Category: American
Reviews of New American Restaurants in New York City
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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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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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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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41-16 Queens Boulevard, Sunnyside, Queens $40 each for 4 people, with drinks, with tip 718/433.3702 ♥ ♥ Taking advantage of Queens while one of my favorite eating partners is in town from Chicago, we visited Salt & Fat with her brother to check out the scene in what is a very unfamiliar part of the…
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109 A North 3rd Street between Berry and Wythe in Williamsburg, Brooklyn $86 each for 3 people, with 3 drinks apiece, without tip 718/782.2602 ♥ ♥ ♥ The disclaimer here is that I made a small investment on Parish Hall to finally fulfill one of my dreams of being a small part of the restaurant…
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38 Wythe Street off South 2nd Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 347/689.3594 $70 each for 2 people, with 2 drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ When Eater.com announced that Masten Lake would be closing, a small part of me hurt. I haven’t been in a restaurant that was as delicious and creative as Masten Lake since…
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285 Bedford Avenue between South 1st Street and Grand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 718/599.5565 around $125 for 2, with 3 drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ I was talking to my friend Stacie about where we’ve both eaten lately and as we went through our list, she said, There really hasn’t been anything exciting since Momofuku…
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310 Lenox Avenue between 125th and 126th Streets 212/792.9001 $86 for three, without drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ I’m very familiar with the Harlem Sunday brunch crowd. I’ve biked enough past the Baptist churches on Adam Clayton and Lenox Avenues to know that after service, large crowds gather at the nearby bakery or join the…
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103 West 77th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues 212/362-3800 about $167 for two, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ Oh, this is your place? asked John Fraser, Dovetail’s chef. Erin and I ran into him as we were leaving the restaurant and we started telling him about our vegetarian-vegan restaurant project for this…
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I had one day off between the old job and the next, so I planned a sandwich tour to make up for all those missed New York City lunches while I was in Connecticut. Three sandwich shops were recommended to me by my friend Josh; I needed his help because I’ve been out of the…