Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Eat Cheap | New York Magazine

Eat Cheap | New York Magazine

전반적으로 뉴욕에서의 외식은 세계적인 대도시라는 명성에 맞게 꽤 비싼 편에 속한다. 그래서 여기서도 싸고 맛있는 식당을 찾으려는 노력은 꾸준히 있다. 그 중에서 꽤 믿을만한 NY Magazine 에서 제공하는  Eat Cheap이란 섹션이 있다.

http://nymag.com/restaurants/cheapeats/

FIVE STARS

1. Tanoreen
We’re not unreasonable people. We wouldn’t send you to the ends of the earth (not the earth, maybe, just the R line; it’s the third-to-last stop) without good reason. That reason is spice alchemist Rawia Bishara, whose métier is the cuisine of the Middle East, as her mother cooked it in Nazareth and as Bishara brilliantly reinterprets it. The modest storefront’s display case contains treasures untold, garlic-amped parsley-ringed platters that challenge long-held perceptions about the true nature of things as pedestrian as hummus and baba ghannouj. Eggplant is a means to many sublime, deeply smoky ends. Lamb is chopped and encased in a crunchy kibbeh shell, or braised for hours on the bone. As you savor your meal in a kind of stunned silence, try to discern the individual components of the signature Tanoreen spices that Bishara scatters about like pixie dust.
7704 Third Ave., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; 718-748-5600


NYC Top 5 Brunch Spots

INSIDE
There’s much to love about Charleen Badman’s seasonal comfort-food menu, not least the signature matzo brei owner Anne Rosenzweig brought downtown with her from Lobster Club.

FREEMANS
Besides being your best chance of penetrating this hipster hangout, brunch is the time for poached eggs with golf-ball-size lamb sausages, a terrific roast-pork sandwich, and tasty if geriatric yogurt with stewed plums.

ALIAS
Mellow and low-key, Alias gives the jaded bruncher some offbeat options: goetta, for instance, the Cincinnatian pork-scrap delicacy, and one of the few fried-chicken-and-waffles you’ll find below 110th Street.

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Chef Annie Wayte’s “full English breakfast” is more dainty than hearty, as befits the setting: a café plunked down in the middle of a chichi boutique. The scones are highly recommended, as is the homemade jam.

BEAST
Grab an outdoor table at this Prospect Heights tavern–cum–tapas bar and make your way through the Sunday papers with a mug of rich, Brooklyn-roasted Gorilla coffee and the excellent fried polenta. The so-called small plates aren’t—not at brunch, anyway.

NYC TOP 5 Burgers


SHAKE SHACK
A stinging slap in the face of the Great Gourmet Burger Movement from a few years back, the Shack Burger is a thing of simple beauty, made from a freshly ground mix of sirloin and brisket, loosely packed and served on a squishy bun that quickly becomes one with the crisp-edged meat.

BLUE SMOKE
This is the second-best burger in town, and it’s no surprise that, like the Shack Burger above (to say nothing of the great burger at Union Square Cafe), it comes from a Danny Meyer kitchen. Meyer is known as a groundbreaking restaurateur, but his greatest legacy might be his contribution to the burger pantheon.

BURGER JOINT
BURGER JOINT
A no-frills char-grilled burger, well proportioned and modestly accoutred, that never fails to hit the spot.

DONOVAN’S PUB
The city’s premier bar burger. Order it with grilled onions and American cheese, and have it at the bar, a room thick with history and the occasional impenetrable brogue.

SCHNÄCK
You can order up to four 1-ounce Schnäckie patties stuffed into a single house-made mini-bun. But it’s more fun to order a whole pile of singles as if you were training for a competitive-eating contest.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Reborn_Process | Soho

Reborn_Process | Soho
35 crosby st. new york, NY10013

몇 없는 트위터에서 Follow 하는 사람 중에 유일한 유명인이 하는 옷집. 궁금해서 찾았지만 하필 그날 문을 닫아서 가지 못했다는 ^^.

Feast of San Gennaro in New York's Historic Little Italy

The 82nd Annual Feast of San Gennaro, the oldest, biggest and best known Italian festival in the United States, will begin on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 and continue through Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. 

The beloved Feast of San Gennaro is an annual celebration of the Patron Saint of Naples. The first Feast in New York City took place on September 19, 1926 when newly arrived immigrants from Naples settled along Mulberry Street in the Little Italy section of New York City and decided to continue the tradition they had followed in Italy to celebrate the day in 305 A.D. when Saint Gennaro was martyred for the faith. 

Since then, the Feast has grown from a one-day street festival to a gala 11-day event. On September 19th during each Feast, a Religious Procession, including the Statue of San Gennaro, winds along the length of Mulberry and Mott Streets, between Canal and Houston Streets. The procession begins immediately following a Celebratory Mass held at the Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street, the National Shrine of San Gennaro.


VESUVIO BAKERY | Soho

160 Prince St # B New York, NY 10012
Known for it’s Italian style coal burning stove baked bread and pastries.

Cupcake Cafe | Flatiron

Cupcake Cafe | Flatiron
18 W 18th St New York, NY 10011

Friday, September 17, 2010

Cafe ZAIYA | Midtown

 @KINOKUNIYA   1073 Ave. of the Americas New York, NY 10018
Bryant Park 맞은 편에 KINOKUNIYA 란 일본 서점 이층에 있다.  딱히 맛이 훌륭하다고 할 수 없지만 깔끔한 인테리어에 도시락과 차 한잔이 Tax까지 5불이라는 훌륭한 메뉴가 있어서 가벼운 점심으로 사람을 만나기엔 딱인 곳이 아닐까 싶다.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Joe's Shanghai | China Town

9 Pell St. (bet. Bowery & Mott St.) Manhattan, NY 10013 | Phone: 212-233-8888
The first Joe's Shanghai was founded in Flushing, New York in 1995. Immediately our two special soup dumplings, crab pork meat became a New York favorite. Other special dishes includes Shredded Turnip Shortcake; Twin Prawns in Chili Sauce; Crispy Whole Yellow Fish; Lion's Head (Stewed Pork Balls), Braised Duck, Braised Pork Shoulders and not to mention our different varieties of cold cuts like Wine Chicken; Shanghai Fried Bean Curd.

Recommend menu : Soup dumplings, Twin Prawns in Chili Sauce