Tonight we will gather for our annual Halloween feast with friends at Otto. In the past, the holiday has taken us on a tour of the city’s hotspots: Spice Market, Barbuto, Pastis, SoHo House, private loft parties with Manhattan views…who knows where the spooks and goblins will take us tonight?!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Sometimes you invite 12 guests, expecting 10 to end up dining around your table. And sometimes, you invite 600 fancy-pants-ers, expecting 300 to actually show up at the gorgeous, but intimate, National Arts Club on Grammercy Park, and you get all 600!
I fed 600 mouths Tuesday night at The Supper Club New York Launch Party, and it was [...]
With Kate Moss continuing her reign as international style icon, it seems inevitable that her brand of “I just threw on these clothes that, if they weren’t slung so nonchalantly over my hipster frame would look like a pile of crap but on me make me look exactly like who you want to be when you look [...]
Mario is my Italian Food God, despite his personal short-comings (I know some storieeeees…), and he said last week on his new Serious Eats webcast video short “Unclogged” (can’t decide if it’s a hip move for him, or if it smacks of “desperate to get back in front of a camera since I’ve been banished from [...]
I am not always enamored of French cuisine or even the beloved brasserie aesthetic because they too easily lend themselves to a kind of snobbery that does not a good side dish with moules frites make. And mediocrity on either the French food or décor front is usually worse than mediocrity in any other gastronomic milieu. But, you can’t argue [...]
Zucchini is a favorite vegetable of mine and pasta my favorite starch. Combining the two is a classic pairing, but shaving the zucchini into long ribbons rather than slicing them into the more common round discs, puts a new spin on this old fave. I first encountered this recipe in Bon Appetit years ago, and have since put my [...]
There’s no doubt we are experiencing an Indian Summer here in New York. We are faced with two choices: embrace the warm (80 degrees!) October weather as a reprieve from the inevitable cold of the coming months and “play summer” for a little while longer (think Coronas at Dos Caminos) or kid ourselves and sweat [...]
I swear I do not have a spy at the New York Times. But we have been thinking alike, a lot, lately. Last Tuesday I posted a recipe for Scallops over Creamed Corn and the Timesfollowed with their own version of the dish on Wednesday: Scallops with Cream and Basil. Over the weekend I posted a recipe for Grilled Pepperjack [...]
I’ve been looking for a good falafel joint to call my own for years, but it wasn’t until someone served me some sweet talk with my shawarma that I found one I could call my own. In my NYU days, I went to Mamoon’s on occasion, but in truth, it’s fast food rather than fresh [...]
It’s a mantra. A no-brainer. When it comes to restaurants: get what the place is known for. I’ll never understand people who think it’s boring, or cliché, or I don’t know what, to order Love Letters at Babbo, soup dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai, or a hot dog at a Yankee’s game.
Sadly, I did not take [...]
