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 [...]
October 3rd, 2007
Tall, Dark, and Yummy (Shawarmy)
October 1st, 2007
Grey Dog Bites
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 [...]
September 30th, 2007
Greenmarket Blues
That’s it; I’ve had it. There will be no more Greenmarket for me on an Autumn weekend afternoon! I always look forward to Saturdays in the Square, but today was just unmanageable. Too many people, too hot, all the best produce gone. I could barely get close enough to talk to the vendors about their [...]
September 26th, 2007
A Cold Shoulder to that Iced Café
I’m a New Yorker; I know what it means to pay for quality. It’s not that the iced cappuccino was $4.25 a pop, it’s that it wasn’t good enough to be $4.25 a pop. Though the leaves have begun to turn shades of sunset, it still felt like summer in the city on Monday as [...]
September 24th, 2007
Tending the Urban Soil
It’s just about time to bring my herb garden inside. I hope the plants don’t mind the move because I’ve been loving the touch that homegrown herbs add to my dishes. It goes even beyond the taste, although there’s nothing better than freshly picked mint to garnish just-brewed iced tea, or my own basil, straight [...]
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