I’m not sure how, but I somehow heard torrid internet rumors about this thing called laverbread. It’s a Welsh “bread” made from seaweed and oatmeal, generally eaten at breakfast. Yes, Welsh seaweed bread. Um, wut? That sounded pretty awesome. As luck would have it, there’s a Welsh-themed pub in Astoria called Snowdonia that serves […]

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  My wife likes to say that United Nations of Food NYC isn’t really a food blog – it’s a cry for help. Yeah, I agree: it’s an online cry for help finding interesting international food. At least I think that’s what she meant…? Anyway, a friendly Maltese-American reader heard my cry for help last […]

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  Please allow me to indulge in a ridiculous, fattening fantasy for a moment. In my alternate-universe version of New York City, all ethnic restaurants would proudly serve their national dishes.  Nobody would hide in the international food closet.  There wouldn’t be any more Bengalis masquerading as “Indian” chefs, Senegalese restaurateurs claiming that they’re merely […]

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  You might have noticed that I really like food.  You might also have noticed that I very rarely eat home-cooked meals. For those of you who don’t live in Manhattan, here’s some exciting news:  this island is effing expensive.  So we rented a slightly flawed apartment to save money:  there’s no direct sunlight and […]

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  Urbanspoon lists 1836 Italian restaurants in NYC.  If you search for NYC Italian restaurants on yelp, you’ll find 2659 options.  And if you google the term “NYC Italian restaurants”, you’ll get 50,200,000 results. So yeah, there are somewhere between 1836  and 50,200,000 Italian restaurants in NYC.  And I passed up all of them for […]

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