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Empellon Cocina

Why Come Here? NYC’s most innovative Mexican cooking, great cocktails and snacks at the bar Right Amount for 2: About four dishes Empellon Cocina is Alex Stupak’s follow up to Empellon Taqueria, a long time member of my Go To Spots list for Mexican. Despite it’s location in the East […]

Brooklyn Crab

Why Come Here? A coastal style seafood shack in New York City, complete with cornhole and mini-golf Red Hook. If you’ve been to this land that the subway system forgot, it’s more likely you were picking up a new set of dinner plates than something to actually eat (it’s home […]

42 The Restaurant

Why Come Here? Fantastic views, food fit for foodies and their grandmas, Westchester’s best special occasion restaurant 42 is so named due to it’s perch on the 42nd floor of the Ritz-Carlton Westchester. If you’ve been to White Plains or anywhere else in Westchester, you probably realize that not only […]

Neapolitan Express

Why Come Here? Tasty Neapolitan style pies for under $10, NYC’s lowest emission food truck As food trucks have grown throughout New York to cover nearly every food type, one that I had thus far stayed away from is the pizza truck. Somehow it just didn’t seem right. Unless you’re […]

Birreria @ Eataly

Why Come Here? Rooftop dining with a selection of beers you wonโ€™t find anywhere else Right Amount for 2?ย 2 Entrees Portobello w/ burrata & candied apricots Birreria is a year round open-air eating/drinking space on the roof of Mario Bataliโ€™s gastrotemple/tourist-trap known as Eataly. But what kind of place Birreria […]