Where and What to Eat on Upper West Side of Manhattan

A reader requested a pocket guide to eating on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Here goes, and I'm sure I missed a couple of places. I like Celeste on 84th and Amsterdam for cheap Italian food, the bagels at...

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1 Comment | Posted by Ed Levine, April 20, 2006 at 6:25 PM
Tagged: Absolute Bagels, Ali Baba, Artie's, Beard Papa, Celeste, Fairway Cafe, favorites, Grand Szechuan, Italian, La Caridad, Land, New Pizza Town, New York, New York City, Nice Matin, NYC, Onera, Ouest, Saigon Grill, Soutine, T and R, Upper West Side

Grandma Pizza in the Hood

I am a huge fan of what is called Grandma pizza, a thin-crusted Sicilian-style pan pizza that's really popular on Long Island. In Manhattan, Grandma pizza has been very hard to come by. Maffei on sixth avenue and 22nd Street...

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2 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, October 31, 2005 at 1:59 PM
Tagged: Adrienne's, grandma slice, Maffei, New Pizza Town, pizza