July 25, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Argentina Kultur Shock
Escaping NY Summer in Buenos Aires, Snow, $15 steak dinners, Patagonia wines.
July 13, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Nish Talks / Solace
Nish Talks...Solace for the Neighborhood…Sip cucumber cooler from Blue Smoke.
July 5, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Borough Warmup
Well now we know Zak Pelaccio can shop…but if it weren’t for Fatty Crab…
July 2, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Hill Country BBQ
...hunkering down to nibble chunks of brisket ripped off greasy butcher paper...
June 29, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Sirio's Makeover
In Tuscany Sirio is a hero…as a makeover team tackles the limping Le Cirque.
June 27, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Dean's Pizza
Well, actually all pizza is like sex. When it’s not so great it’s still pretty good. So my pulse is racing…
June 24, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Critic’s Dilemma
A restaurant critic’s moral acrobatics: critics who advertise their arrival by reserving in their own name
June 22, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Rayuela’s Labyrinth
With its sophistication and ambition, Rayuela is primed to seduce. A critic’s moral acrobatics.
June 19, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Gaucho Steak
A lusty down-and-out air, trend-flaunting carnivores skirt steak cowboys
June 17, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Seduction at E.A.T.
We march down shockingly deli-and-café-challenged upper Madison…Sunday bargain at Rain...
June 12, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Sopranos: Just Desserts
The wimpy bastards didn't have the guts to end it true. Don't they realize they owe us?...Now it's left to us, the restaurant critics.
June 6, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Gilt Glows
It was Definitely-Worth-the-Splurge. Quiet. Romantic. Elegant, old-fashioned service.
June 6, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Sfoglia’s Meatball
In a constellation of meatballs as charted Wednesday by the DiningOut seers of the New York Times, Sfoglia’s monkfish orb would be my moon.
June 2, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Hampton Eats
In golden olden Hampton days we cooked. Not now.
June 1, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Tutto Il Giorno Heat
We’ll go to this little shack on the water in Sag after the movie,” says my East Hampton pal. “It’s small and sweet and...nobody knows it’s there.
May 29, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Out of the Mouths of Crocodiles
What a relief is right. Well, three weeks late is not bad for a brand new website, internet jockeys tell me. Here’s what I’m hearing.
May 28, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
From Alaska to the Bronx with Chodorow
Jeffrey Chodorow was so ticked off by Platt’s lukewarm billet doux to Wild Salmon… the wild eyed feeding baron was threatening to take another full page ad…
May 27, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
79th Street Boat Basin Café Sunset
79th Street Boat Basin Café Sunset
The long Memorial Day weekend exodus seems like a blessing. Who’s in town beside the fleet?
May 17, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Stanton Social
Suddenly Stanton Social seemed the perfect place to celebrate the Road Food Warrior's birthday.
May 16, 2007 | BITE: My Journal
Can Sandro Go Home Again?
I contemplated a first visit to the new Sandro’s somewhere up there in the wilds of the upper east side. I wasn’t rushing.