Myne own top 10’s of 2008//following then breaking from the pack

 
I’m sick of all of your top tens. Yes you. You food writers with no personality and bloggers with too much time and magazines and newspapers who think they have the final say. Hmph. Waitaminute.WAITaminute. Fine. Ok. Fine. I’ll just do myne own top tens as you wish and send you off with a merry [...]

Felice Wine Bar//quel surprise

It has been a long time since I have been surprised by the food or wine being  event good at an unexpected restaurant. Most of the time, when I dine out, I have a general idea of whether a meal will be successful or not via reviews I’ve read, opinions of close friends or my [...]

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, [...]

Indoors are for suckers

Eat outside instead.
Grub Street has a dope map of resty’s with sidewalk seats. Plug in your addy and grub on. I totally just used this for dinner tonight!

Top Chef NYC

While it’s old news that this seasons Top Chef is taping in NYC and that the cheffers will be living at 20 Bayard in Willy Bee its very new news that most of the action (read: quick fires, judges tables) will be held at The Benjamin Hotel.
From Page 666:
“Top Chef gets more vicious every season, [...]

Vive la France!

Stormin’ the Bastille
Joyeux Bastille Day! If you are a francophile or enjoy the idea of democracy or any sort of socialist idea, you will surely want to celebrate the day the French overthrew the monarchy by eating and loving all things French:
BENOIT: On Bastille Day (that’s today) the newest restaurant from French chef Alain Ducasse [...]

Trumor: Top Chef digs

Here’s where AT and I will be this summer.

Fresh flick

I can’t wait to see The Wackness. I. can’t. wait.
Set in that sweltering summer of 1994 NYC, it’s basically an ode to my coming-of-age-hood. Or, at least I hope it will be. Judging from the fact that writer/director Jonathan Levine is the younger brother of a kid we all used to know back in the [...]