New York City Guide Archive
Food and the City: All Things SweetFood and the City: Ethnic Restaurants
Food and the City: Food Shopping
Food and the City: Intro
Food and the City: Midscale and Lunch Restaurants
Food and the City: Only in NY
Food and the City: Upscale Restaurants
NYC: Readers' Guide and Get-Together!
New York, New York!
Off to New York City!
July 8, 2005
Food and the City: Food Shopping
Besides eating out at restaurants, what is the other capital dimension through which to explore a city and its food scene? Food shopping! Show me your grocery stores, and I'll try to guess how you eat at home when no one's looking, how you cook and how you feed your friends. As in all other respects, New York did not disappoint. I loved the hyp...
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July 5, 2005
Food and the City: Only in NY
When I left for NYC armed with a highly enthusing list of suggestions, recommendations and must-eats, I was determined to make the culinary most of my stay. But in a city such as this, it can certainly be an overwhelming mission statement: where do you start, what do you choose, where do you go? As often in the trickier situations of life, foreth...
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July 4, 2005
Food and the City: Ethnic Restaurants
And let me open this week's program with more food memories from my trip to New York City, introducing a handful of ethnic restaurants. (Apologies for the not-so-great picture, I only had my phone with me when I encountered this arepa!) Dim-sum @ Golden Bridge I will start with a sore disappointment and just get it out of the way. Maxence and I...
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June 30, 2005
Food and the City: Upscale Restaurants
During my stint in NYC, I had the occasion to dine at a few restaurants that I would qualify as upscale -- Jean Georges, Blue Hill and Babbo -- a very pleasant experience I will now gladly relate. Jean Georges The first in this series was Jean Georges, to which I went for lunch. I was very excited about it, having heard a lot about the Alsatian...
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June 29, 2005
Food and the City: Midscale and Lunch Restaurants
Now that my sweet NYC memories are safely tucked away (leave it to me to put dessert first, always!), we have quite a bit of savory ground to cover, and I will start with a little batch of midscale/lunch places: 'Ino, Freemans, Pearl Oyster Bar and Teany (see end of post for coordinates). 'Ino On Friday night I stepped out of the plane, a bit d...
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June 27, 2005
Food and the City: All Things Sweet
In my mind, one of the most defining (and endearing) features of American cuisine is its shameless, over-the-top sweet tooth: giant chunky cookies with a tender heart, proud muffins that could feed a family of four, voluptuous cakes slathered with frosting, life buoy sized doughnuts, velvety ice-cream loaded with goodies... I love them all, and I...
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June 25, 2005
Food and the City: Intro
[Photography by Maxence] What is it with a city that makes you fall head-over-heels for it? Is it the energy that it glows with, is it the sunshine, is it the fabulous food, the designer boutiques, the million little streets just a few blocks from the skyscrapers, the feeling of being in a movie, the meeting of like-minded friends, the walking, t...
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June 17, 2005
Off to New York City!
Well, this is it! All packed and excited and ready to go, with my print-out of the C&Z readers' guide to NYC, a tasty snack for the plane (Amanda Hesser's good advice was not lost on this girl) and dreams of skylines and designer stores and art collections and brownstones and marquees (and bialys and cupcakes). And if you are in NYC this Sunday ...
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June 7, 2005
NYC: Readers' Guide and Get-Together!
Two weeks ago, I posted about my impending trip to NYC, and asked for your advice and suggestions. Little did I know how overwhelming the response would be! Dozens upon dozens of recommendations for restaurants, stores, bars, sights, etc. Such a wealth of knowledge could not go uncompiled, so I worked on putting together a little C&Z Readers' Gui...
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May 24, 2005
New York, New York!
Photography by cmiper Well, it looks like Maxence and I will be spending a few days in New York City this June -- my excitement can barely be contained. I have long wanted to return to this city, which I visited just once when I was 15. Ten years later, I have read a lot more books and articles and restaurant reviews and blogs, I have seen a lo...
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