Imagine your local Greek coffee shop or diner being taken over by a hard-working fancypants celebrity chef, who happens to be Greek-American. Sounds promising, doesn't it? See what chef
Michael Psilakis (of Anthos, Kefi, and Mia Dona) has done at the new Gus and Gabriel Gastropub on the Upper West side.
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A few weeks ago my wife met some friends for lunch at Kefi, and she reported that the restaurant at midday was an oasis of relative calm and serenity. Even more important, she raved about the food.
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Greek yogurt I ended up at Kefi twice this weekend—not really on purpose, but I didn't regret it either time. Both visits, I got the same two desserts because I didn't want my fellow dinners to leave without trying...
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Or.. "Meeting My Feta on Ninth Avenue" Editor's note: It's time for another dispatch from Serious Eats community member BaHa, aka Barbara Hanson, who checks in now and again about the various one-of-a-kind food stores and markets in New York....
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Photograph from Eating In Translation on Flickr With a nibble of gingerbread here, a snowman-shaped sugar cookie there, my cookie tolerance is wearing thin. It's weird to be a borderline cookie hater right now, but I just need a...
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Who better to teach us where to buy Greek food in Astoria than Michael Psilakis, executive chef of Greek restaurants Anthos and Kefi? New York magazine followed Psilakis with a video camera as he visited Greek food purveyors, including...
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Michael Psilakis, executive chef at at Greek restaurants Anthos (36 West 52nd Street, New York NY 10019) and Kefi (222 West 79th Street, New York NY 10024) and at Italian joint Mia Dona, (206 East 58th Street, New York...
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