If you’ve wondering where exactly I’ve been over the past few weeks, the answer isn’t “Chicago” – all of these Chicago meals (the last of which will be on Serious Eats national in the near future) took place at the end of July. For the past few weeks, the answer has actually been, “chained to [...]
There’s an entire world of restaurants within the borders of New York City. Frankly, I find it hard to give a shit about the newest opening, ambitious concept, or chef’s achievement when virtually the entire world also exists within the borders of New York City. It exists in the form of a bowl of Xi’an [...]
I grew up in a doughnut town. As soon as I was capable of grasping a tiger tail, I relished trips to our local doughnut shop. Not just because the mixed aroma of weak coffee, fried dough and sugar was the next best thing to freshly baked chocolate chip cookies for a kid, but also [...]
The following story, an adaption of a post on this blog, was read on stage at Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s “Greatest Three-Minute Food Stories Ever” on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. I am incapable of drinking butt. I didn’t always know this about myself. One day I walked into Papaya King with a friend. I ordered two [...]
My latest stories for Serious Eats cover New York’s only sanctioned barbecue contest and a variety of traditional rib preparations from throughout the world: Grillin’ on the Bay in Brooklyn: Where Barbecue Gets Loose The Serious Eats Guide to Ribs of the World
Location is fundamental to business. Even in a world bombarded by social media business plans, people still get up in the morning and walk down the street. And some people still walk home from the train at two in the morning, wondering if a nightcap at the corner pub is a good idea and wishing [...]
Editor’s Note: Since the publication of this story, Kenny’s Trattoria has closed its doors. Dine in Brooklyn, this season’s restaurant week in the borough of Biggie, is here – but I’m not too excited. It’s not the event itself but the basic practice of “restaurant week” that annoys me. Beyond being mazes of dubious value [...]
This is the best god damned muffin I’ve ever eaten. I didn’t know it was acceptable to use those words until my first visit to Blue Sky Bakery, a modest hallway of a bake shop just a few steps from where I lay my head in Park Slope. A muffin and coffee from Blue Sky [...]
This isn’t just a beautiful pizza crust. It’s a beautiful pitza crust. Baked in a standard industrial pizza oven at the front of Bedouin Tent, it’s a warm expression of mixed influences at this Jordanian-owned, pan-Arabic seasoned, New-York cultured restaurant between Boerum Hill and Downtown Brooklyn. Like Moustache Pitza, its cousin in Manhattan, Bedouin Tent [...]
When I was seventeen, two future conditions distinctly outweighed the prospect of a college degree: 1. Someday, I would have a kick-ass girlfriend. 2. Someday, I would eat the hamburgers that Wesley Willis sang about in “I’m Sorry That I Got Fat.” Ten years later, these disparate teenage dreams found each other at the bottom [...]
