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Restaurant Week totally bites!
In January, Cindy Zhou found herself dining in the sophisticated surroundings of Park Avenue Winter, the posh Upper East Side restaurant. It was Restaurant Week, and Zhou, the 33-year-old art...
More theaters for eaters
It's illegal to bring booze into a movie theater in NYC — but there are no laws prohibiting the screening of a movie inside a bar or restaurant. Here’s where...
From park to plate
It doesn’t get any more local than foraging for wild edibles in a city park. But what do you do with all the exotic pokeweed, sarsaparilla leaves and black locust...
Catsimatidis and her fiancé share passions for politics and cooking
She's the 21-year-old daughter of immigrant supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis and an NYU student with a penchant for bold fashions. He’s the unassuming 32-year-old grandson of Richard Nixon and a...
7 ways to play on Memorial Day
Summer is finally here, which means one thing: Martha Stewart has to have a hot dog on a bun with relish, ketchup and mustard. But not just any frank will...
Urban Jungles!
THE CLUBBY ROOFTOP Gansevoort Park Rooftop, 420 Park Ave. South; 646-380-5391; for table reservations, call 212-929-0067 Pretty young things and the big spenders who love them can ascend 18 stories...
Top chefs dish
The nation’s hottest chefs will be walking the red carpet at Lincoln Center tomorrow evening for the annual James Beard Foundation Awards, also known as the “Oscars of the Food...
Give my regards to Mrs. Boyardee!
Anna Boiardi is at work in the professional-grade kitchen in her TriBeCa loft as her friends, in the living room, sip wine and enjoy the smells of garlic and meat...
Is Gwyneth the new Martha Stewart ?
Gwyneth Paltrow is accomplished at many things: She’s an Oscar-winning actress and a TV sensation. She’s the wife of a rock star and a blossoming singer herself, with performances at...
Crazy about Catalonia
CONSIDER the oyster leaf: It’s a plant that tastes astonishingly like a briny oyster. It is a curious thing — a culinary trickster that manages to both surprise and satisfy....
This is Hell's Kitchen?
On a recent Saturday evening, a small army of servers outfitted in charcoal vests and apple-green ties ferried little plates of amuse-bouche to an elegant, smartly dressed clientele. The scene...
They're not gonna take it!
On a rainy, wind-swept day earlier this month, 61-year-old theater professor Marna Lawrence emerged from her rent-stabilized apartment on Cleveland Place armed with a stack of fliers. Despite the inclement...
Cocktail queens
Lynnette Marrero is leaning against a wooden bar, wearing a silk blouse and holding a pink cocktail. But she isn’t just another gal getting her Saturday night mojo on. First...
The odd couple
Oysters and Chablis. Lamb and Bordeaux. Fried pickle chips and sparkling rosé? Yup, you read that right. The seemingly oddball wine-and-food pairing is just one of many you’ll find on...
Gotham gastronomy
You don’t have to spend 30 hours in the kitchen to sample the new wave of scientific cooking chic. Here are a few classics of the genre being served locally....
Should you trust your server?
Forty-three-year-old waiter B.W. was recently reciting the specials at a trendy new Manhattan restaurant backed by a celebrity chef, something he’s done a million times during his 17 years of...
Here's how to put a feed bag on
Forget about plunking down thousands of dollars and putting your name on a yearlong waiting list -- to score New York's latest "it" bag, you're encouraged to eat the cow...
Great walk of China
Chinese New Year is next week, and to celebrate the Year of the Rabbit, local restaurateur and outspoken food blogger Eddie Huang showed us his favorite Chinatown spots. Huang, who...
Little Italy is back!
Last Thursday night at about 11p.m., a bouncer stood sentry outside an unmarked red door amid a sea of Italian flags and gaudy ornate storefronts, shooing away the groups of...
Sibling revelry
It's a Saturday afternoon, two weeks before Christmas, and the Plaza Hotel is jammed. Tourists in spandex and sneakers are lining up by the busload in the hotel’s lower-level shopping...