Food News
Posted on | September 15, 2011 | No Comments
The Edi & the Wolf team talk Austrian Oktoberfest. Village Voice.
The Bean gets evicted to make way for Starbucks #188 via NY Times.
9th Street Block Party this Saturday via EVGrieve.
Buying Fish In Chinatown & Beyond via The Lo-Down.
Life Cafe closing for good? EVGrieve.
Kafana Revisited
Posted on | September 15, 2011 | No Comments
I reviewed Kafana for the first time about a year ago & it has become a place that I eat at regularly. I’ll admit that I didn’t know much about Serbian food back then & I feel like I’m in a better position to talk about the dishes there. The restaurant serves up a lot of heavy dishes (possibly best suited for cold winter nights), but it does have some lighter seafood & vegetarian options. Read more
Nam Son Vietnamese Restaurant
Posted on | September 13, 2011 | No Comments
I don’t eat in Chinatown very often & when I do, it’s normally at a Chinese restaurant, but I’ve passed Nam Son so many times while shopping around Grand Street that I decided to finally give it a go. I’ve been to Vietnam once & admit that I don’t know much about the cuisine. I’ve had Pho (perhaps what Vietnam is best known for) several times, so I was excited to see what else they had on offer. Read more
Kasadela
Posted on | September 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
Honestly, when I think of I traditional Japanese food in the East Village, Avenue C doesn’t immediately come to mind. I’d been a regular at the restaurant years ago & pretty much forgotten about it until last week. Luckily the food is still as good as I remember.
Nestled in an area where you’re more likely to find bars & the occasional dodgy Chinese takeout spot, Kasadela is an Izakaya; serving a wide variety of inexpensive food, the kind of after-work spot that you always see in movies. We arrived around 6:30 on a Monday to try some of the the Happy Hour specials that they offer during the week. The Miso Soup was a lot darker than I’m used to, but it was good. Read more
Eataly
Posted on | August 31, 2011 | 5 Comments
Eataly opened with much fanfare a year ago, but I decided to hold off & wait. Luckily Hurricane Irene had everyone running scared this weekend, so I decided to head there on Monday in the hope that it would be pretty empty. Even though they were celebrating their 1 year anniversary with deep discounts on 44 items in the Market & Wine Shop, the place was pretty quiet. Read more
Maharlika
Posted on | August 29, 2011 | 5 Comments
I’ve never eaten Filipino food before, so I was really pleased when I read Immaculate Infatuation’s review of Maharlika, a brand new restaurant on 7th St. Originally a pop-up brunch spot on 12th street, they’ve finally got their own space & are serving dinner 7 days a week & brunch on the weekends (lunch service coming this week).
It was early on a Friday afternoon & besides an older gentleman we were the only customers. We arrived during happy hour so beers were only $3 (there is a cocktail menu too). The menu is split into sections; small plates designed to be shared, sides, sizzling plates (pretty self-explanatory), plates with garlic rice & egg and finally main dishes with white rice. Most had names that I didn’t even attempt to pronounce, but were described well. Read more
Cooking Demo At Affaire
Posted on | August 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Last Thursday, Nearsay teamed up with French restaurant/lounge Affaire to host a mussels cooking demo & meetup for local bloggers. Located in a sprawling space that once housed #1 Chinese & China 1, Affaire still has some remnants of it’s Asian past while the menu is classic French. Read more
Here Comes Irene!
Posted on | August 27, 2011 | No Comments
I’ve been mining Twitter & local bloggers to compile a list of East Village establishments that will be closed this weekend. Pretty much every grocery store is reporting massive lines at the registers (Fine Fare on C was a mess last night) so I’m not going to bother with those.
International Bar & Coal Yard: Closed.
Peels: Closed.
Good Beer: Open till 8pm today.
Life Cafe: Closed.
Russ & Daughters: Closed.
Paradiso: Open for lunch today.
DBGB: Closed.
Momofuko: Closed.
2nd Ave. Starbucks: Closed.
Edi & The Wolf: Opens today at 5pm, Sunday unsure.
Spina Restaurant: Closed Sunday.
Zum Schneider: Closed.
Sunburnt Cow: Closed.
Esperanto: Closed.
Hearth: Closed.
Terroir: Closed.
Lure Fish Bar (Soho): Closed.
But in better news; Ray’s Candy Store & Vazacs/7B will be OPEN!
More news as it becomes available.
Wok+Wine
Posted on | August 24, 2011 | No Comments
I had the extreme pleasure of bringing my Mom to a Foodspotting and Wok+Wine event held at the offices of Luminary Labs in Tribeca. I didn’t know anything about W+W, but I’m an avid Foodspotting user, so I wasn’t going to pass this opportunity up. After doing a bit of research online, I found out that W+W is the brainchild of Peter Mandeno & is basically a way for people to get together & network. A quote from the website sums it up: ‘40 people, 40 pounds of jumbo shrimp and 40 bottles of delicious wine!‘ Read more
Yvonne’s Jamaican Food Truck
Posted on | August 20, 2011 | No Comments
Food trucks are all the rage now, but back in the day when I was growing up on the Upper East Side there was one truck that I went to several times a month. Yvonne’s Jamaican Food Truck serves up amazing Jamaican & Caribbean food around lunchtime on weekdays. The dishes are very simple, but absolutely packed with flavor. They can run a bit on the spicy side, but any Jamaican would want it just that way. Read more