Category: American
Reviews of New American Restaurants in New York City
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246 DeKalb Avenue at Vanderbilt, Fort Greene, Brooklyn 718/789.2778 about $70 for two, with two drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ A lot of my friends live in Brooklyn and they’ve been encouraging me to check out the restaurants in their borough. I’m slowly making my way down the list but iCi has always been the…
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64 Charles Street on West 4th 646/486.2185 about $200 for four, with two bottles of wine, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ For a restaurant that wasn’t selected by me–I met friends from out of town there–I was really surprised at how good our meals were at Mary’s Fish Camp. I’ve been to Pearl Oyster Bar…
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155 West 51st Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues 212/554.1515 about $300 for two, with matching drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ After dining at Le Bernardin for the Dr.’s birthday, I realized that it shouldn’t be categorized as French. The name may be French but the menu definitely screams New American. There were a…
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54 East 1st Street between First and Second Avenues 212/677.6221 about $75 for three, without drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ Prune’s selections are influenced by different cuisines and that’s exactly what I liked about Chef Gabrielle Hamilton’s style. The tripe is a must-try even though you don’t like tripe. In Barcelona, I ate a lot…
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501 11th street off Seventh Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn 718/768.2044 $160 for two, with several drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ I believe it’s called skill when a chef can take a cheap cut of veal and mask it as if it’s not part of the animal’s chewy shoulder. And I believe that it’s only…
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232 Elizabeth Street between Houston and Prince 212/625.2345 $57 for one, with four drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ Both times I’ve eaten at Bar Bossa, I sat in the back room with a group of friends where bathroom visitors always say, Oh, I didn’t know there was a table back here. Sitting in the back…
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280 5th Avenue between 1st Street and Garfield Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn 718/840.0404 about $300 for three, with several drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ It’s been years since I’ve been to Park Slope. The Dr. used to live there and it was back then when he took me to Blue Ribbon for dinner. My brother…
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62 Prince Street corner of Lafayette 212/219.2129 about $15 for one, with a drink, without tip ♥ A really uncool name for such a great space and location, SoHo Park opened this week to all kinds of hungry and curious visitors. There were fashionable girls in line while the Brooks Brothers-wearing boys sat at the…
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105 Reade Street between Church and Broadway 212/406.1900 about $55 for one, with two drinks, without tip ♥ For a $28 lunch prix fixe, my shellfish crepe with spinach was very satisfying. It included a scallop, small pieces of lobster and crab plus shrimps sandwiched in a soft crepe swimming in crab broth. I would…
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2492 Broadway corner of 93rd Street 212/721.9999 about $60 for two hungry people, with tip ♥ Before: After the Cia and Cameron hurricane hit:
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57225 Main Road, Southold, North Fork, Long Island 631/765.0177 about $250 for two, with four drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ From Chef Gerry Hayden, of Manhattan’s Aureole and Amuse, and Gramercy Tavern’s pastry chef Claudia Fleming, comes a huge effort. The menu concentrates on the island’s freshest produce including seafood from Peconic Bay and the…
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2110 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard off 126th Street 212/280.7437 $110 for two, with two drinks, without tip no stars Updated, 2007: Pier 2110 was short-lived I’ve been living more than twelve years uptown, three of those in Harlem. When I go to a restaurant in the neighborhood, I’ve come to expect that there’d be…