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August - It's Global Cooling - and It's Fregola on the Menu 19 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
So...after my last rant about the miserable heat of July and the scoring of restaurants based on their air-conditionability, the temperature immediately dropped and August has been anything other than...
More Bitching About Restaurants and A/C 31 Jul 2013 | 04:27 pm
Okay, okay - I know it's been fairly pleasant temperature-wise (here in NYC) over the past week or so. Christ, I even have the windows open every day; that is, until about 3 in the afternoon, when the...
It's All Greek To Me - at Mike Isabella's Kapnos, That Is 23 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
The Yelpers have, well...yelped. The "pro" reviews (are there any of those left?) will no doubt be in shortly. No one waits for a restaurant to get its sea legs any more, do they? Especially when a ...
Delray Beach Has Some Nice Rack's 17 Jun 2013 | 10:17 pm
Sometimes you have to, just have to, spend some time in a place that you wouldn’t necessarily pick to go to as your first choice. Maybe it’s because someone else has chosen the place; perhaps you’ve ...
Asparagus. Why Not? 30 May 2013 | 04:45 am
Since everyone else and his brother and father and mother and sister are writing about asparagus, I guess I have to too. I'll keep it brief. One... Two... Three... Penne with asparagus, shallots,...
Alder: Not Your Daddy's Gastro Pub 13 May 2013 | 08:49 pm
Congrats are definitely in order for any number of NYC chefs/food people who won Beard awards last week. But my tip of the hat goes to Wylie Dufresne, who won Best Chef NYC (and of course his whole t...
Aramark, Citi Field, The Mets, Danny Meyer and Kiss My Ass 29 Apr 2013 | 06:02 pm
Is there anything worse than "your" team (I'm talking the Mets here) losing, at home, to those powder-puff blue dandies, the L. A. Dodgers? I mean, especially when you trudge all the way out to Shea ...
All Birthdays Aren't Happy 18 Apr 2013 | 08:17 am
You hear all sorts of things. They can hear you. They feel your presence. They want you there with them. They don't want you there. And on and on. What I'm talking about is listening to the various o...
Annoying Food Things #2 (Week of 4/1/13) 5 Apr 2013 | 04:17 pm
It's just not gonna be that hard to come up with 3 every week... 1. Waiter, waitress, busser, host, whomever coming over every 2 minutes asking us: "Are you done with that plate?" And then taking 1...
José's Jaleo - An Original at 20 3 Apr 2013 | 11:02 pm
In Washington, D.C. 20 years ago, Chef José Andrés opened what was then one of the first restaurants in the U.S. to focus on serving tapas...that restaurant was, and still is, Jaleo. It sparked a rev...
