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January 11, 2017
11 Favorites I Discovered in 2016
I’ve been going out for dinner six nights a week. On...
December 14, 2015
It Isn’t Easy to Name the Best Dishes of 2015
After a longish mea culpa, I am now going to try to...
July 13, 2015
Where are you sending friends now?
Where do I eat when I’m not hustling to find something...
December 16, 2013
Feeding the Folks: Where to Go
HE'S KOSHER. SHE'S VEGETARIAN. WHERE CAN I MAKE BOTH...
May 14, 2012
Where can I take my 13-year-old to sample New York’s best food without breaking the bank?
Like his mother, my son loves to eat. I am trying to...

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June 1, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Locanda Verde
It’s possible that the management team here is more celebrated than tonight’s VIPs and visiting foodies. Clearly Robert DeNiro and his partners at the Greenwich Hotel mean business…

May 26, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Pho Sure Pho Bulus
If shoestring has charm, this is it...

May 18, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Table 8 Transplant
I want this place to be good. Not just for the...

May 11, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Bar Artisanal/Armani
How quickly downtown’s nomadic grazers swooped in. It’s Saturday night. Leggy girlfriends perch at lounge tables, sipping cocktails, eyeing a milling crowd….

May 4, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Bouleymania
Bouley was on a jag, drunk with the dream of it. So sue me. I’m a fool for vulnerability in a man. After his fiasco at Secession…

April 27, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Monkey Bar/Telepan
Oh no, here we are again, outcasts at Hogwarts, I’m thinking as we walk up to the locked door of Graydon Carter’s new Monkey Bar…

April 20, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Slash and Trim
Roberta's: Is this bombed out Bushwick street the newest...

April 13, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Anthos Upstairs/Keste Pizza
I mostly love this chef's lively riffs on Greek cooking at Anthos...

April 6, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Italy/Eating Up Italy
Now we’re in Italy, tagging along on a gastronomical discovery tour with chef Cesare Casella, and All-Bran topped with fruit…

March 23, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Fatty Crab Uptown
The rumored cloning of Fat and Crabby on Broadway seemed yet another gift in the great gastronomic greening of my own Upper West Side haunt...

March 16, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Old News/Minetta Tavern
Forks clashed, egos were mashed. A committee mulled the list of reservation hopefuls that afternoon and by seven the chosen began to claim their tables at the new old…

March 9, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Eating LA: Animal. Mozza. Bazaar. Rivera.
I twitter and shiver at the word “pig” on a menu – constant vibration in these porky times - so how can I resist a restaurant called Animal

March 2, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Oak Bar/Meat Cute in LA
Maybe in another time the Oak Room would have had a chance. I can’t exactly imagine when exactly for this once upon a time “Men Only” retreat…

February 23, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
‘Inoteca/Flex Mussels
The doctors Denton – Jason and brother Joe – have found a sure-fire cure for their ailing Bar Milano on Third Avenue, just right for the times… Delete it. Paste in its place ‘Inoteca, a familiar joint with devoted fans…

February 16, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Bravo Moi / Pinching Pennies
I am definitely in the valley of the masters...

February 9, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Four Seasons at 50
I’m always anxious when I walk in. I don't want...

February 2, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
La Fonda del Sol
The headline is this: Josh De Chellis seems to have found his cooking mojo again – sophisticated but more accessible than what he did at Sumile and it’s only a week into…

January 26, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Corton Again / Gotham Miami
Drew Nieporent has Paul Liebrandt under his wing. Or was it vice versa? Had the obstreperous young Brit kidnapped the sage veteran...

January 20, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
Defrosting in Miami
Bargain flights and icy wind chill conspire to lure more weekenders than I expected. Bankrupt moguls, the nouveaux pauvres and the recently unemployed need a soothing retreat at these cut-rate prices…

January 12, 2009 | BITE: My Journal
West Branch/Dovetail
Tom Valenti has long been a hero of the Upper West Side, our Buffalo Bill, braving the far outer steppes when Broadway was mostly retail and coffeeshops…

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