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Tue. 05 May '09

Dining

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a monster sandwich. Mexican cooks are lauded for their love of the tortilla, but they also know their way around the roll. There's the... more
Wed. 10 Dec '08

Cooking

Visit Bonnie Slotnick for rare and vintage cookbooks. With Black Friday past and only a couple of weeks left to shop, it's a challenge to find unique, inexpensive gifts... more
Fri. 05 Dec '08

Drinks

At Braeburn, apple cider earns its place next to wine. Although a mug of warm apple cider is the perfect late-autumn warm-me-up, it's not the best pairing for dinner.... more
Wed. 11 Feb '09

Dining

Royale Cafe + Pastry brings Brooklyn's best to the West Village. When it comes to coffee and sweets, Brooklyn residents have been able to lord it over Manhattanites: Keep... more
Tue. 29 Jun '10

Dining

Complimentary growlers of craft beer at Choptank. Grab a mallet. Sitting down to a blue-crab feast at Choptank, the Maryland-meets-West Village fish shack, requires a... more
Thu. 21 May '09

Dining

Chef-Owner Marc Murphy . Marc Murphy's stylish West Village fish shack channels the beachy spirit of Montauk all year-round. The kitchen serves summer classics like... more
Tue. 09 Jun '09

Dining

New York's top tables for celebrating another candle on the cake. The best tonic for becoming another year older is celebrating with your group at the perfect party spot.... more
Tue. 10 Nov '09

Dining

The neglected rooster gets special treatment at Mas . We may be in the midst of a chicken renaissance, but you won't see much of the bird's maligned male counterpart on... more
Wed. 26 Aug '09

Dining

Joseph Leonard turns a holiday favorite into a year-round fixture. Every holiday season we look forward to one thing more than all the gingersnaps and snowballs in the... more
Tue. 18 Aug '09

People

Kesté's Roberto Caporuscio has no secrets. Pizzaiolo Roberto Caporuscio grew up near Rome and spent years as a dairy farmer before moving to Naples to work with... more
Tue. 17 Mar '09

Dining

Wilfie & Nell serves exceptional pub food--when you need it the most. One night a year, we crave corned beef and shepherd's pie. Unfortunately, it's the same night our... more
Mon. 06 Oct '08

Dining

Bobo's third chef is a charm. Since it opened last fall, Bobo's carefully eclectic décor and decidedly nonbohemian clientele have attracted more attention than its... more
Thu. 22 Apr '10

Chefs' Recipes

There's an ocean of flavor in this bowl. Until recently, if you wanted to taste chef Jesse Schenker's inventive cooking, you needed an invitation (and a couple hundred... more
Tue. 15 Dec '09

Wine

Bar Henry's half-bottle wine bargains. Put aside any misgivings you may have about neon signs and subterranean spaces, and descend the stairs into the former Zinc Bar... more
Tue. 08 Dec '09

Dining

Pancakes go Dutch . This year, New York has expressed its admiration for its Dutch roots by celebrating everything from bicycles to markets. But our favorite way to pay... more
Fri. 20 Mar '09

Drinks

Bring your growler: These bars pour takeout beer. While you can fill growlers with keg-fresh brew at countless beer shops, you run the risk of buying 64 ounces of... more
Tue. 01 Jun '10

Dining

An exclusive fishing excursion with the Rusty Knot. While you may be an expert at cooking dinner, you're probably less so at catching it. But Sue Torres, the Rusty... more
Mon. 31 Aug '09

Dining

Make a tasty transition into fall with this month's top stories. The sun finally came out (and with a vengeance) just as summer's drawing to a close. This recap of... more
Thu. 21 May '09

Dining

Chef Laurence Edelman and Owner Danny Abrams . The Mermaid Oyster Bar is the latest addition to restaurateur Danny Abrams's mini seafood empire. Not surprisingly, the... more
Tue. 09 Dec '08

Drinks

The city’s best hot chocolate comes from the freezer.. Symbiosis is a remarkable thing: Bees have flowers, Tom has Katie, and the Roasting Plant has Il Laboratorio... more
Wed. 10 Feb '10

Dining

Take advantage of the long Valentine's weekend. By now, most dinner reservations for Valentine's Day are long gone. But thanks to a fortuitous calendar arrangement, this... more
Mon. 26 Jan '09

Dining

Forget dinner: This year, book a romantic Valentine's Day brunch. Before you scramble to make Valentine's Day dinner reservations like every other doting couple, consider... more
Tue. 23 Dec '08

Cooking

Make one of L’Artusi’s best dishes at home. You'll hear a lot about L'Artusi in 2009. Only a couple of weeks old, the second restaurant from chef Gabe... more
Mon. 16 Aug '10

Dining

Timeless tapas at NYC's oldest Spanish restaurant . Homesick Spaniards have been flocking to La Nacional for camaraderie and tapas since the 1920s. Over the years, these... more
Tue. 13 Apr '10

Dining

Chewy pretzels take Manhattan. The city's meat mania has spawned a carb-based cohort: The chewy pretzel. Ingredients, accompaniments and condiments vary, but there's no... more
Mon. 08 Mar '10

Dining

Become reacquainted with Korean cuisine. A decade ago, New York Times reporter Florence Fabricant declared Korean food an "unknown" cuisine to New Yorkers, and went on to... more
Tue. 16 Feb '10

Dining

Tour the latest food-filled stretch. Until recently, Kenmare Street--only five blocks long--was nearly all hardware shops and lost tourists looking for Little Italy. But... more
Mon. 18 Jan '10

Dining

Savory pies make the perfect drinking companions. Any seasoned boozer will tell you that an empty stomach is a perilous condition. But rather than rely on the same usual... more
Mon. 12 Oct '09

Drinks

Heartland Brewery breaks out its first limited-edition beer. Until recently, if you wanted to tip back one of Heartland Brewery's beers, you had to hoof it to one of the... more
Wed. 12 Aug '09

Dining

Bed-Stuy's Saraghina serves a mighty fine pie. If the queue at Co. or the crowds at Kesté have you settling for substandard pizza elsewhere, consider making a trip... more
Wed. 20 May '09

Drinks

Got a buck? Drink like a prince at these top bars.. Though the dollar's value has plummeted worldwide, there's one location where the greenback is more valuable than... more
Tue. 21 Apr '09

Wine

The best wine deals are now found at top restaurants--if you know where to look. There's never been a better time to be a wine geek in New York. In this crummy economy,... more
Tue. 31 Mar '09

Dining

Experience the art of Japanese bar food at our favorite izakayas. Long before tapas became trendy, the Japanese had izakaya: These watering holes with extensive... more
Mon. 30 Mar '09

People

10 Downing's Christian Hammer touts Prosecco and its perfect companions. You'd expect Christian Hammer, the former wine director of Balthazar and Pastis, to be a... more
Mon. 09 Feb '09

Wine

Try Southern Italy's overlooked star . An often-heralded rule of thumb for getting the best bang for your wine buck is to check out lesser-known grapes. And now is the... more
Mon. 24 Nov '08

Dining

Where to take your fussy guests on Thanksgiving weekend. Last year's family outing to our pick-of-the-moment restaurant only further upped the usual tension: Dad winced... more
Wed. 08 Oct '08

Dining

Vai (and its drinks) are a refreshing departure for the UWS. The Upper West Side suffers from a dearth of comfortable, any-night-you-fancy restaurants, so it was... more