A pig lover’s paradise – Review of Pig Heaven

BY CAROLYN ONOFREY

Pig Heaven
1540 2nd Avenue
Upper East Side
212-744-4887/pigheaven.biz

My boyfriend had been bugging me to go to Pig Heaven with him for about a month.  I had honestly never heard of the place, even though I am now aware of the accolades it has received from the Travel Channel and New York Magazine.
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Celebrate Earth Day all year long – fifty ways to be green

Happy Earth Day! But don’t think green today and waste tomorrow.
Access fifty easy tips on how to live green and love your planet all year long, courtesy of
Hugh Garvey in Bon Appetit Magazine
Click on the bison burger below to learn what those are.

Mecca of virtuous repasts and the best Restaurant Week Lunch Deal- Review of Rouge Tomate

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

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

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 [...]

It’s official: Frank Bruni will be passing his napkin to The NY Times’ Sam Sifton

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 [...]

Jiannetto’s Pizza Truck

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 – part of the growing cohort of touchy chef-restauranteurs that push back

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, [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]