Category: Restaurant

  • Carnegie Diner & Cafe

    Carnegie Diner & Cafe

    Popped out for a quick lunch.

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  • Momofuku Ko

    Momofuku Ko

    After watching all of those David Chang tv shows, we had to eat here. Not much comment but a fantastic dining experience. Of course we were the last ones in the restaurant…

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  • Russian Tea Room

    Russian Tea Room

    At the Russian Tea Room for a Cimplifi event (thank you Trisha). Much caviar and vodka was had (to be clear, none of it was of Russian origin). Trisha introduced us to the concept of fried chicken and caviar tonight. Winner winner chicken and caviar dinner.

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  • Liberty Bagels

    Liberty Bagels

    Breakfast with my coworker Milan.

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  • Marea

    Marea

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    Tonight’s dinner was at a slightly lower key restaurant. Still 1 Michelin star, but had the benefit of being only a block away from out hotel. Italian cuisine. Cocktails were good but nothing special. Bread (focaccia and a 7-grain) was fine but nothing special. For the oysters, we went with sweet petite from Prince Edward…

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  • Restaurant Daniel

    Restaurant Daniel

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    This was one of the many restaurants on my list to try in NYC. We managed to score same day reservation late, which fortunately wasn’t very late for us since we’re still on pacific time zone. We’re not used to coming in on the second seating so there was a bit of a wait before…

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  • Aquavit

    Aquavit

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    Did have anything planned for this evening, but I started looking for something on the ride from the airport. This ended up being a solid choice…. Friday night, 7 pm, two Michelin star, walking distance. Cuisine is Scandinavian inspired. With a 7pm seating we were right in the rush of service and it felt like…

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  • Le Fantastique

    Le Fantastique

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    Tonight’s dinner was at Le Fantastique, a new restaurant that opened up a few months ago, with French and Japanese influences. They boast a McIntosh audio system and a turntable to play vinyl which of course interested me. We had an early reservation (which we always prefer) and we were in fact the first diners…

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  • Birch & Rye

    Birch & Rye

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    This week’s dinner was at the newest restaurant in our neighborhood. We were very happy to see this open up on the previous location for Mahila and Contigo before that. Cocktails were very tasty utilizing vodka infusions. We, of course, went for the caviar service with imported Russian caviar paired with the horseradish infused vodka.…

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  • Cotogna

    Cotogna

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    Spoiler – this was a great meal esp. for the money. This is a sister restaurant to Quince, which is one of our favorite restaurants. It was as difficult to get a reservation here as at Quince. Every time we’ve dined at Quince we’ve always wondered about Cotogna next door which looked great. We finally…

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