In case you haven’t noticed, I’m not really a huge fan of fancy restaurants with fancy table settings. Once, I happily ate tasty Honduran beef out of a large, black trash bag in a park in the Bronx. One of my all-time favorite New York meals is served in a parking lot in Astoria. […]
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I went to Sheepshead Bay, looking for Armenian food. Instead, I found tasty dried horse meat. And fake pet birds. Life is good. Aladdin, a six-week-old Uzbek restaurant in the spot formerly occupied by Armenian-owned Garden Bay Café, serves all sorts of classic Uzbek awesomeness: a colorful version of lagman (noodle) soup, solid renditions […] Read More >> |
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I’ve probably googled some variation on the phrase “Lao food NYC” at least 20 times since moving to New York… and yes, I might be crazy and obsessive. But more importantly, I came up empty every time. This upsets me. It also upsets the amazing Robert Sietsema. It upsets me even more when I […] Read More >> |
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Vodka doesn’t appear anywhere on the menu at Tbilisi, a cozy Georgian restaurant in the Gravesend neighborhood of Brooklyn. There’s no beer on the menu, either. But we got slaughtered, anyway. Surrendering to our lamentable stereotype of former Soviet states, our group of nine—all of whom were of purely Asian or Western European descent, […] Read More >> |
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I was very excited when my pal Eric—who knows pretty much everything a white dude could possibly know about the culinary wonders of Flushing’s Chinatown—sent me a text confirming that he’d be joining me for Taiwanese food. It got better when he promised that a pair of his Taiwanese friends would be coming with us. […] Read More >> |
