By popular demand, here's a list of my top ten pizza slices in NYC: 1) DiFara (you all know where it is) 2) Adrienne's (Old Stone St., Wall Street) 3) Patsy's (117th and First Avenue) 4) Joe and Pat's (Staten... More

In theory, the turkey club sandwich is a great idea. Turkey, bacon, lettuce, tomato, mayo, and toast; what's not to like? Yet every element of a club sandwich, except perhaps the mayo, is fraught with peril. Dry turkey or turkey... More

New York Magazine has just published its 101 Best Cheap Eats in NYC. Like NY Mag's Top 101 restaurants, it is a brilliant marketing move by Adam Moss & Co. Full disclosure: I know and like NY Mag cheap eats... More

Wednesday's New York Post had this really cool Latin Hot Dog round-up in their Tempo section. The piece was uncredited, but the entire section was compiled by Juana Guichardo, Mercedes Sanchez and Eneida Del Valle. Their five favorites: Mazorca: 83-17... More

When it's July 4th weekend and it's this hot, a man's thoughts turn to ice cream. With the temperature and humidity levels ridiculously high this weekend, I am pleased to report that the Otto ice cream cart is back at... More

A reader has asked me for my list of top five barbecue joints in NYC. What are yours? This is one everyone has an opinion on. The more pertinent question is whether there are even five barbecue joints in NY... More

Wandering home from the office yesterday trying to recover my eating equilibrium after 48 hours of dawn to dusk barbecue eating at the BABBP, I decided to flush my system with an order of six ($4.95) pork and chive dumplings... More

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... More

Three months in the slurping, my chicken soup piece came out Wednesday in the NYTimes. For those of you who don't read the Times, I am going to list my ten favorite chicken soups (I sampled a hundred) here, along... More

Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone chocolate lovers can return to their posts without the rest of the country getting in their way. Now that I'm eating and living vicariously through my blog (I'm down 25 pounds, in... More