[Photographs: Chichi Wang] Sunday afternoon at the New York Culinary Experience passed in a flurry of fish. Masaharu Morimoto may have attended his sushi class with his arm in a cast, but he was flanked by his trusted crew...
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Previous BYOBs Dante's The Islands Afghan Kebab House Angelica Kitchen Sigiri Ivo & Lulu Gazala Place Tartine D-list sushi—unlike bad pizza, say, or a not-great chocolate chip cookie—simply has no reason to exist. Eating it is a terrifying experience,...
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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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Photographs by Allison Hemler Though I've never spent more than $20 a person at a sushi restaurant (let Ed Levine curse me down now), I've dreamed of saving even that small amount of money by making sushi at home...
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Fugu, it seemed to me, is
the culinary equivalent of the monster in a horror movie. It’s all about the suspense. As soon as you confront it head on and take your first bite you wonder,
that was it? And you return to your regularly scheduled (albeit outstanding) Japanese meal.
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Located on a quiet street in Chelsea, Rock-N-Sake doesn't look like an exciting spot to hit happy hour. Ah, but looks can be deceiving and despite the cheesy pop music and large nightclub reminiscent bar, lit up in neon...
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The day after Frank Bruni’s double-header review of Sushi Azabu (which our own Ed Levine wrote about) and Kanoyama, I began calling the latter on a daily basis. Not for a reservation though, I was after some of the...
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At lunchtime, Morimoto is a relaxed, comfortable contemporary Japanese restaurant serving big plates of reasonably priced food made with top quality ingredients.
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Ed continues his quest for the best reasonably priced sushi in New York at Azabu, hidden beneath the Greenwich Grill.
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Like all of you serious eaters out there, not only do I love food, I love reading about food. So it's not always easy to read reviews of restaurants way out of my price range; places that fall on the...
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