Mecca of virtuous repasts and the best Restaurant Week Lunch Deal – Review of Rouge Tomate
BY ELENA MANCINI
Rouge Tomate
10 East 60th. St.
Midtown East
646-237-8977 / rougetomatenyc.com
Set foot into the bright, airy foyer of Rouge Tomate and it’s a few short steps until you realize that you’re in for an experience that’s a world apart from [...]
The Chanel of Comfort Food – Ritz Carlton’s Classic Desserts Redefined
BY ELENA MANCINI
Forget the orchid petal garnished lavender-chamomile sorbet, the Ritz has introduced a new dessert menu that will make you want to forsake your New Year’s Resolution. Break out your “only this once” excuse and transgress! The taste rewards are worth it.
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A Taste of Bergamo in New York – Italy’s Da Vittorio makes a splash in Manhattan
BY ELENA MANCINI
Solid, riveting haute Italian cuisine was the toast of Soho last week via Chefs Enrico (Chicco) and Roberto (Bobbo) Cerea and their cooking workshop at the International Day of Italian Cuisines hosted at the Italian Culinary Academy [...]
The food wires have been buzzing non-stop since yesterday, when The New York Times’s Executive Editor, Bill Keller officially named Sam Sifton to replace Frank Bruni as the Times’s new restaurant critic. Sifton has been serving the dual role of Culture Editor and Dining Editor at the Times. His previous stints include New York Press [...]
A Review of Jiannetto’s Pizza Truck
BY SETH S.
Jiannetto’s Pizza Truck
Front Street and Wall Street
Financial District, NYC
As I walk the streets of the City, I often will stop to pick up a slice from a neighborhood pizza place. The problem is I rarely ever find these neighborhood pizzerias in Manhattan. The borough has [...]
JoeDoe’s Joe Dobias is among the spate of chef-restauranteurs in the New York City restaurant world that are lashing out at restaurant critics. According to Eater, a Dobias is said to have railed against New York Journal blogger for critical remarks expressed in a review. Here’s a taste of Dobias’ gratuitous, below the belt response, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
While enjoying an unseasonably cold early spring stroll to assess the changing restaurant-scape in Greenwich Village, I discovered some pretty significant restaurant turnovers.
A.O.C. Bedford, a beloved, though short-lived neighborhood Spaniard mysteriously shuttered in late 2007 now has Quinto Quarto Osteria Romana, a chain from Italy, specializing in offal, occupying the space. It would appear that [...]
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