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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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