Boutros Review – Mediterranean Food – Brooklyn, NY
Dinner last night at Boutros, which we passed on our way to another restaurant but couldn't resist once we read the menu! The first photo is of their version of a tiramisu, but I started with the...
View ArticleSpeedy Romeo Pizza Review – New York – Lower East Side
Dinner last night Speedy Romeo, and my friends and I could not stop talking about how good it was! I've heard good things about this pizzeria for years but didn't have a reason to visit until we went...
View ArticleHill Country Food Park Review
Tried out the new Hill Country Food Park in Downtown Brooklyn! Hill Country BBQ was always our go-to neighborhood spot, so life was ROUGH while it was closed down for renovations, but I absolutely love...
View ArticleEleven Madison Park, Redesigned
Before we visited the new Eleven Madison Park, I read the best article about the most earnest things about the redesign, and they’re just adorable. My favorite is the stairstep leading up into the...
View ArticleThe Tasting Menu at Le Cinq, Four Seasons Hotel, Paris
I read aaaaall about the ten restaurants in Paris with three Michelin stars before my fiancé and I visited with the hope that one would stand out to me. Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée was the most...
View ArticleMamma Guidara’s at The NoMad Bar
If you’ve ever thought, “Boy, I sure love Eleven Madison Park, but wouldn’t it be great if the chef instead used his immense skills to make me a chicken parm?”, Mamma Guidara’s is for you. It’s Chef...
View ArticleChef David Santos’s Secret NYC Dinner Club, Um Segredo, at Good Stock
I’ve followed my favorite NYC chef from his West Village restaurant Louro to his taking-the-city-by-storm soup venture, Good Stock, but what made me first fall in love with Chef David Santos‘s cooking...
View ArticleThe Tasting Menu at Agern
Had you asked me a week ago if I had any interest in Nordic cuisine, I would’ve given you something like a polite, “Sure, I’m interested in all cuisines!” And then, you know, gone back to eating my...
View ArticleThe Tasting Menu at Senses – Warsaw, Poland
I’m not sure people think of creative fine dining when they think of Poland, so it’s not surprising that Warsaw’s Senses restaurant only has one Michelin star, even if that’s a crime. My boyfriend and...
View ArticleBowery Meat Company is Weirdly Worth the Money
Last year, I spent a week on a yacht touring some of the islands of Greece with my boyfriend and three of his friends. One of those friends was visiting NYC last week from Romania, so I wanted to take...
View ArticleKellogg’s NYC in Times Square
I try to avoid carbs and sugar in my day-to-day life, so I never let myself have cereal for breakfast. I can’t tell you the last time I ate it, but I’m guessing it was in college, and it was probably...
View ArticleGabriel Kreuther Probably Deserves More Than One Michelin Star
Chef Gabriel Kreuther left the Michelin-starred Modern a couple of years ago and took his pastry chef with him to open up his new namesake space in the Grace Building across from Bryant Park. Beloved...
View ArticleDuran Sandwiches Brings Europe to NYC
Last week, I was surprised by a visit from to Tom Szebeni, the CEO of Duran Sandwiches with a huge box of his handmade European-style open-faced slices of wonder. I knew I was getting a complimentary...
View ArticleLuksus Probably Deserves Its One Michelin Star
Luksus, the Nordic tasting-menu-only restaurant hidden behind a door in Greenpoint’s Tørst beer bar, has been on my list for a long time as a Brooklynite who’d love to never have to leave the borough...
View ArticleRocco Steakhouse Has the Big, Fat Bacon and the Schlag
The only thing better than being invited to try out a complimentary dinner at a new restaurant is being invited to try out a steakhouse. Rocco Steakhouse is the mastermind of owner Rocco Trotta, who...
View ArticleThe Tasting Menu at Agern
Had you asked me a week ago if I had any interest in Nordic cuisine, I would’ve given you something like a polite, “Sure, I’m interested in all cuisines!” And then, you know, gone back to eating my...
View ArticleThe Tasting Menu at Senses – Warsaw, Poland
I’m not sure people think of creative fine dining when they think of Poland, so it’s not surprising that Warsaw’s Senses restaurant only has one Michelin star, even if that’s a crime. My boyfriend and...
View ArticleBowery Meat Company is Weirdly Worth the Money
Last year, I spent a week on a yacht touring some of the islands of Greece with my boyfriend and three of his friends. One of those friends was visiting NYC last week from Romania, so I wanted to take...
View ArticleKellogg’s NYC in Times Square
I try to avoid carbs and sugar in my day-to-day life, so I never let myself have cereal for breakfast. I can’t tell you the last time I ate it, but I’m guessing it was in college, and it was probably...
View ArticleGabriel Kreuther Probably Deserves More Than One Michelin Star
Chef Gabriel Kreuther left the Michelin-starred Modern a couple of years ago and took his pastry chef with him to open up his new namesake space in the Grace Building across from Bryant Park. Beloved...
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