East Village Eats

Food & Drink recommendations straight from the East Village, New York City

Brunch at The Cardinal

I’ve been eating a lot of Southern & Soul food lately, helped in part by a bunch of new restaurants springing up in the East Village.  The Cardinal opened in late August 2011, but I never got the chance to eat there till now.  Located in the space formerly held by Thai restaurant Amaya, they’ve […]

5th Annual Crawfish Boil at The Redhead

Starting this Sunday & for 3 Sundays after, The Redhead will be hosting crawfish boils.  From1PM-10PM (or until they sell out), $30 will get you 2 Pounds of crawfish, sausage, corn, potato & artichoke.  There will also be New Orleans’ Abita Beers on offer.  Note that the regular menu will not be served. Click on the […]

Back Forty Offering Chicken Dinners

Back Forty (reviews here) will be offering a 2 course dinner featuring a soup, buttermilk fried chicken (with sides) & a beer for $25.  via Tasting Table: Comfort food reigns supreme on Sunday and Monday nights at Back Forty. In addition to the regular menu, the restaurant offers a special dinner of seasonal soup followed […]

Bobwhite Counter

I tend to keep my ears open about new restaurants whenever possible, so after the closure of Singa’s Famous Pizza a few months ago, I was hoping that something would quickly take it’s place.  It took 10 months, but now we have a new lunch & supper spot (brunch in the works) on Avenue C.  […]

The Brooklyn Star

I don’t travel to Brooklyn that much, but dinner at The Brooklyn Star with friends seemed too good to pass up. I was busy eating junk food at home when I got a text inviting me to dinner. Obviously, I had to look at the menu online first, but once I saw Fried Pig Tail, […]

Live Bait

Southern & Cajun cuisine ranks pretty high on my favorite food to eat, so I’ve been slowly trying to cross of as many restaurants in the city as I can.  This week it was Live Bait’s turn.  I’ve passed by the place a bunch of times, but never eaten there.  While researching places for lunch, […]

RUB BBQ

There’s nothing more satisfying than good BBQ. That feeling of happiness with a stomach full of smoked meat & sticky hands. I don’t eat as much BBQ as I’d like (I reviewed Hill Country recently), but I will admit that this is one of my favorite places.

Food News

Upstate opens in the East Village, via Grub Street. Dov Charney gets into the restaurant biz. Via Village Voice. The secret to The Brindle Room‘s amazing burgers; Deckle Fat. Via Food Curated. Dwindling vegetable viarieties via National Geographic. Roberta’s is coming to the East Village. Via Village Voice. Got any news? email me (see ‘About […]

Hill Country

After the restaurant my sister selected for a lunch date turned out to be a complete disaster, I decided to take the reins & choose where we’d eat.  After a few suggestions via Twitter, Hill Country in Chelsea got the nod.  Once you enter the place, it’s almost as if you’ve been transported to Texas. […]

East Village loses 2 Southern Food mainstays

Hot on the heels of Eater.com reporting that Acme Bar & Grill (9 Great Jones Street) will be closing for much needed renovations, East Village blog EVGrieve reports that Mara’s Homemade (342 East 6th Street) will be closing for good at the end of April.  The owners of Mara’s (who have been at the current […]

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