Holy Mole Week at La Palapa

La Palapa, a Mexican restaurant renowned (by me) for excellent Margaritas is launching a special menu next week. Chef Barbara Sibley is serving 6 dishes featuring mole (mole comes in several varieties & colors; Poblano, Oaxaca, San Pedro Actopan, see Wikipedia for more info) will be on offer for a week starting on Easter Sunday. As per [...]

Food News

Randolph Beer coming to Broome St. from Gothamist 9th St. Espresso will be taking over part of the old Life Cafe via EV Grieve Awesome ramen infographic from HackCollege Lanza’s celebrates it’s 108th birthday with special lunches via Neighborhoodr. Eater reports that Kate’s Joint might have to add meat to the menu. Edi & The Wolf expanding into [...]

Back Forty Offering Chicken Dinners

Back Forty (reviews here) will be offering a 2 course dinner featuring a soup, buttermilk fried chicken (with sides) & a beer for $25. via Tasting Table: Comfort food reigns supreme on Sunday and Monday nights at Back Forty. In addition to the regular menu, the restaurant offers a special dinner of seasonal soup followed [...]

Acme

Back in May of last year I wrote about how Acme, one of my favorite Southern food mainstays, had unceremoniously closed (employees were given no notice at all), completely gutted (EVGrieve has coverage) & after lengthy renovations opened as a Nordic (by way of Scandinavia) restaurant. The team from Bond St. managed to convince Chef Mads Refslund, a [...]

Choice Eats 2012

I’ve been to a few Food Events over the past few years, so it wasn’t my first rodeo, but nothing prepared me for the scale of this year’s Choice Eats tasting event that took place last week. I thought I’d be clever & arrive 15 minutes early to ‘avoid the crowd’, but we were greeted [...]

Joe’s Bar Becoming Josie’s?

After Joe’s Bar owner passed away last Thanksgiving, the future of the bar has been totally up in the air. There are rumors that Bob Corton, part of the team at nearby Sophie’s & Mona’s farther north will be taking over the space & it will be called Josie’s. According to the rumor-mill, Joe’s ‘widow’ [...]

Stinky Cheese Festival 2012

Quite by chance, a friend clued me up on a celebration of stinky cheese that was going on in early February. As a lover of both cheese & booze, I felt it was my duty to attend, stuff my face full of cheese & report.

Akter Grocery Busted Again

Akter Grocery (aka Anwar Grocery) was shut by the NYPD on New Year’s Eve for selling alcohol to minors & operating with an expired liquor license. Apparently they’re at it again & have been shuttered for the second time. I passed by yesterday around 8:30pm & there were several police officers outside shutting the gate & [...]

City Crab & Seafood Company

City Crab has a special place in my heart, it’s a massive two floor restaurant where I’ve enjoyed seafood for the best of 10 years. Before I really ‘got into’ food, I learned the basics about seafood here. The restaurant has a pretty typical ‘old-school seafood restaurant’ vibe; wood paneling, high tables & the obligatory tank full [...]

The Meatball Factory

Meatballs seem to be ‘trending’ right now, so when I got an invite from McKenzie of MMMGuide to sample some of the food at The Meatball Factory, she didn’t have to ask me twice. The ‘Factory’ opened about 3 months ago & serves salad, pizzas, fettuccine & obviously meatballs.