Lunchn.com helps make “let’s do lunch” happen stress-free

 
If you enjoy going out to lunch as often as possible, and with as many friends as you can pull together, and can’t stand eating alone, then lunchn.com is exactly what you may need.
lunchn.com helps provide an answer to the question that you and your friends ask each other almost every single day. “Where are [...]

Barcibo Enoteca

2020 Broadway @ W. 69th St. (Upper West Side)
(212) 595-2805 barciboenoteca.com
Delicious, satisfying, high quality, yet reasonably-priced Italian wines and small bites served in a romantic, low-key atmosphere. Barcibo distinguishes itself in a neighborhood that is becoming increasingly populated by restaurants with marquee-type stature (think: Daniel Boulod, Bill Telepan and Tom Valenti), with the accompanying marquee-tabs. [...]

Pannacotta with Strawberries and Balsamic Vinegar

With spring finally  (finally!!!)  heating up in New York City, berries are in their full glory.
It’s a great time to try Mario Batali’s recipe for pannacotta with strawberries and balsamic vinegar.
Click on the picture of  Mario for his wonderful recipe.
 

Food and Wine at 92St. Y

MAY 2009 FOOD LISTINGS
FOOD AND WINE TASTINGS ● LECTURES ● TOURS ● DEMOS
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LECTURES AND TASTINGS
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Wed, May 13, 7-8:30 pm, $40
Francine Segan’s World of Tasting: APHRODISIACS TASTING: HISTORY, MYTH AND FACT
Learn the secret seductive history of a variety of foods, and taste several aphrodisiac recipes. Delve into the libidinous legends surrounding Spanish fly, ginseng, rhinoceros horns, [...]

Beer’s gone haute

First there was coffee, then there was wine, the current beverage du jour to get all snobby about is beer. The signs have been there for some time now…the onslaught of gastropubs with beer menus with encyclopedic descriptions of the world’s third most popular beverage after water and tea, a more widespread connoisseurship of beer, [...]

Arriba Rioja Week in NYC!

NYC Celebrates Rioja – April 26 – May 2nd.
Rioja week is a great time to try new food and wine parings from Rioja (Spain). Visit any one of 50 NYC restaurants during Rioja Restaurant Week and choose from a $25 prix fixe or $50 prix fixe menu that includes a glass of Rioja wine.
 
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Noodle Pudding

38 Henry St., Brooklyn Heights/Dumbo
718-625-3737
To anyone with a modicum of pasta-cooking knowhow, the thought of eating pasta at a restaurant by this name will no doubt seem repellent, that is until they get to know the place. I was hoping to find some clues to explain its baffling name amongst Noodle Pudding’s menu items or [...]

Join the fight against hunger now and let the Food Bank double your donations

FJC, a donor-advised fund, is generously matching, dollar for dollar, any new or increased donation up to $50,000.
That means your $25 dollars, combined with FJC’s matching funds, will help the Food Bank provide 250 meals to New Yorkers in need!
In response to the economic crisis and increased demand for food assistance, the Food Bank [...]

Via Emilia

47 E. 21 St., Flatiron/Gramercy Park
212-505-3072, www.viaemilianyc.net
Since it opened in 2002, Via Emilia was a restaurant that I used to frequent with frequent regularity. A fan of hearty, sophisticated cuisine of the region of Emilia Romagna–I spent a couple of semesters studying Modern Languages at the University of Bologna right  after graduating high school–I  became an [...]

Il Buco Honoring Earth Day – from Apr. 21-25

47 Bond Street ( Noho)
(212)-533-1932
www.ilbuco.com
The Gotham Palate salutes Il Buco for supporting the Amazon Rainforest with its second annual Earth Day Fund-Raiser. 
 

To honor Earth Day (April 22), il Buco will reduce its customers total LUNCH bill by 15% for one week. In turn, il Buco will donate, out of its pocket, the 15% saved by its guests.
All proceeds [...]