April 19, 1999 | Insatiable Critic
Double Your Pleasure
Now that Daniel Boulard has opened a $10 million celebration of the seasons just eleven blocks south of Café Boulud, his real rival may turn out to be himself.
December 29, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Chow, Manhattan
Just when it seemed like the restaurant madness of the eighties was safely in remission, everyone and his dentist wants to play the game again. And one bistro simply isn’t enough. Finding the gems in a rubble of cubic zirconia is my job. When friends call for advice, here’s what I say...
December 28, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Where to eat in 1999
From fabulous French to Asian fusion, from brand-name bistros to secret passions, where to eat in 1999.
December 14, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Eating by the Numbers
Whaddaya want on your pizza? Peking duck, smoked salmon, and tandoori chicken at One3 in the Village prove it's a small world after all.
October 19, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Remembering Joe Baum
We who are his survivors are anxious about confronting the millenium now that Joe Baum isn't staging the party. There would have been caviar, rainbows, Rockettes, perhaps a flight into outer space. Extravagance was not an issue. It's easy enough to say his death ends an era... But Joseph H. Baum did invent a new way to feel about dinner...
October 12, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Unfinished Symphony
La Fourchette is a lonely pioneer, a culinary outpost on the farthest edge of the Upper East Side -- and it's this close to becoming the season's first instant classic...
July 20, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Plantain Hollywood
Latino stars, salsa swingers, Yankees in mufti, and a trickle of downtown swells fuel the heat at Jimmy's Bronx Cafe, home of cosmic soup and Godzilla lobsters.
July 13, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Plantain Hollywood
Latino stars, salsa swingers, Yankees in mufti, and a trickle of downtown swells fuel the heat at Jimmy's Bronx Cafe, home of cosmic soup and Godzilla lobsters...
June 15, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Good in Bread
The Bromberg Brothers yearned to play with flour. All it took was yeast and a resurrected oven to make the Blue Ribbon Bakery rise in the West Village.
June 8, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Tropica
In midtown, Frank Deletrain is at home swimming with the fishes at Tropica...
June 8, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Morel High Ground
Rémi Lauvand takes the range at TriBeCa's Montrachet, bringing memories of France (and a superior $19.98 lunch) worthy of the house Burgundies...
June 8, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Next Up at the Plate
Tom Valenti unpacks his lamb shanks on the Upper East Side.
June 1, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Divine Oeuvre-kill
The Waldorf's Peacock Alley struts and stumbles to the strains of a harp; Provence gets a workout at Jean Lafitte on West 58th.
May 18, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Trees Chic
Hungry? Make a dash for green acres. American Park brings fusion fuss to the Battery, and there's a stylish new tack at Central Park's Boathouse.
April 27, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
Holy Mackerel
Here we go again -- overnight, BondSt in NoHo is hotter than wasabi, the place to cross chopsticks with the neighborhood's parading mantises.
April 20, 1998 | Insatiable Critic
The Joe of Cooking
Joe's . . . Again spices memory with ego as a new team tries comfort food and fancy tricks to jolly an old Village joint back to life.