Latin Beet Kitchen Fall Preview
Latin Beet Kitchen is the newish restaurant connected to the front of Raymi, the fancy Peruvian restaurant on 24th Street. I've been wondering what this place was. I've seen a few people eat out in the front ou...
Bagatelle and the Rise of the Instagrammers
Last week, I was invited to a food blogger dinner at Bagatelle in the Meatpacking District. I haven't been invited to a food blog event in a while. I kind of felt that food blogs had been on their way out for a...
SoCo’s Buttermilk Fried Chicken & Red Velvet Waffle
I'm a fan of Chicken and Waffles. I remember the first time I've ever heard of Chicken and Waffles, I was in Atlanta as a teenager with my mom and sister in the early 90's. We kept driving past Gladys Knight's ...
Fuku Spicy Chicken Sandwich
I finally got to try David Chang's Spicy Fried Chicken Sandwich at Fuku in the East Village.
The line and wait wasn't that bad around 7pm on a Friday. The line initially looks bad leading out the door, but i...
Chimu Peruvian Restaurant
I'm a big fan of Chimu's Tallarin Verde con Skirt Steak (steak with green basil spaghetti and fried potatoes $19). The thing that makes it great is when you add the green sauce they give you with the corn nuts ...
Queen of Sheba Ethiopian Restaurant
Ooh man, Queen of Sheba is so good. I got the Taste of Sheba combination platter (tibs wot (9) menchet abesh wot (10), menchet alecha (11), gomen besega (15), bozena shiro (16), wot (1), and yebeg alecha (2)) f...
Arrogant Swine BBQ
Finally tried the newish barbecue joint in East Williamsburg/Bushwick, Arrogant Swine. I've heard mixed reviews about this place from friends, but I thought it was pretty good.
Got the Outside Brown (chunks ...
Faro (Bushwick)
There's a new restaurant in Jefftown from a former chef from Northeast Kingdom. It's a pasta restaurant. But I don't eat much carbs. So I got the Mallard Duck Breast. The duck was good. I don't know what else t...