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Greece, Restaurants, Santorini

Dinner at Red Bicycle – Santorini

Red Bicycle or Kokkino Podilato is probably best known from Giada in Paradise. In the episode, Giada goes to Red Bicycle for breakfast. (She also goes to another restaurant and orders tomato fritters only to wrap them in a napkin for later. Is it just me, or is that ghetto granny-style?) Well, I didn’t go there for breakfast, and in fact, I didn’t even plan to go there because of all the online reviews saying it was overpriced and overrated, but one night while aimlessly wandering the marble streets of Oia looking for a place to eat (the place I originally wanted to go to was closed for a event), my little group stumbled upon Red Bicycle. MORE »

Events, MePa, Recipes

Grand Tasting at the NYC Wine & Food Festival – NYC

10.18.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I still have an infinite amount of Asian fooding photos to go through, but I thought I would take a break and write about last week’s Grand Tasting at the New York City Wine & Food Festival (NYCWFF). Last Saturday, David and I spent an hour and a half at Pier 54 where lots of wine and food were to be had. We ate, drank, and ate some more, but since I want to keep this post to a reasonable length, covered here are just the day’s most delectable bites. MORE »

Small Shops, West Village

Fish & Chips at A Salt & Battery – NYC

03.18.09 | Permalink | 10 Comments

Whiting Innards @ A Salt & Battery

I can’t stand Throwdown! with Bobby Flay. If you aren’t familiar with the show, basically Bobby Flay, a classically trained chef, goes around the country challenging small-time cooks to a cook-off of their specialty dish. Unfair is an understatement, especially when you consider Bobby appears each time unannounced at the poor victim’s mom and pop shop, with high tech gadgets and gizmos, fancy ingredients, and two sous-chefs in tow. It’s completely absurd, but even more absurd is that Bobby Flay usually loses, even with the odds in his favor.

So normally, I don’t give in to the hype of any restaurants featured on the show, but when I saw the Fish and Chips Throwdown! a few weeks ago with Mat Arnfield from A Salt & Battery winning, I have to admit I was intrigued. David loves the fish and chips at the Coffee Shop in Union Square, so once in a while I’m dragged there against my will. You see, I’m not a big fan of the Coffee Shop. The food isn’t horrible, but the pretentious wannabe actors/models working there drive me crazy. The place seems to be more about scene rather than food. Once the bouncer there actually tried to start a fight with a guy in my group because he claimed he pushed him. Now aren’t bouncers supposed to be stopping fights not starting them? So as a result, I’ve been trying to find a decent fish and chips place without much luck in New York for the past few years. A Salt & Battery I heard was good, but when their 2nd Avenue location closed a while back, I thought they were gone for good. However, after watching the Fish and Chips Throwdown!, I learned they still had a shop in the West Village, so this past Sunday, I dragged David to A Salt & Battery with hopes of finding him a new favorite fish and chip shop. MORE »

Gave in & had Señor Pollo chicken & maduros again 2nite. Also, noticed that block is becoming chicken row. Ppl luv chicken. Me included.

The Archives

Greece, Restaurants, Santorini

Dinner at Red Bicycle – Santorini

Events, MePa, Recipes

Grand Tasting at the NYC Wine & Food Festival – NYC

Small Shops, West Village

Fish & Chips at A Salt & Battery – NYC

Whiting Innards @ A Salt & Battery

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