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Rum Along to Ambiance The ambiance at Ambiance can be summed up in one word: green. The walls glow lime green, the wainscoting dark marbleized green, while the bulbs... More>>
Published: November 03, 2009
Doggy Style in Park Slope: Bark Hot Dogs Wear your sunglasses as you exit the 2 or 3 train at Bergen Street, because the giant neon sign that spells out B-A-R-K glows with thousands of... More>>
Published: October 27, 2009
Brighton Beach's KeBeer Bar & Grill It's been nine years since Zum Schneider debuted on Avenue C, kindling a minor craze for German beer gardens. This being New York City, many are... More>>
Published: October 13, 2009
Quinto Quarto Brings a Bit of Rome to the Village I haven't had such killer bucatini amatriciana ($11) since the last time I was in Rome. The pasta—like thick spaghetti, but bored up the... More>>
Published: October 06, 2009
Fly Heads at the Island of Taiwan Restaurant Judging from the evolving mix of restaurants and food courts, the Taiwanese are losing their grip on Flushing, and are being replaced by... More>>
Published: September 29, 2009
Just in From the Coast: Coconut Grove It's something of a real estate miracle that the Indian neighborhood known as Curry Hill—which runs along Lexington Avenue from 26th to... More>>
Published: September 22, 2009
Golden Palace Debuts in South Flushing Hardly a week goes by that my mind isn't blown by one of the city's new Chinese restaurants. I'd just gotten used to the idea of excellent... More>>
Published: September 15, 2009
Joseph Leonard's Revenge French bistros have taken a bashing in New York over the last decade, nowhere more so than in Greenwich Village. Nearly every storefront that... More>>
Published: September 08, 2009
East Harbor Seafood Palace Excels at Dim Sum Dim sum–wise, the last decade was a disaster. The few places doing serious spreads were uneven at best; at worst, their uniformed... More>>
Published: September 01, 2009
The White-Trash Manhattan of Cowgirl Sea-Horse When Cowgirl Hall of Fame opened in the early '80s, it was part of a flock of popular downtown restaurants that playfully flaunted their ethnic... More>>
Published: August 25, 2009
Please Welcome Saraghina My cell phone vibrated like a small rodent chewing on my leg, and by the time I'd extracted it from my pants pocket, all I could hear was labored... More>>
Published: August 18, 2009
A New Crop of Thais Pops Up in Woodside and Astoria Thai restaurants in Queens are legendary for food far more pungent, regional, and genuine than their tired, sugary, vegetable-carving... More>>
Published: August 11, 2009
The Black Sea Comes to Brooklyn at Liman The ramshackle restaurant—part screen porch, part tinderwood dining room—teeters on the lip of the bay. Decorated with cheesy... More>>
Published: August 04, 2009
The Smith: Dull Name, Sharp Food When the Spotted Pig grunted into town four years ago, it was hailed as our first gastropub. It wasn't, really, though. Piggy was indeed superb,... More>>
Published: July 28, 2009
Wild Inconsistencies Plague Greenpoint Brasserie Anella Sometimes it seems as if all the juice has run out of the restaurant industry. Take Anella. It recently sailed into northwestern Greenpoint on a... More>>
Published: July 22, 2009
Baghdad in Your Belly at La Kabbr in Hell's Kitchen When friend and fellow Organ Meat Society member Bobby Ghosh returned to New York after a stint as Baghdad Bureau Chief for Time magazine, he... More>>
Published: July 15, 2009
Celebrate Yoga With a Hanger Steak at Watty & Meg Good restaurant names are apparently getting harder to come by. When I told my dining companion we were hitting Watty & Meg, a new bistro in... More>>
Published: July 08, 2009
Croatian Kicks at the Rudar Soccer Club The 12th monthly meeting of the Wet Towel Club was about to commence. The dining group had been named spontaneously at the first gathering, when... More>>
Published: July 01, 2009
An Choi: Vietnamese for Beginners As I stood in An Choi's entranceway waiting for my sandwich, I couldn't help but admire the décor: warm wall treatments quizzically... More>>
Published: June 24, 2009
Flushing's Hunan House Welcomes You to Mt. Fish Head Somewhat stealthily, Chinese restaurants are becoming some of the city's best. Counter Culture recently identified Bamboo Pavilion in Bensonhurst... More>>
Published: June 17, 2009
Can the Eco-Friendly Restaurant Harbour Sustain Itself? "This place is doomed," I said to my date at we entered for the first time. "I'm not even sure the concept is sound." We were discussing Harbour,... More>>
Published: June 10, 2009
Shark Mash-ups and Happy Exploding Heads at Southern Spice Sometimes a restaurant makes such an impression that it changes your way of thinking about an entire cuisine. Southern Spice is just such a... More>>
Published: June 03, 2009
Getting Your Phreak On at Gazala Place If you're accustomed to thinking of Middle Eastern food as a bland
collection of bread dips and kebabs, you haven't been to Gazala Place.
The... More>>
Published: May 27, 2009
Killing Hunger at El Almacén I've never really wondered what an Argentinean taco would taste like, but El Almacén ("The General Store") gave me a chance to find out... More>>
Published: May 20, 2009
Servants of Fish: A Taste of Seafood Fried fish has long been a big deal in Harlem. As African-Americans from Georgia and the Carolinas migrated northward to New York in the first... More>>
Published: May 13, 2009
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