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Restaurants, SoHo
First Brunch at Osteria Morini – NYC
Happy Sunday! Hope your day was filled with tasty breakfast or brunch eats. BF and I stayed in this morning, and I made poached eggs and toast. I like a good poached egg now and then, but whenever I eat poached eggs, I feel like something is missing. In particular, hollandaise sauce. It’s like mashed potatoes and gravy, wine and cheese, ramyun and kimchi. It just goes together. (Trust me on the last one.) Which reminded me of the stellar brunch I had at Osteria Morini, Chef Michael White’s casual restaurant specializing in food from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, a few weeks ago. Yes, eggs and hollandaise were involved, or to be specific, it being an Italian restaurant, eggs and salsa olandese. MORE »
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Alphabet City, Bakeries, East Village, Restaurants
Eat Downtown Post-Sandy – NYC
I’m back in the East Village! The power came back last Friday, and although it was nice to spend some quality time with the family, there’s just so many nights one can attempt sleep on a hard, Korean grain-filled pillow, and just so many days one can watch the Disney channel (my nephew’s station of choice) without going mad. So I’m back. It’s good to be home. And it’s almost back to normal downtown. Almost… MORE »
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Bath Beach, Gravesend, Restaurants, Small Shops
Pizza and Dumplings in Brooklyn – NYC
09.28.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments
L & B Spumoni Gardens has been on my mental “need to eat” list for a long time. This weekend, it was crossed off, and in the process discovered something that should have been on the list to begin with. Georgian (the country not the state of Honey Boo Boo fame) soup dumplings! What the what?! Yeah, I know! But first, the pizza. MORE »
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East Village, Small Shops
Fried Oreos Will Live On, Even Without Led Zeppole – NYC
The first time I had a fried Oreo, it was at an annual street fair in New York many years ago. Soaked with overused oil, it was probably one of the worst things I ever ate. And trust me, as an adventurous eater, I’ve eaten my share of truly nasty things. So it was with much trepidation I tried a fried Oreo (3 for $3) at Led Zeppole, the carnival dessert shop from the Artichoke people, and good god, it was revelatory. MORE »
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Bowery, Restaurants
Fried Pizza Brunch at Forcella – NYC
05.20.12 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Supposedly, fried pizza has been around for decades in Naples. Yet, it’s only recently fried pizza has become popular in the U.S. Why it took this long, in this land of extreme excess, is beyond me. Perhaps because it’s not actually as health-debilitating as it sounds. MORE »
