Zagat released an expanded (and renamed) New York City Food Lover’s Guide this week. As the New York Daily News reports, the pocket-sized helper includes a bigger "Best Buys" section devoted to food shopping since 60-percent of those surveyed said...
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Watching Per Se from the French Laundry's kitchen in California. Photograph from pellis on Flickr Per Se may be feeling a 10 percent drop in reservations, as the New York Times reports, but you wouldn't know it by the...
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Photograph from bygenejackson on Flickr The New York Times City Room blog reports that two Costco locations—the one in Astoria, Queens and the other in Sunset Park, Brooklyn—will start accepting food stamps on a trial basis next month. "If...
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It's a little weird to buy cheese on sale without triple-checking the expiration date, but the top-quality cheese cases at Balducci's have a 40 percent off sign, preparing for the specialty market's closing April 26. "Other groceries around the store...
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From the New York Daily News: Jeffrey Ruhalter, owner of Jeffrey's Meat Market in the Essex Street Market, will host recession dinners for $10, which includes a meal of: New York strip steak, grilled vegetables, gourmet cheese, and cupcakes. People...
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From Eater: "D is for Dunkin Donuts, Feldshuht just like Tovah...E is for Theee Coffee Chamber, five e's now on the street...F is for FR.OG, poorly punctuated conceit...G is for La Goulou, a glutton who died of starvation"...
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Interior of Eighty-One from 81nyc.com It's not too late to score one of the 150 free anniversary dinners Ed Brown is offering at Eighty-One for this Friday. (Just email free@81nyc.com ASAP today; tomorrow they will pick people, who can...
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Now more than ever, it's hard to justify $5 on a cup of green tea fro-yo that will end in stomach growls five minutes later. MIdtown Lunch reports that Yorganic in the Crystal Pavillion food court on Third Avenue just...
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Despite a supposed dip in chicken production nationwide, New York didn't seem to be in trouble on Super Bowl Sunday. Plenty of chicken wings were consumed; plenty of red-orange fingernails to prove it. Uh, 32,000 pounds of wings alone from Atomic Wings?!
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In the spirit of recessions, and not going hungry during them, we started a Friday morning feature on Serious Eats New York spotlighting recipes from the city's beloved (and oftentimes pricey) restaurants, like this "Eating in with Mario Batali: Spaghetti...
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