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Fri. 06 Feb '09
Dining
Can't score a table at Prune? Give the East Village's new brunch bellwether a try.. Our brunch trips to Belcourt used to correspond directly to the intensity of our... more
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Mon. 16 Nov '09
Dining
Panya's revamped treats will get you through winter. The sudden closure of the Japanese bakery Panya last winter made the season particularly bleak. And just as we were... more
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Tue. 27 Oct '09
Drinks
Drink with the pros at Louis 649's Tuesday Night Tastings. With new bottles appearing on the back-bar all the time, it's impossible to know which are actually worth a... more
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Mon. 22 Jun '09
People
Let Trevor Corson be your sushi concierge. It's conventional wisdom that you should never eat sushi on Mondays. But that's the thing about conventional wisdom: It's not... more
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Fri. 25 Sep '09
People
A lobster wunderkind brings fresh catch to the East Village. Maine native Luke Holden has cultivated more than a pair of sea legs: In lieu of summer camp, he kept company... more
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Tue. 11 Aug '09
Dining
Kajitsu brings Buddhist temple cooking to the East Village. The East Village is already home to one unconventional vegetarian restaurant. And now, just a few doors down,... more
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Fri. 12 Sep '08
Dining
Try the East Village's other tiny, chef-driven restaurant. It's a bold move to serve pork buns just steps away from Momofuku. But Jehangir Mehta, a former Jean-Georges... more
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Wed. 21 Oct '09
Dining
Motorino amps up the New York Fold. As New Yorkers, we pride ourselves on a particular way of doing things, and when it comes to pizza we know there's only one method... more
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Wed. 24 Jun '09
Drinks
Reunite yourself with tequila at Mayahuel. When drinkers tell Phil Ward they don’t like tequila--plastic bottles of bad collegiate booze still knocking about their... more
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Wed. 25 Mar '09
Dining
Stogo's dairy-free desserts are surprisingly delightful. Dairy-free ice cream is great in theory, but most producers add artificial ingredients to the recipe to make up... more
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Mon. 23 Mar '09
Dining
A coffee shop with amazing food--or a restaurant with amazing coffee?. You'd be forgiven for thinking Simon Sips is just another great East Village coffee shop: After... more
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Fri. 06 Mar '09
Dining
Cheap meats at Buenos Aires are the real deal . Eating at a quality steakhouse no longer requires having an expense account. If your company is tightening the purse... more
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Fri. 20 Feb '09
Dining
Kyo Ya is a not-so-ancient Japanese secret . If you weren't specifically looking for Kyo Ya, you'd pass right by the stairs that lead to this underground East Village... more
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Tue. 17 Feb '09
Dining
Abraco makes room for a midday combo. Stellar espresso and brew-to-order drip coffee have started a buzz about Abraço, the petite East Village coffee shop where... more
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Tue. 13 Jan '09
Dining
A new hot spot for after-hours dining. Even in nonstop New York, late-night dining often boils down to a wilted slice of pizza. But in less than a year, The Redhead has... more
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Wed. 05 Nov '08
Dining
Dirt Candy serves vegetable-driven dishes everyone will love. We don't have anything against vegetarians. Our beef, so to speak, is with vegetarian restaurants, whose... more
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Tue. 21 Oct '08
Dining
A tiny restaurant finally settles into its neighborhood. When it lost its founding chef and original location in 2006, we feared the worst for Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar.... more
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Wed. 15 Oct '08
Wine
Surrender yourself to sherry at Terroir. "For 3,000 years, sherry has witnessed the fall of empires, Phoenicians, Romans, the Caliphate, Spanish, British and now... more
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Thu. 11 Sep '08
Drinks
When life hands you beer and wine, make Tric-quila . The East Village's community board is notoriously prudish when granting liquor licenses. So when Mercadito's new... more
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Wed. 04 Nov '09
Dining
The Redhead does brunch. At some point, The Redhead may have been your neighborhood secret, but that's no longer the case. One dish alone--fried chicken--pulled chef Meg... more
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Wed. 20 May '09
Drinks
Got a buck? Drink like a prince at these top bars.. Though the dollar's value has plummeted worldwide, there's one location where the greenback is more valuable than... more
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Tue. 19 May '09
Dining
Table 8's pomp can be enjoyed for a pittance. Table 8 has not been starved for attention since it opened in the swank new Cooper Square Hotel earlier this month. But... more
