Mid-week review spectacular

Babies! We finally have some movement from the stodgy grounds of mid-week restaurant reviews. Seems like these elders do have some life in them. There is a pulse. We have a heartbeat doctor.
- My lord! Bruni re-reviews Ssam Bar (after only a year but whateves) and drops 3 stars on my latest obsession. Don’t hate [...]

Pre-Turkey Reviews

(happy dance)
Tomorrow is my favorite day of the year next to my birthday and the day CDG was released at H&M.
Here are our top reviews for the week:
- Bruni titles his review of Double Crown “The Empire Strikes Back“. I love him for it. He notes Double Crown “ponders the glories of culinary cross-pollination, making [...]

Wedz Revs

Am I nuts or is nothing fancy happening with these stodgy old men?

- Da Bruni two-stars West Village fave Market Table. Haven’t we all been raving about this place for 2 years now? C’mon. Git with the program.
- New York Mag’s Platty visits newly menu-ed Irving Mill and finds Ryan Skeen’s new menu to be…porky…and [...]

Hump Day Reviews: hmph. snooze.

Another Wednesday brings us another round of terribly snooze inducing reviews. Can someone inject some speed into the veins of these guys so we can get something interesting going on? I’ll pay you.

- Frank Bruni finds West Village hot spot Bobo predictable and assuming. Calls the gnocchi “arrestingly bland in taste”. Must use that line [...]

Wednesday Reviews

Sorry to be so late with this one babies but I must say…I am tres uninspired with this weeks reviews. I am totes sure it has to do with the late summer slump, people on vacay and our lovely reviewers being on The South Beach Diet. No, I joke. I am sure they are revving [...]

Wednesday Reviews

- F. Bruni two stars the popular East Village Italian Perbacco. I’ve been here many times but apparently there is a new, young, Italian chef of which Bruni muses “something is indeed happening here” calling Perbacco “experimental, Lupa meets WD-50″. SOLD. [NYT]
- Platty one stars Jean-Georges favorite Matsugen. Calls it “tepid, non–Jean-Georges cooking”. I never [...]

Yummy, thank you

Another summer night in NYC brings me another last minute ressie, this time at Scarpetta, Scott Conant’s uptown-goes-downtown Italian eatery. As the former chef/owner of L’Impero and Alto, Conant mastered the art of the high end Midtown Italian resto and after taking a self-imposed hiatus for about a year, he opened Scarpetta in May. Here, [...]

Wednesday Reviews

it’s a good week.
- No shocker: Bruni 3 stars Jean-Georges’ Matsugen, says it “spans every facet of a meal”. I’m considering thinking of Matsugen as NYC’s best restaurant.
- Restaurant Girl goes to Brooklyn and pays a visit to my boyfriend James. She approves of him and throws him 3 stars and thinks “if we were [...]

Wednesday Reviews

nothing wrong with RDJ eye candy to get us through the day.
- The Bruni visits Persimmon, a “neo” Korean, Momofuku-ish East Village restaurant. It’s also BYOB. TO-DO: Persimmon.
- Sietsema visits Keur Mame Diarra in Harlem for Senegalese cuisine. This sounds on point and incredible interesting. Cheebu jen anyone?
- Andrea Strong eats…well…a burger at 5 Napkin [...]

Wednesday Reviews

Pasta @ Scarpetta
- Frank Bruni waxes poetic on Scott Connant, the tomato and Scarpetta, giving the new Italian three stars. Yes, that’s right, three.
- Julia Moskin takes on Flushing, Queens and my fave: Chinese food. Check out the list of 20 places to eat. Food tour anyone?
- Restaurant Girl goes haute barnyard at Forge and [...]