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Original item, 7 a.m.: For the last two years, Tristan Willey has managed the bar at Booker & Dax (207 Second Avenue, 212-254-3500), where he's racked up accolades for his innovative cocktail work. But now we get wind that Willey's time there is done...
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In case you missed it, LA and its surroundings got their undies in a bunch this week after the New York Times published a Hungry City column declaring that NYC could go "mano a mano" with the City of Angels when it comes to tacos. Wrote Los Angeles m...
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A lot has happened since Betty Crocker published her Dinner for Two cookbook in 1958.
Betty Crocker never actually existed in flesh-and-blood form, but long before she started churning out boxed cake mixes and frostings, she was used for an ad ca...
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A taco, sope, or torta might be the natural order from this Bushwick taco truck, but the quesadilla is a surprise hit.We're not sure what possessed us to order a quesadilla from this venerable taco truck just beneath the tracks at the Myrtle Broadway...
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Loreley kicks off sausage week with a sausage-fest launch party complete with Oktoberfest beer this Saturday.
Pumpkin Ale. Pumpkin Spiced Latte. Pumpkin Pie. Whatever your fall vice may be, pumpkins don't have to be all of them. In fact, if you ha...
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This New England seafood combo straddles summer and fall. We're getting a bit of a warm weather revival this week, which might explain our sudden intense desire to have a lobster roll, a foodstuff we really peg to beach season. But when we popped int...
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4Food aims to rebound from tough opening reviews and unsightly scaffolding
Of all the things that can derail a successful business, one is particularly frustrating: scaffolding. And 4Food, a fast casual concept that opened three years ago in Midto...
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Pad Thai at Ngam, one of our best Thai restaurants in NYC
Earlier this week, Zachary Feldman unveiled his list of the 10 best Thai restaurants in NYC, a line-up that traipsed through three boroughs, several neighborhoods, and a variety of regional...
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Though it's a roving taco truck, Tacos El Vagabundo's (Queens Plaza at 40th-41st Street, Sunnyside, 347-276-4522) presence in Sunnyside, Queens is abiding. Every night of the week "The Vagabond" parks on Queens Plaza between 40th and 41st Streets, op...
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A first glimpse of KelSo's new cans.
Get ready for some big Brooklyn beer news: KelSo is launching a canned beer line. Known for easy-drinking and innovative brews, the small husband-and-wife operation is taking new form as beers goes beyond the ...
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What you won't see, however, is a lot of savory yogurt, since the dairy product is still most commonly matched with sweets and fruit. And that makes the new offering from locavore high priest Dan Barber and his crew at Blue Hill particularly compelli...
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Last year's Brooklyn Pour
We're less than two weeks out from the Brooklyn Pour craft beer festival, which descends on Skylight One Hanson (1 Hanson Place, 718-783-5437) in Fort Greene October 12. Our VIP tickets are sold out--but there are a few m...
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Cheap drinks from 4 to 8 p.m. and live music make The Way Station a popular hangout any night of the week
The only thing scarier than going to a haunted house this October is watching the price of pints rise. Fortunately, we've found a few place...
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For this week's review, Zachary Feldman hits Estela (47 East Houston Street, 212-219-7693), where he finds chef Ignacio Mattos is flexing his creative muscles. "Now in a narrow, elevated space on Houston Street, Mattos is unencumbered; you can taste ...
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A sparse shop on the LES-Chinatown border turns out soul-fortifying beef noodle soup.At the back of a glorified hallway on the Chinatown-LES border, a man or woman thwaps long strands of dough into submission, eventually separating the lengthening pu...
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Part one of my interview with Soulayphet "Phet" Schwader ran yesterday, and the Khe-Yo chef talked about his philosophy in the kitchen, his background, and his thoughts on the New York restaurant industry at large. Here in part two, Schwader gets spe...
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And thanks to technology brands gone before it, fixing the problem was fairly simple: "What made it possible was that Uber had come up with this great thing" that allows people to call and take cars without physically exchanging money, says Egerman's...
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Soulayphet "Phet" Schwader may have grown up in the midwest--Wichita, Kansas, to be precise--but his upbringing centered on preserving traditions from Laos, his homeland. A Laotian community thrived in Wichita, he explains, and so in addition to trav...
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Don't be put off by the price tag or the presentation here--if you can spare the cash, you'll be thinking about the sea cucumber for days.Jamie Bissonnette and Ken Oringer waxed poetic on the lowly sea cucumber when we spoke to them about Toro, the s...
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A decade ago, the average New Yorker would be hard-pressed to name 10 destination-worthy Thai restaurants, but as the city's collective palate has expanded, so too have the options for regional cuisines from Southeast Asia; fiery, sour Northeastern I...
