Who would have thought you can eat for $1 in this city? When I started my hunt, I was shocked at how many tasty treats were only a buck. But like shopping at a 99-cent store, these foods are...
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To clarify, there is a french fry salad ($14) on the dinner menu at Market Table, as pointed out by Food & Wine's Kate Krader. But it's really not that crazy. The composition: salad greens, steak tartare, and french fries....
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Mediocrity creeps upon all human activity, but it is astonishing how often something simple to do in a good way, like making French Fries, is performed with what seems a deliberate mediocrity in venues that pass themselves off to the...
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Shake Shack french fries. Photograph by Robyn Lee Last Friday AHT founder Adam Kuban couldn't take it any more. He heard me complaining about the Shake Shack's frozen French fries once too often. "Ed," he said with a wry...
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Taim's french fries. Photograph by Kathy YL Chan Danyelle Freeman, aka Restaurant Girl, just posted her list of the best french fries in New York. It is flawed to say the least. J. G. Melon's cottage fries are mediocre...
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If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me who makes the best french fries in New York, I'd be a rich man. Well, maybe I wouldn't be a rich man, but I'd have enough money to...
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I like a lot of the food served at the restaurants at the Time Warner Center, but sometimes the collective pretentions of the restaurants there, Per Se, Masa, Bouchon Bakery, Porter House, get to me. How down to earth...
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It's almost a cosmic question. Blue Smoke is owned and run by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group. I know the general manager there, Mark Maynard Parisi, and the chef, Kenny Callahan. These guys all know good food and how...
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