Food and Drink

  • Three Day Weekend

      Just got back into town from a long weekend at the beach.  Today was not the best beach day, but I took advantage of the relative coolness to go on a long run.  In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the longest I've ever run — over 6 miles.  Now I've just got to do

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  • On the Red Carpet

    Ah, the life of a food journalist.  The full rundown is on Gothamist.

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  • Bacon!

    For anyone out there who thinks chocolate covered bacon sounds disgusting, you should really taste it.  I had been fortunate enough to have the chocolate/bacon combo before, but there were definitely some converts out at the beach this weekend.  The dinner menu:  crostini with grilled peaches, peppered ricotta with mint, chives, and bacon; grilled shrimp

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  • Long Weekend

    Man, am I looking forward to a long weekend!  You can tell I've had a busy week, since I haven't managed to post at all.  Lame.  There were some highlights along the way — a meet-up for the beach house, an opening party for Hundred Acres, some gym time, some couch time, and my second

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  • Sigh

    I know, I know.  I still haven’t managed to post about Minneapolis.  You’ll have to settle for a list of the places I ate and a link to the pictures: Hell’s Kitchen for huevos rancheros Nick & Eddie’s (my favorite dinner out that week) Solera for the monster group dinner Al’s Breakfast, which absolutely rocked

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  • Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger

    Take the money you’d normally spend on lunch today and donate it to City Harvest’s Skip Lunch, Fight Hunger campaign.  You can read more about it on my 700th Gothamist Food post.  That’s right — my seven HUNDREDTH post. 

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  • Just Ducky

    the Mother Duckers Had another fantastic time competing in the annual D’Artagnan Duckathlon. No jambon this year, but we managed to win the olive-oil tasting event, which landed us some olive oil from Fig & Olive, black truffle oil, white truffle oil, and the jackpot — a log of black truffle butter. Woo hoo! Thanks

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  • Weekend Wrapup

    Let’s see, where to start.  Friday night I went to a concert put on by middle school students from a set of city charter schools.  We provide pro bono legal services to the parents of one of the schools, and I’ve got to say, it was so wonderful to see these kids play in the

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  • Good News/Bad News

    The good news: I got a much-coveted reservation at Ko for next week. The bad news: My apartment is going to be a half-painted, tarp filled, barely inhabitable disaster over the weekend (but not really that bad — I’ve got offers for places to stay — will be taking you all up on them!  And

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  • For the Record

    I was in Barnes & Noble this morning and, in fact, the cafe is co-branded with Starbucks — something like "serving Starbucks beverages," and the Starbucks logo.  So perhaps I’m not losing it after all.  At least not in this particular instance.

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