[Photo: Kathy Chan] One square big enough to share. A banana cake with the slightest tang of sour cream. A smother of chocolate, closer to a ganache than frosting. And a single banana chip to finish. Thumbs up. If...
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[Flickr: Lanaflickr] Dosas may be the popular choice for Indian brunch in Curry Hill, but the Bowery's Indian-inspired Double Crown takes a totally different approach. Drawing from the historic blending of English and Southeast Asian cuisines, Double Crown's brunch...
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[Photos: Nikki Goldstein; lekkercraft on Flickr] I'd heard that brunch at Public was one of the lesser-known treasure troves in Manhattan, but it was only when they were awarded a Michelin star this year that my ears really perked....
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A lot’s been said about DBGB, Daniel Boulud’s new downtown digs, but brunch hasn’t been discussed much. I wondered why; a menu largely comprised of sausages seemed a perfect fit for a hearty morning meal. Truth be told, there’s...
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Elizabeth's Cinco de Mayo garden party will have a lot of awesome things for 50 cents: shots of Tanteo tequila, tacos (pulled pork and flank steak involved, oh snap!), and scoops of Il Laboratorio del Gelato's chocolate tequila sorbet and...
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Photograph by DelicatesseNY I must confess that I'm kind of a plain cheesecake purist, but this strawberry cheesecake tart from Eileen's is so luscious-looking I'm rethinking my long-held views on this creamy, rich subject. Eileen's Cheesecake 17 Cleveland Place,...
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The bar for tacos in Manhattan is not set very high, and the fish taco bar here is set even lower. So when the owner of Pinche Taqueria announced to the world that he was opening a branch of his Tijuana taqueria, in part to show other downtown taquerias like La Esquina how to make a proper fish taco, it sounded like a plenty plausible throwdown.
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