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Wed. 06 May '09
Drinks
Midnight is the new 5 p.m. at these late-night happy hours . Happy hour can be both alluring and irritating: Securing cheap drinks is often a race against the clock, as... more
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Mon. 20 Apr '09
Drinks
A new group will guide you to better brew. If you think life's too short to drink bad beer, then let the Good Beer Seal be your guide to a better drinking life. This... more
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Tue. 14 Apr '09
People
At DBGB, Daniel Boulud will usher in a new era of Good Beer. After Daniel Boulud famously elevated the hamburger to luxury-goods status, should we be surprised that he... more
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Tue. 02 Dec '08
Drinks
Three shops where you can booze while you browse for holiday gifts. Elsa Between drinking martinis or microbrews poured through an antique sewing machine, you can be... more
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Mon. 29 Sep '08
Dining
Back Forty's pork jowls are a cheeky, irresistible cheap eat. Think of Back Forty—the year-old Avenue B spot from restaurateur Peter Hoffman—as the casual kid... more
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Wed. 24 Sep '08
People
A new sandwich shop and cookbook from chef Sara Jenkins. This fall is shaping up to be a good one for Sara Jenkins: First, her excellent new cookbook, Olives &... more
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Tue. 20 Oct '09
Cooking
Brooklyn Brine bends the rules. It's hard to stand out in the city's competitive parade of pickles, but Brooklyn Brine's new whiskey sour is already a principal... more
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Mon. 31 Aug '09
Dining
Make a tasty transition into fall with this month's top stories. The sun finally came out (and with a vengeance) just as summer's drawing to a close. This recap of... more
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Tue. 16 Dec '08
Dining
Top pastry chefs are elevating this Christmassy confection to new heights. Sadly, a Three Musketeers bar is usually as close as we get to real nougat. But during the... more
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Fri. 30 Oct '09
Dining
Circling back on the month's best stories. Though it may not be official until we "fall back" this weekend, the days have been feeling shorter (and consequently busier)... more
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Wed. 28 Oct '09
People
Inside the Momofuku book, plus a bonus recipe. Given the hype, David Chang and Peter Meehan's Momofuku is slimmer than you'd expect it to be. It's not one of those... more
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Tue. 28 Jul '09
Drinks
Restaurants pour custom-made proprietary beers. Your favorite local microbreweries are crafting some of the best beer you've never heard of. That's because these beers... more
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Tue. 16 Jun '09
Drinks
Refreshing horchata goes behind the bar. Huge jars of milky-white horchata are a familiar sight at taquerias and the Red Hook ball fields, but this summer, the Latin... more
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Fri. 22 May '09
Cooking
The country's first Japanese butcher shop opens in NYC. The iconographic American butcher shop has sawdust on the floor, an ornery old man wearing a blood-smeared smock... more
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Fri. 13 Mar '09
Dining
Go to Duane Park for the food; stay for the burlesque . Marisa Ferrarin sure knows how to spice up a place. After completely re-doing Duane Park Café (now simply... more
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Thu. 26 Feb '09
Dining
A new wine-country restaurant with New York DNA. It's 2,925 miles from western Sonoma County to Manhattan's East Village, but recent transplants Ginevra Iverson and Eric... more
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Tue. 30 Dec '08
Drinks
Put leftover Champagne to good use in these uplifting drinks. One bonus of a successful New Year's Eve party is a fridge full of leftover Champagne. But if you're... more
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Fri. 26 Dec '08
Dining
Bring these haute chicken wings home for game day. We love eating chicken wings while we're watching football, as long as we don't have to cook them. And we're just plain... more
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Mon. 20 Oct '08
People
Sake sommelier Chris Johnson picks his favorite rice-wine bars. Chris Johnson is New York's best defense against the sake bomb. Since the early days of the sushi craze,... more
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Thu. 02 Oct '08
Dining
Free bibimbap, mixology boot camp and a school yard pig roast. Thursday, 10/2-Saturday, 10/4BibimbashTo celebrate Korean Restaurant Week, many of city's best Korean spots... more
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Mon. 19 Oct '09
Dining
Explore a world of flavors--on bread . With all the commotion about banh mi lately, you'd think these Vietnamese stuffed baguettes are the only wickedly good... more
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Fri. 21 Nov '08
Cooking
Kick off your Thanksgiving with an edible cocktail. We're usually cautious about new cocktail trends, but we're suckers for the latest innovation from the city's... more
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