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Loring Place, NYC
As much as I like checking out new restaurants, at a certain point the frenzy becomes a little ridiculous – thus the lack of restaurant reviews here for a while. Is a restaurant really at its best the split second that it opens its doors, and then just something to be discarded in six months or so after when everyone goes chasing the next new thing? Is it worth waiting in the rain outside because even the bar area is “for reservations only” or frantically refreshing your browser two weeks in advance just for a stupid 6pm time slot on a Monday? If you have a little more patience, it’s worth waiting until after the ravenous herds move out, however, because guess what? A lot of the time the restaurant is still good after six months, maybe even better.
Case in point: Loring Place, which is a neighborhood restaurant for me, and I feel very lucky to have it nearby. Sure, I miss Pat Field’s and all the crazy shoe stores and head shops that used to line this stretch of Eighth Street, but this and other excellent-quality restaurants arriving on the block is something I will happily embrace.
Posted in American, Cuisine, food, Greenwich Village, Neighborhood, New York restaurants, restaurants
Tagged American food, asparagus, cocktails, Dan Kluger, farm to table, fish, vegetables
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Hunt & Fish Club
There’s a glitzy newcomer in town on 44th Street, a midtown stretch that desperately needs more dining options. Hunt & Fish Club falls squarely into the expense account steakhouse category, but here the fish is just as good as the meat. Go for the macho name or the promise of wild boar on the menu, but if you end up ordering something gathered instead of hunted, you will be equally happy. (more…)
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Tagged bars, cocktail bars, fish, French onion soup, pasta, seafood, short ribs, steak
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Claudette
So a new French bistro opened in the neighborhood. This wouldn’t be so remarkable if it weren’t for the closing of so many bistros in Greenwich Village and the East Village over the last decade – often to become a TD Bank – but Claudette, started by the guys who brought you perennially popular Rosemary’s, was big news from the start. “It’s right around the corner from your apartment,” my mom said when we dined here on a random Monday night, months after it opened. “You should make it your neighborhood place.”
“We haven’t been able to get in until now!” This was sadly true. (more…)
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Tagged fish, French food, harissa, seafood, steak
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Trattoria La Griglia
Milan might not be the place that springs to mind when you think of great seafood, but there are some surprisingly good fish restaurants in this city. One of them, and one of the best values, is Trattoria La Griglia on Viale Premuda.
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Tagged fish, seafood, seafood restaurants
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Atrium Dumbo
Of all the neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Dumbo is perhaps the most radically changed since the bad old days of early ’90s New York. Where there once were abandoned factories, artist squats and dark, deserted streets, there’s now a buzz of pedestrian activity, luxury condos and even a fancy florist taking up two storefronts. Atrium Dumbo is a sign of the times, bringing artisanal food and $13 cocktails to a once forlorn area right by the river. (more…)
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Tagged bars, Brooklyn, cocktails, duck, fish, pasta, soup
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