M. Wells

30. March 2011 Anglo-Euro, French, Queens 2
21-17 49th Avenue off 21st Street, Long Island City, Queens 718/425.6917 $330 for five, with drinks, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ It’s rare that I eat out these days mostly because there’s something in my life now called “mortgage”, but when I do go, I make sure that I’m with a good group of people ...

Red Rooster

02. February 2011 American, West + East Harlem 0
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 ...

ilili

236 Fifth Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets 212/683.2929 around $125 for 4, with drinks, with tip ♥ ♥ After thirteen days eating fresh seafood and vegetables in Dominica for both lunch and dinner, all I wanted to eat upon returning to New York was a bloody steak. It was godsend that Miriam was still ...

Kin Shop

469 Sixth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets 212/675.4295 $100 for two with tip, with one cocktail wheelchair patron may wheel in, but bathrooms are downstairs ♥ ♥ The last time I was on Sixth Avenue above 8th Street, I was at Jefferson Market buying blood sausages after a stranger tipped me about the store ...