- 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…
- 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?
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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.
- 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
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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- american (new), bar-centric, great for dates, greenpoint, jeans-appropriate, michelin-starred, restaurant reviews, scandinavian, tasting menu, wine-paired menu
Luksus 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 for her fine dining. I was scheduled to go see my family in Ohio over the July 4th weekend, but when my flight got canceled despite clear blue skies, I consoled myself by booking a table for two there in the hope of getting to sit at the bar and watch the chefs work. The OpenTable reviewers had given Luksus a 4.5, and Eleven Madison Park, which I would call one of the standard-bearers in…
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Rocco 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 put together a staff of big names from old school NYC steakhouses, including the man who served as the general manager at Wolfgang’s for a decade. (And Wolfgang, of course, started his steakhouse after working at Peter Luger, so you just have to love all of the entanglement within the NYC steakhouse strata.) With another well-known steakhouse on the same block, I asked GM Pete Pjetrovic why he partnered with Rocco and beverage director Jeff…
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