[Photos: Tia Kim] I rarely venture into the Financial District. However, when I heard there was a new bar, called Vintry Wine & Whiskey, offering eighty wines normally served by the bottle in two ounce and five ounce tastings,...
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In her column "Raising the Bar," author of Bionic Bites Tia Kim will be checking out the grub at a different bar each week. [Photos: Tia Kim] For me, a drink on a Tuesday night can mean only one thing:...
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In her column "Raising the Bar," author of Bionic Bites Tia Kim will be checking out the grub at a different bar each week. [Photos: Tia Kim] Sometimes in search of the flashy and new, we forget the tried and...
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In her column "Raising the Bar," Bionic Bites author Tia Kim will be checking out the grub at a different bar each week. [Photos: Tia Kim] I'm always on the look-out for good fish and chips, so for the past...
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[Photos: Tia Kim] White Slab Palace—a Scandinavian bar in the Lower East Side from the previous owners of Good World—has been getting a lot of bad press since it opened, mostly because of the service. And at times, I'll...
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"It's the most luscious barbecue I've ever had at a bar." [Photos: Tia Kim] Looks can be deceiving at Waterfront Ale House. Seventeen beers on tap? By the looks of the homey neighborhood bar a block down from the Kips...
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"You may feel like you're dining in a mall restaurant along the Garden State Parkway, but the food is solid." [Photos: Tia Kim] It didn't look promising when I entered Bar Stuzzichini. It was dark, and there was just too...
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[Photo: Tia Kim] Every neighborhood has a bar the residents like to call their own, but few have one serving good food made with quality ingredients from local businesses. At Wilfie & Nell, the bread is from Blue Ribbon...
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[Photos: Tia Kim] Much has been written about Bon Chon, the first Korean fried chicken chain in the states that made Americans put down their KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) for a different KFC (Korean Fried Chicken). However, two of...
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"Perhaps there's a reason banh mi was spelled wrong." [Photos: Tia Kim] It seems the Banh Mi craze has finally reached Terroir, the tiny wine bar in the East Village that Ed reviewed early last year. This weekend, I was...
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