Generous Helpings of Comfort at Miss Saigon
Each portion of comforting Vietnamese fare at Miss Saigon is enough for two!
Read MoreA Side of Friendliness (and more!) with Your Falafel
Falafel that holds its own at pandemic-friendly prices
Read MoreNo Acrobatics Required for Mastering the Summer Roll
Vietnamese summer rolls are in my pantheon of “most refreshing snacks” to eat in this summer’s suffocating heat. Yet, summer rolls have always seemed the product of a magic act.
Read MoreThe Real French Deal Redux: Happy Hour at Cafe du Soleil
Where can you get a glass terrine full of duck rillettes—enough pour deux—for only $6.00? At Cafe du Soleil’s Happy Hour. I wrote about this bistro bar in 2017, and it continues to become ever more popular.
Read MoreSnack Sightings: Little Somethings (and One Big Nothing)
A round up of eight under $10 snack sightings in Manhattan and Brooklyn--from Apulian Panzerotti bites to salted buttermilk biscuits, yet another cheese puff and a Korean pancake that inspired great hope, and then despair.
Read MoreDate Night…with Myself and a Slice from Mama’s Too
This past Friday I’d had a productive writing session at the green table, swam forty laps at my health club, and I felt I deserved to treat myself to a take-in dinner for a date night with myself. I decided on Mama's Too the new Sicilian pizza spot everyone on the upper Upper West Side (above 96th st.) has been raving about.
Read MoreOh My My My My Pie: Pizza with Pizzaz
Still without gas in our apartment, the pizza stone is cold as, well, stone, in the disused oven, and pizza has become something I crave. Lucky me! I happened upon My Pie Pizzeria Romana , and this almost nondescript pizza-slice sized space turns out the most authentic Roman pizza I've had in New York City.
Read MoreMezze and Mingling
Before we shared Bodrum's artichoke pizza, layered generously with thin artichoke slices, and the small, refreshing shepherd’s salad ($8.50), Miss Mingle and I chose a sweet and savory b’stila djej ($7.50). Confectioners sugar dusts three plump triangular pillows of phyllo dough, but you bite in to find a unique, addicting concoction of chopped chicken, almonds, herbs and cinnamon. Truly the most interesting mezze on the menu, which includes favorites like babaganoush, sigara borek, labne and Turkish patlican.
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