Entries tagged with 'Raising the Bar'
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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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[Photos: Tia Kim] The Bar Room at The Modern is not somewhere I would normally go apart from special occasions. But this weekend, I was having quality mother-daughter time and I couldn't take my mom to just any ratty...
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"Good food at a bar isn't easy to come by, but good food at a sports bar is near miraculous." [Photos: Tia Kim] Ever since Joe Torre stopped managing the Yankees in '07, I have to admit, much like the...
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[Photographs: Tia Kim] Bibimbap (a spicy Korean mixed rice dish, also spelled bibimbop) isn't bar food, here or in Korea, but when you combine bibimbap and a sake bar, you get Bibim-Bar, a tiny bar/restaurant specializing in bibimbap and...
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"The result is scrumptious porcine deliciousness." [Photo: Tia Kim] One rainy night this week, tired, jet-lagged, and without much of an appetite, I stumbled into Bar Blanc Bistro in the West Village looking for a few flavorful bites to go...
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"I leave my napkin smudged with cuttlefish kisses, but my plate is always returned spotlessly clean." Recently, I've been frequenting Division Street in Chinatown quite often; not for Chinese food, but for Italian. Tucked away on a a quiet street,...
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"The food at One and One isn't healthy or light, but it's hearty, comforting, and perfect after throwing a few beers down the hatch." [Photographs: Tia Kim] One and One is an Irish-style pub in the East Village bordering the...
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