Restaurant Review: Somssi and Noury in NYC
New York is a tongue town. Katz’s has been slicing it by the pound for decades. It’s a…
Restaurant Review: Pablo Rivero’s Graciela in NYC
It was a hot Argentina summer — except in Argentina, where, being southerly hemisphered, it was a cool…
Restaurant Review: Oriana in NYC
Oriana, the name, first crops up in literature as a term of praise. The Triumphs of Oriana is…
Restaurant Review: Zoli in East Williamsburg
Of all the alerts and inquiries I’ve received from restaurants — soliciting my preferences, my allergies, my aversions,…
Restaurant Review: Marcel Is Overcurated and Underwhelming
Three days after Sotheby’s successfully auctioned a Rothko for $85.8 million, I dined with the acquisitions class at…
Restaurant Review: Odo East Village
The durational work of art will always have its day. Jeanne Dielman. Lonesome Dove. Ponderously weighty, they bring…
Dean’s Is a Soho Local
To love the pub is to lament the pub. It’s never as good as it was. Kingsley Amis,…
Restaurant Review: Confidant in Brooklyn Heights
If at first you don’t succeed, location, location, location.” Isn’t that how it goes? Confidant, a gamely ambitious…
Ambassadors Clubhouse in New York
“Oh, Ambassador, you’re spoiling us!” a Londoner I know likes to quip. In the U.K., it’s a semi-famous…
Pierogi Boys in Ridgewood, Queens
When a DJ in Ridgewood tells you he’s found local schnitzel that’s better than anything he got during…
Golden Steer Steakhouse in NYC
The steakhouse, that most American of restaurant genres, has in recent years been co-opted by foreign interests. To…
Blizzard Buries New York: Live Updates, Snowfall, Impact
Christina Farrell, the newly appointed commissioner of New York City Emergency Management, spoke to ABC7 about the work…