healthy

  • 4,  cheap eats,  healthy,  midtown east,  restaurant reviews,  vegetarian-friendly

    7 Green and Grain

    When we’re not enjoying gut-busting tasting menus, I keep my figure girlish with a low-carb diet, while my boyfriend eats low-calorie to remain a bronzed glamorboy. And since we don’t cook, much of our evenings together are spent laboring over what to order for dinner. I want burgers on English muffins; he wants sushi. I want steak; he wants salad. I want comfort food; he wants adventure. It’s not fun. But luckily, his adventure-seeking led him one evening to find on our favourite delivery app, Seamless, a brand new restaurant called 7 Green and Grain. I’ll admit that I basically had to be forced to order from the place. It…

  • 4,  chain restaurant,  cheap eats,  chelsea,  healthy,  meat sweats,  restaurant reviews,  sandwiches,  tribeca,  vegetarian-friendly

    Muscle Maker Grill – Healthy/Sandwiches – Tribeca

    I know it’s awful to talk about dieting on a gluttonous food blog, but the truth is that when I’m not shoveling sweets into my piehole at fancy restaurants, I’m trying to avoid carbs at home. Not being much of a cook, it can be rough trying to find anything for lunch, so I was pumped to randomly type “low-carb” into Seamless.com‘s search function and find Muscle Maker Grill. With a menu full of items made from lean meats and low-fat cheeses and served on low-carb and whole wheat wraps, this is the kind of place that makes me feel guilty about the food I’m eating until I remember that…