In honor of the dearly departed

This evening, I bring you a special post dedicated to one of my besties, food-in-crime-ing, bike-riding, 9-to-5 hating, photo loving, fame-whore-ing, all around funny man, Emiliano.
Since Emi got smart and departed the shores of Manhattan for the bright lights of Brooklyn, it was only fitting that I send him off with a list of top [...]

I’ll have the celery//Name dropping on The City

Surely you watched The City Monday night. SURELY you did. The ever lovable and vacant Whitney Port has done it: she left everything she knew behind in Hell-ay and headed for a faux job at DVF in NYC. And like any New Yorker, she takes cabs to work and wears stilletos every day (what? you DON’T?). Most [...]

Ahhh//Amaranth

Due to a certain Mr. A and his local neighborhood haunts where he pleasantly gets greeted by name, I’ve been to Amaranth quite a few times in the past few months and it’s quickly come to be on my lurve list. 
Located a dangerous block away from Barney’s on 62nd b/t 5th and Madison, Amaranth is a warm, sexy 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 [...]

Dining and Imbibing with: Pet and Snoel, Part Deux

 
Into a cab we went and headed from the West Village to the East and were ushered into Ssam Bar and to a table for 3 rather swiftly. I do believe it was a small miracle (read: recessionista) that we were able to avoid any wait at all. As we sat down, I noticed the [...]

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 [...]

I’m not quite sure what to say…

Espana Viva
Did you guys see last weeks epi of No Reservations? Where Bourdain goes to Spain? HI. It was the most envied episode of any show I have ever seen in my life. I have never had a stronger desire to be somewhere else than during that hour long episode where AB tours the gastronomical [...]

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 [...]

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!

La Nacional

This weekend, after a few days away and a few too many cocktails, I dragged myself to the West Village/Meatpacking area for a nice dinner with the GIP and JK at La Nacional, a tapas bar founded in 1868 as a gathering spot for the Benevolent Spanish Society. The restaurant is a bit hard to [...]