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Duran Sandwiches

Like all Americans I love few things more than a good sandwich. But two slices of bread filled with a heaping of meat, cheese and mayo increasingly feels like an indulgence my gut can’t afford as often as I would like. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want to be […]

Bite of Hong Kong

Why Come Here? Authentic Cantonese cooking with interesting specialties and an emphasis on seafood Chinese food in New York tends to fall into two categories: the Americanized sweet & salty stuff we all have a love-hate relationship with, dumpling-heavy dim sum and the spicier Szechuan style. Personally I love all […]

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Sauvage

Sauvage comes from the team behind Maison Premiere, New York’s “Premiere” destination for oysters and absinthe. While this helps make Maison one of my favorite spots in the city, I’ve never actually eaten anything cooked there. But I had faith in the team to execute on their new ambitious French […]

Dirt Candy, Best Vegetarian Restaurant NYC, Amanda Cohen, Lower East Side

Dirt Candy

Why Come Here? New York’s best vegetarian restaurant It seems like a hot new vegetarian / vegan restaurant is opening every couple weeks in New York. But Dirt Candy is the original gangster of the gourmet greens movement and still the one to beat. Even eight years on and with […]

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Chikarashi

Why Come Here? Gourmet Poke bowls that are easily NYC’s best 2016 may be known as the year poke-sanity invaded New York, and I sorry but I don’t mean Pokemon Go. I’m talking about Poke (prounouned po-kay… yes like pokemon), an Asian-influenced Hawaiian dish that traditionally consists of soy sauce […]