Get to Know Us: Zachary Feldman, 'Midnight Snack'

Editor's note: All over the Serious Eats sites, we've been chatting with all our lovely columnists, helping you get to know the folks behind the articles you read every day. Here's Zachary Feldman, who writes In the Midnight Hour and Midnight Snack, all about late-night eats.

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Name: Zachary Feldman
Location: Upper East Side (the elusive, affordable part)
Occupation: Bittersman, Writer
Website/Twitter: bittersoldmen.com, zachfeldman.com / @bittersoldmen, @zachats

What do you write about on Serious Eats: New York? I write Midnight Snack (and its predecessor, In the Midnight Hour), which focuses on the best bites to be had while mother moon rules over us all.

What are your guilty pleasures, foodwise? Separately, processed cheese and sushi.

Describe your perfect meal. The restaurant formerly and currently known as Brooklyn Fare, back when it was $95/pp and still BYO. Cesar Ramirez has cajones. The man once cooked a lobster sous vide for a month straight.

Where in New York are you a "regular"? Why there? Palacio Azteca, mostly because of convenience (it's down the street). They also happen to have Mexican food that hovers in this great gray area of greasy and moderately authentic, and I get to pat myself on the face for supporting local businesses.

What food won't you eat? Oysters, because I'm allergic, but bring on the cuttlefish and octopus. And canned tuna—that is for cats.

What do your family and friends think of your food obsessions? My family is responsible for my food obsessions. Plus, everyone has to eat, so everyone can talk about food. It's a great unifier.

Everyone has a go-to person they call for restaurant recommendations. Who's yours? No one gives me restaurant recommendations :( They only take, take, take! But my folks are actually pretty on-point, and they have a much cooler social life than I do. I think it's their colorful glasses.

And what's the best recommendation they've given you? Socarrat Paella Bar. My girlfriend also gets serious credit for a recent jaunt to La Esquina Wythe.

Let's say moving out of New York. What would you eat and drink on your last day here? Gluttony all the way. This is a town that swallows you whole and I owe it to do the same. There might not be enough time in a day to cover the omakase at Sasabune, pizza in Midwood, Flushing's offerings, Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, etc. ...confined to one neighborhood, I'd have to go with the East Village: cocktail (and dogs and tots) at PDT, drinks at Lovers of Today, Bar Bar and the Death & Company/Mayahuel family, Otafuku's takoyaki, This Little Piggy's This and That Ways + The Other Thing, Ssam Bar's duck lunch, a grandma slice at Artichoke and an artichoke slice at Grandma (make that a margherita at Motorino). On East 7th alone there's Luke's, Caracas and Porchetta...

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