Best wishes for happy, healthy and prosperous 2010, from Elena and The Gotham Palate Team!
We are looking forward to helping you make it another great year of delicious NYC dining!
In the meantime, we thank you for your continued readership and offer you some of the highlights from 2009 at The Gotham Palate:
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“Right wine, wrong stemware…grimace. What’s your restaurant hang up?”
By ELENA MANCINI
Spending some time in Queens this week dog-sitting an adorable Lhasa Apso who’s short on legs and long on attitude, inspired me to take the intiative to get together with a dear friend from the borough with whom a catch-up session was long overdue.
She recommended we [...]
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 [...]
“What baffles me about Luzzo’s Pizza”
BY: ELENA MANCINI
Luzzo’s
211 First Ave.
East Village
212-473-4774 / luzzomania.com/
One of the things that I took away from eating at Luzzo’s, besides a headache and a full stomach, is unresolved bafflement at why this place has armies of devotees.
For months, I had been hearing acquaintances rave about this place and observing [...]
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, [...]
453 Sixth Ave. at 11th St., Greenwich Village
(212) 924-6688
By now, most New Yorkers have had it with the cold, wind and rain. We are all ready to get some spring on, but April has been especially slow in delivering this year with it’s mere four dry days to date, only two of which included [...]
230 9th Ave., Chelsea
212-243-1105
Jim Lahey is so preoccupied with dough that he can’t even bring himself to serve his patrons some bread. Although that would seem like a paradoxical statement given that Lahey is the celebrated baker of the renowned Sullivan Bakery, a visit to Co. would prove that his primary obsession with dough is [...]
Walking home from Second Avenue in the East Village one night
late last week, bargain meal offers kept popping onto my path from all sides.
Spice, a food and popular Thai Restaurant chain on 104 2nd Ave. and corner of E. 6th St. is offering a $6 dinner special between the hours of 4 and 6 PM. [...]
Click on the pizza below to read why I think La Lanterna di Vittorio makes a great Valentine’s Day destination.
The slumped economy has given us one for the team. The rent increases that were slated for The Emerald Inn, a beloved West Side watering hole, located on 205 Columbus Ave at 69th St., have been deferred.
Today’s NY Times reported that the Emerald Inn, an institution on Manhattan’s Upper West side since the forties, [...]
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