip 212/334.3320 ♥ ♥ ♥ Matt wanted to buy me dinner while he was in town, so naturally I dragged him to the newest Michael White restaurant I can’t afford. It was 10pm and I was a bit worried…
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1372 York Avenue between East 73rd and 74th Streets $100 each for 5 people, omakase with 3 shared appetizers, with tip; BYOB 646/727.9056 ♥ ♥ ♥ You know when a restaurant review comes out and it fucks it up for everyone else? This is it.
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41 West 57th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues $120 each for 2 people, with drinks, with tip 212/465.2400 ♥ ♥ ♥ The disclaimer here is that I know someone in the kitchen at Betony. I met Josh in 2008 when I went to the Spotted Pig for Fergus Henderson’s visit from the UK. Josh…
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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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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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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…