Print'New York Times' Dining Roundup
Yelp: You too can be a restaurant critic. Yelp boasts 4 million written reviews and 15 million visitors a month, although "sites with higher gastronomic pretensions" like "Serious Eats tend to be dismissive."
Chocolate Entrepreneurs: A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador cut out the middlemen and started making and marketing their own chocolate. Kallari bars are named for the cooperative they formed.
Taking Champagne Back to Its Roots: Small producers like Anselme Selosse are intent on restoring the ideas of vineyard, terroir and wine to the perception of Champagne. (It's not just about glitz!)
Simon Hopkinson: The English chef, author of the “most useful cookbook of all time,” has written an even juicier sequel.
Junk Food: Tough economic times raise the question: how much does it really cost to eat a healthy diet?
More Bad News about Big Food Production : Fifty percent or more of the diversity of chicken ancestral breeds has been lost, making chickens more susceptible to disease outbreaks.
One Star: That's what Frank Bruni gives the self-impressed Bobo, where food "yo-yoed between so-so and no-no."
New Financial District Spot: The Libertine by Todd English might be an awkward name for a restaurant, but "it’s a pretty good place to eat." "In his homage to English pub food, Mr. English piles salt on top of fat on top of meat on top of starch."
More than a Bar: Char No. 4 in Carroll Gardens has the city's most encyclopedic whiskey selection in the city and a great B.L.T. made with house-smoked bacon.
Pizza Moto: Dave Sclarow has been spotted in recent weeks at the Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene, toting a homemade brick-and-concrete pizza oven mounted on a boat trailer. The pizza is charred on the bottom and the edges, chewy inside, and wonderful.
Pickles: Lowcountry Produce sells sweet-tart green tomato pickles, perfect for burger coverage.
Lots of Meat: Cesare Casella will open Salumeria Rosi on the Upper West Side tomorrow. Murray’s Real Salami is already selling all sorts of cured meats and pâtés in the Grand Central Market.
Candied Popcorn from San Francisco: 479 Degrees takes its name from the temperature at which popcorn pops. Fleur de sel-caramel is the flavor of choice.
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2 Comments:
Went to Char No 4 on Halloween and it is A-MAZE-ING!
mh330 at 8:09AM on 11/06/08
Serious Eats is so far from pretentious! I believe I've read reviews here for $1 fried chicken stands and the like. Just because the only picture of a torso posted on this site would probably be part of a cake does not make SE a beacon of food snobbery.
liwinegirl at 3:35PM on 11/06/08