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Executive chef Angelo Sosa
Hidden bars are nothing new, but still, they continue to open in NYC. Top Chef Angelo Sosa just jumped on the speakeasy train with the debut of Abajo (which means "down" or "under" in Spanish) beneath the Tribeca outpost...
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Focaccia farcita
Depending on your previous night's activities, your morning refueling might call for a bowl of oatmeal cooked with almond milk or a full Irish breakfast piled high with blood sausage and rashers. Though it's harder than ever to c...
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Craving Ukrainian food? Head out to the St. George Festival this Friday.
Summery weather makes us want to get out of the house. You too? Here are five ways to relax with food and drink this week.The Wide World of Vegetables and Fruits, 92nd Stre...
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If you aren't already familiar with the term Jade Helm, now's as good a time as any for a good laugh. What sounds like the title of an upcoming James Bond film is really an upcoming, large-scale military exercise taking place in the Southwest -- if y...
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Steak frites at La Gamelle, now open on the Bowery
Mathieu Palombino gained recognition for his mastery of seafood at BLT Fish before transitioning to firing Neapolitan pizzas at Motorino, where he gained a cult following. Now, though, he's opened...
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Ramps are a wild onion with a viciously short season -- you should get them now, basically, because they'll be gone in a couple of weeks. This rarity is what makes them an object of seasonal obsession all over town.
"I love ramps," says Kenneth Welch...
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Be among the first to taste the offerings from this brand-new brewery.
Queens Beer Week returns to its namesake borough tonight, officially launching its second annual festival at Crescent and Vine (25-03 Ditmars Boulevard, Queens; 718-204-4774) i...
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Crawfish season is up and running at the Redhead in the East Village.
Celebrate your mom this weekend. We've rounded up five of the city's best food and drink events to take her to this weekend.Weekend Dumpling Feast, DumplingGo, 188 Second Avenue...
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Bryan Petroff and Doug Quint
What started with just two guys and a truck has morphed into one of NYC's favorite ice cream destinations. Frozen-dairy titan Big Gay Ice Cream (multiple locations) is known for its locally sourced soft-serve and eccen...
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Baguettes at Arcade Bakery
You'd expect a pastry chef who's pretty much nailed the art of the perfect pie crust not to be blown away by any old traditional pastry. Mastery of something as simple as a crust or shell or loaf of bread takes a long, l...
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Mother's Day is coming up fast, but there's still time to score a great brunch or lunch reservation. Here are some fantastic tables available on OpenTable as of right now.Telepan (72 West 69th Street)
The Upper West Side Greenmarket-inspired classi...
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When we walked into BaoHaus (238 East 14th Street; 646-669-8889), the rapper Young Thug's newest mixtape, Barter 6, was blasting over the speakers, and an employee in a Stussy bucket hat was singing along. The tables were tagged with stickers, and th...
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The Left Hand
When it comes to cocktails, it takes a special kind of drink to pull Marc Forgione bar manager Cary S. Goldberg away from something involving gin. But after a trip to Kentucky left him with a newfound appreciation of bourbon, he foun...
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"The Sodastream will, honest to god, absolutely no exaggeration whatsoever, change your life," said Duncan, evangelically. And so we set out to Bed Bath & Beyond to purchase one and install it in the highly valuable limited real estate of the kitchen...
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There is a shiny new awning that reads "Mexican Grill" on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, and it shades a restaurant wedged between a tobacco shop and a bodega. The signage is new, though the restaurant is the same and so is its name: Alimentos Saludab...
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Gordon and Bachmann visiting coffee farmers in Colombia
Can an upstart coffee company founded by two students (they graduate later this month), named after a spirit animal, which specializes purely in boxed cold-brew coffee offering the convenienc...
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Dan Barber and several other New York chefs won awards this year.
On Monday night, the nation's top chefs, bartenders, and restaurant professionals gathered for the 25th annual James Beard Foundation Awards, hosted at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. A...
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Famed for serving up a slow-cooked, wood-smoked Mexican/barbecue mash-up from its food truck since 2009, lunchtime favorite Mexicue (225 Fifth Avenue) opened its third brick-and-mortar location, in NoMad, last week, just in time for Cinco de Mayo -- ...
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The menu at El Rey Coffee Bar & Luncheonette (100 Stanton Street) enumerates the supporting ingredients of the octopus salad this way: "black bean" puree, hominy salad. Chef Gerardo Gonzalez isn't being cute with those quotation marks. Far from it. T...
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It's hard to remember now, but it wasn't so many years ago that there were very few places in this city where you could find a good cocktail -- the spiritous era in which we find ourselves didn't really begin in earnest until the beginning of the mil...
