cheap eats
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Speedy 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 to the @dvnny1 gallery opening and needed something for second dinner. We started with the mozzarella appetizer with wood-fired butternut squash, raisins, brown butter, and toast. Then we had the St. Louie pie with pepperoni, sausage, and pickled chilis, and the Kind Brother with bechamel sauce, wild mushroom, smoked mozzarella, egg, and sage. We still weren't full, so we had the Dangerfield with bechamel sauce, pork-veal meatballs, ricotta, basil, and garlic chips.…
- american (southern), cheap eats, downtown brooklyn, good for groups, jeans-appropriate, restaurant reviews, vegetarian-friendly
Hill 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 the new food stall concept. I can get all of my favorite sausages and brisket at the Hill Country stall, then grab a grilled cheese and tomato soup from Bluebonnets, have a spicy slice with Kreuz sausage, onions, and roasted red pepper from Austino's, and finish up the night with a scoop of my favorite NYC ice cream from Van Leeuwen. The space is huge and airy and open with plenty of seating, and it's…
- cafe, cheap eats, jeans-appropriate, pure carbs, restaurant reviews, sweets, times square, vegetarian-friendly
Kellogg’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 something with “fiber” in the name so I could feel like an adult. But I secretly love cereal and was delighted to learn that Kellogg’s NYC opened in Times Square and that I’d need to eat a huge bowl of the stuff in the interest of reviewing it. The sacrifices I make, you know.
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Duran Sandwiches Brings Europe to NYC
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Duran 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 taste of his creations, but I never expected that the President himself would walk over from their first U.S. location in NoMad to deliver them. But after talking to him for ten minutes, it made perfect sense. The guy just oozes passion for what he’s doing. He explained to me that he worked on the Budapest version of the reality TV show “Big Brother” for years and used to leave the dark studio (and…
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Kellogg’s NYC in Times Square
- bushwick, cheap eats, good for groups, great for dates, jeans-appropriate, latin, restaurant reviews
Industry 1332 is All About That Avocado
I get restaurants offering me free meals every now and then, and having no soul like I do, I’m usually wont to take them up on that offer. But Industry 1332 tried a different approach: they just asked me to come in. I was talking about empanadas on Twitter, as usual, and their social media person started up a conversation with me. There was absolutely no reason for me to visit a random Latin restaurant in the middle of Bushwick, but it did have great reviews, and their tweets to me were cute and personal, just pushy enough to interest me without turning me off. So I made a reservation…
- cheap eats, jeans-appropriate, pizza, restaurant reviews, Uncategorized, vegetarian-friendly, williamsburg
Emmy Squared, Detroit-Style Pizza in Williamsburg
To me, the Clinton Hill pizzeria Emily is famous because my neighbor and her husband own it. My boyfriend and I started going there because they offered everyone in our building a free dessert, and there aren’t many places I wouldn’t go for a free s’mores calzone. We kept going to Emily because it turned out the pizza was really the epitome of what great NY wood-fired pizza can be, with an airy, crisp crust that wasn’t hard and overly chewy. And then all of NYC went there, too, not only for the funky pizza concoctions (like the Colony with pickled chilis and honey) but for the award-winning burger that…
- american (southern), cheap eats, fast food, food events, good for groups, meat sweats, sandwiches, west village
Chef Dave Santos’s Nashville Hot Chicken Pop-Up
Chef Dave Santos may be a free agent since closing his West Village restaurant, Louro, this summer, but he’s not taking any time off. I was lucky enough to get a reservation at his Nashville hot chicken pop-up in the Manhattan location of Bark Hot Dogs last week, where he was serving whole fried chickens using his special recipe that even the Tennesseeans in the room said was better than what they’ve had back home. My friends and I got two whole chickens with pickles, cole slaw, baked beans, and potato salad, but we also couldn’t resist Dave’s fried chicken sandwiches and Bark’s super cheap pitchers of beer. The people…
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Hill Country Food Park Review
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The New Red Hook Lobster Pound
If you live outside of NYC and know about the neighborhood of Red Hook, it’s for one of two reasons: the IKEA or “The Real World: Brooklyn”. It became one of my favorite parts of the borough to visit after my I convinced my roommate to drive us down there one summer night at sunset when I was trying to make him my boyfriend and thought cramming key lime pie on a stick in our faces would be very romantic. I figured out in the process that Red Hook is really only a 45-minute walk or a 15-minute bus ride from Downtown Brooklyn, enjoys beautiful views of Manhattan, and also…
- cheap eats, houston, jeans-appropriate, mexican, restaurant reviews, travel eats, vegetarian-friendly
Chavez Mexican Cafe – Houston, TX
I’m in Houston, Texas, with my boyfriend at the moment and am astounded by how much Mexican food these people have access to. I know we’re lucky in NYC to have a little bit of everything, but I’m suddenly feeling very deprived with only one taco joint on my block back in Brooklyn. Here, there are family-owned Mexican places next to huge Mexican chain restaurants next to slightly different versions of the huge Mexican chain restaurants. Driving across the Katy Freeway, my mouth waters right and left at all of the neon signs. So I was here for less than 24 hours when I started searching Yelp for the best…
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Momofuku Ma Peche Chicken/Lamb and Rice Large-Format Dinner
I’m often made fun of for being a Momofuku fangirl, but up until a few weeks ago, I’d blasphemously never been to the most recent addition to David Chang’s assemblage of NYC restaurants, Ma Peche. But my friend The Pretender set up one of the large-format feasts for a group of 12 of us, the Ma Peche Chicken/Lamb and Rice dinner ($450), and now I can say that I’ve been to all of the Momofukus and that each one is just as amazing as the last. My friends who’d rather spend their money on shoes than food were initially skeptical about the idea of a dinner involving chicken that wasn’t…
