Nom Wah Tea Parlor, Chinatown, NYC: Stop on Doyer Street Crawl
I arrived early on Doyer Street to meet my friend for our Chinatown birthday crawl. I noticed no line at Nom Wah, Chinatown's first Dim [...]
River Cafe Pasta With Cloumage
Trolling online for recipes to use the Cloumage® I received from a fellow Les Dames d'Escoffier board member, I tripped over one purportedly based on [...]
Shy Brothers Cloumage, A Versatile Tangy Cheese
Cloumage is made from Shy Brothers' coastal Massachusetts farm's cows' milk plus three ingredients. According to the company, their Ayrshire cows enjoy seasons of grasses [...]
Pearlz Oyster Bar & Fleet Landing, Charleston, South Carolina
I recently returned from a visit to Charleston with my siblings and their spouses. It was the first time we've all vacationed together. What follows [...]
Most Recent Bites
Cacio E Pepe, East Village, NYC
I dined with the owner's relatives at Cacio e Pepe six years ago. I loved it and couldn't wait to return. After the watery Cacio e Pepe at Basta Pasta, we decided to visit the original [...]
Haven Rooftop, Midtown, NYC + Prayer for French Republic
Haven Rooftop, atop the Sanctuary Hotel, is in the heart of the theatre district, making it a good spot for pre-theatre brunch. We stopped in before heading west on 47th to see the final performance [...]
Three days a month: Marc 179, Tribeca, NYC
A building mate emailed me about the opening of Marc179, Marc Murphy's (Landmarc, Ditch Plains and Chopped) latest unique venture in Tribeca. Marc 179 is open only three days a month. offering a rotating $75 [...]
Brunch at Sesamo, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC + White Chip
We returned to Sesamo for brunch before heading to MCC to see White Chip, a play with a stellar lineup of producers, including Jason Biggs, John Larroquette, Hank Azaria, and Annaleigh Ashford—the wife of Joe [...]
Happy Hour** at Rick Bayless’s Tortazo, Times Square, NYC + Doubt
I've meant to try Rick Bayless's Tortazo since it opened near Times Square about a year ago. I learned to love this Chicago restaurateur's food at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. Tortazo is a modified version [...]
KFC’s Chizza Pop-Up
My friend—an editor of a restaurant trade publication—invited me to sample KFC's Chizza with her on the day in February when the restaurant had transformed the store into a pop-up, serving the new menu item [...]
Mark’s Off Madison, Gramercy-Flatiron, NYC
Mark's Off Madison had just opened in 2021 when I last visited. That time was for dinner, this one brunch. Mark's is one of Pete Wells’s 100 Best Restaurants for 2023. On the corner of [...]
Jesse Cushman’s Papa Bubble Candies
I had forgotten that I had received an email from Jesse Cushman—my son Eric's friend from Hamden—about his new business venture. He had written that he tried the corporate life, but it wasn't for him. [...]