- bar-centric, boerum hill, cobble hill, good for groups, great for dates, jeans-appropriate, mediterranean, restaurant reviews, vegetarian-friendly
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 Thistle and Smoke cocktail with mezcal, Cynar, lemon, and honey. Then we had the house bread with za'atar herbs. All of the small plates on the menu looked so good to us that we shared a bunch instead of ordering an entree: roasted beet hummus, labneh crudité with vegetables and za’atar, burrata with figs and hazelnut/vinegar spread, fried rice with beef sausage, Brussels sprouts, egg, and enoki mushrooms, and grilled octopus with potato…
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- 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…
- american (new), flatiron, good for groups, great for dates, michelin-starred, nomad, restaurant reviews, tasting menu, vegetarian-friendly, wine-paired menu
Eleven 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 dining room, which is made of all of the old kitchen’s steel appliances, melted down into an inch-high plank. They paid an artist to make that for them. And you have to read Chef Daniel Humm’s Instagram post about it. Like, come on! You’ve never seen anything more earnest. And earnest really is the best way to describe it. I honestly just don’t think these Eleven Madison Park guys are doing anything more than trying to…
- flatiron, good for groups, great for dates, italian, jeans-appropriate, restaurant reviews, tasting menu
Mamma 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 Daniel Humm’s take on classic red sauce dishes, named in loving honor of his co-owner, Will Guidara’s, mom. On Sunday nights, the NoMad Bar transforms into one of those red-checkered-tablecloth joints from the 80s, and although the decor is a little chintzy (in the best way), the food is just what you’d expect from a three-Michelin-star chef. And it’s only $74 for four courses that seem more like eight or ten by the…
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- american (new), food events, good for groups, jeans-appropriate, tasting menu, underground eats, west village
Chef 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 were his secret home supper clubs, which he called Um Segredo (“a secret” in Portuguese). Well, they’re back, and they’re not so secret anymore! In that they take place right out in the open at the Good Stock on Carmine Street. But the same secret feel is still there: just you and five others in the tiny store front, gathered around a table while Chef Santos cooks directly in front of you, offering insight about each of the…
- good for groups, great for dates, jeans-appropriate, michelin-starred, midtown east, restaurant reviews, scandinavian, tasting menu, vegetarian-friendly, wine-paired menu
The 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 tacos. But if you’d prefaced that question by mentioning that the chef at Agern, the restaurant inside of Grand Central Terminal, has a restaurant in Iceland called Dill, I might have thought differently. I LOVE dill. And it doesn’t hurt that the owner of Agern is the same guy who helped found Noma in Denmark, which has been named the best restaurant in the world, oh, I don’t know, four times?
- good for groups, great for dates, michelin-starred, poland, polish, restaurant reviews, tasting menu, warsaw, wine-paired menu
The 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 his family are from the area originally, so he took me there last month to see where he grew up, and naturally, I checked the Michelin guide. There are only two Michelin-starred restaurants in the whole country, and one just received its star this year, so we decided to give the new kid a try. I emailed the restaurant for a reservation two weeks before our trip and was able to get us in at…
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Bowery 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 her someplace new and well-rated. A co-worker happened to mention Bowery Meat Company to me that very week, and not only had the New York Times given it two stars, but it had meat right in the name.
- 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…
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Howl at the Moon in NYC
Howl at the Moon invited me to bring a few friends to the grand opening of their new Times Square location, and as a person who loves singing her face off unabashedly in public, I gratefully obliged. It’s a massive (for NYC) open space with a bar at the center, pianos up front, and a wraparound balcony full of leather couches on the second level where you’ll get the best view and the most room to dance. The free drinks were flowing fast and strong that night, and the mini burgers and fried cheese cubes were hot and plentiful. But what really stood out is how crazy friendly the service…
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