The Noble Noodle Bowl – 8th Ave Noodles
A versatile ingredient if there ever was one, noodles are especially good at adding both nutritional and belly filling substance to one of the oldest and least expensive forms of sustenance…soup....
View ArticleKofte Piyaz – Turkish Grilled Meatballs And Bean Salad
Have you ever been asked the question, “If you could have a super power, what would it be?”. Sure, most people would say they’d like to be able to fly or be invisible, but I think a really handy super...
View ArticleDon Paco Lopez Panaderia – Half bakery…half tamale paradise
Isn’t it crazy how having a hankering for something can quickly elevate to a full on quest? It happens more times than not with Nick and I. We set our minds on finding something (fresh venison,...
View ArticleTalde – Dale Talde takes you around Asia in a delicious and quirky way
The hubby and I have been making the Top Chef rounds in NYC as of late. It’s not exactly that we had a plan to visit restaurants run by Top Chef contestant, judges and the like. It just ends up that...
View ArticleThe Castello Plan
It seems you can’t swing a dead cat in Brooklyn these days without hitting a neighborhood in the midst of gentrification…or, at least that’s what the NY news sites are saying, ad nauseum. It does...
View ArticleDi Fara, Totonno’s and Luigi’s – Representing Brooklyn in the NY Pizza World
If NYC has thousands of pizza places you’d think there would be enough for everyone and never a line out the door or a two hour wait for a slice. You thought wrong. There’s probably really only 50 or...
View ArticleLioni Italian Heroes – Champions Of The Sandwich World
Wherever I live I learn to adapt. Whether north, south, east or west I’m willing and eager to embrace local ways. I’ll try calling soda pop. The term fixin’ to becomes part of my everyday...
View ArticleCrif Dogs – Taking The NY Hot Dog To Another Level
Drunk minds think alike, or at least so it seems. After an evening of serious drinking you don’t often find yourself in an establishment surrounded by sober folks. Drunks do as other drunks do and...
View ArticleGanso – Get To This New(ish) Ramen Joint Quickly, Before The Rest Of New York...
If you live in New York you wait in lines. A lot of them. Get used to it. If something is cheap there’s bound to be a line. If something is good there’s bound to be a line. And god help you if...
View ArticleMile End Deli – Move over corned beef and pastrami…smoked meat is in the house
Mile End Deli My father always “knows a guy” or has “a very good friend” he refers me to each and every time I go anywhere or do anything new. “Jessie. I hear you’re going to Rome. You know, I swim...
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