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06/04/12

How to Be a Victim of Restaurant Service Bias, Step Up with Summer Wine Classes, and Hello, Heat! It’s Time to Cool Down with Sashimi and Nigori at Sushi Mike’s

Here’s something that actually happened to me at a well-known Manhattan restaurant—oh, for the sake of argument, let’s call it Dos Caminos. It was New Year’s Day and our party of four had made merry the night before. There was Champagne, maybe some shots. Who knows? That’s all I remember. Read More

Posted at 12:31 PM | Permalink

05/29/12

The Cookery Debuts Its DoughNation Pizza Truck, Birdsall House Branches Out, More Restaurant Openings, and Best in the Bash: X20’s Cowboy Burger

To every great movement, there is a backlash—because, once you have enabled the excesses of Rush, you gotta have The Clash. It’s a correction, a revision, a move toward a more perfect balance. And, for exactly this reason, I love the recent trend of food trucks. In a restaurant world of neuro-gastronomy and $20 cocktails, food trucks offer a reformist snap to reality. In a truck, there’s no room for lighting designers. No linens. No diva waiters. Just food, often excellent, sold directly from cook to diner. Read More

Posted at 10:12 AM | Permalink

05/21/12

Memorial Day Is Coming (So Grab a Party Pack at Bartaco; Get Your Schnitzel On at X2O; and the Single Instance Where Belly Is Sexy

Right now, I’m looking at my vast collection of food magazines, which burden my kitchen bookshelves and occasionally fall on my head when I try to extract one. You know what they’ll all be writing about between May 25 and September 3? They’ll all be filled with ideas for easy summertime entertaining. Read More

Posted at 11:30 AM | Permalink

05/14/12

Chef Shea Gallante to Open Italian Kitchen in Ardsley, HotDates (Free Empanadas and Beer), and Stop the Interwebs! Westchester Finally has First-Class Soup Dumplings!

HotFlash: Chef Shea Gallante to Debut Italian Kitchen in Ardsley We heard that Chef Shea Gallante was opening a restaurant in Ardsley, so we rang him up—on Monday, at home, which was a pretty dishraggy move. Everyone knows that chefs take Mondays off so that they can live like humans for 24 hours. Still, Gallante could not have been sweeter as he took my call while on marathon hold with the phone company. Turns out that Gallante’s experience of first-time sole ownership means that this rocket-hot young chef is spending his day off performing grunt tasks like pestering the phone company and making paint runs to the hardware store. “My wife picked out the color for the restaurant—she picked it by the code—but, when I got there, I realized that the color was called ‘semolina.’ That kinda stuck in my mind.” Gallante is coming off wild successes at Manhattan’s Cru and Ciano, where he was universally praised for his urbane, updated takes on rustic Italian food. Gallante’s Ardsley spot, Italian Kitchen, will debut in mid-May and will be located at 698 Saw Mill River Road in a long, narrow space that once held... Read More

Posted at 11:35 AM | Permalink

05/07/12

First Taste of Purdys’ Farmer and the Fish, Crabtree’s to Branch Out with a Second Kittle House and Check Out These Sexy Bivalves from Farmer and the Fish

Sacrilege! The owners of Farmer and the Fish, the new restaurant that went into the creaky old North Salem farmhouse house formerly known at John-Michael’s (and before that, as Purdy’s Homestead—and before that, yadda, yadda, all the way back to 1775), and stripped off the glass enclosure of the historic house’s 19th-century porch. The owning duo (Edward Taylor and Michael Kaphan) removed Revolution-era walls. They united the structure’s once-small rooms and opened up the base of its staircase. These folks dared to alter history. And guess what? It’s good! Read More

Posted at 11:46 AM | Permalink

	06/04/12 How to Be a Victim of Restaurant Service Bias, Step Up with Summer Wine Classes, and Hello, Heat! It’s Time to Cool Down with Sashimi and Nigori at Sushi Mike’s Here’s something that actually happened to me at a well-known Manhattan restaurant—oh, for the sake of argument, let’s call it Dos Caminos. It was New Year’s Day and our party of four had made merry the night before. There was Champagne, maybe some shots. Who knows? That’s all I remember. Read More Posted at 12:31 PM \| Permalink
	05/29/12 The Cookery Debuts Its DoughNation Pizza Truck, Birdsall House Branches Out, More Restaurant Openings, and Best in the Bash: X20’s Cowboy Burger To every great movement, there is a backlash—because, once you have enabled the excesses of Rush, you gotta have The Clash. It’s a correction, a revision, a move toward a more perfect balance. And, for exactly this reason, I love the recent trend of food trucks. In a restaurant world of neuro-gastronomy and $20 cocktails, food trucks offer a reformist snap to reality. In a truck, there’s no room for lighting designers. No linens. No diva waiters. Just food, often excellent, sold directly from cook to diner. Read More Posted at 10:12 AM \| Permalink
	05/21/12 Memorial Day Is Coming (So Grab a Party Pack at Bartaco; Get Your Schnitzel On at X2O; and the Single Instance Where Belly Is Sexy Right now, I’m looking at my vast collection of food magazines, which burden my kitchen bookshelves and occasionally fall on my head when I try to extract one. You know what they’ll all be writing about between May 25 and September 3? They’ll all be filled with ideas for easy summertime entertaining. Read More Posted at 11:30 AM \| Permalink
	05/14/12 Chef Shea Gallante to Open Italian Kitchen in Ardsley, HotDates (Free Empanadas and Beer), and Stop the Interwebs! Westchester Finally has First-Class Soup Dumplings! HotFlash: Chef Shea Gallante to Debut Italian Kitchen in Ardsley We heard that Chef Shea Gallante was opening a restaurant in Ardsley, so we rang him up—on Monday, at home, which was a pretty dishraggy move. Everyone knows that chefs take Mondays off so that they can live like humans for 24 hours. Still, Gallante could not have been sweeter as he took my call while on marathon hold with the phone company. Turns out that Gallante’s experience of first-time sole ownership means that this rocket-hot young chef is spending his day off performing grunt tasks like pestering the phone company and making paint runs to the hardware store. “My wife picked out the color for the restaurant—she picked it by the code—but, when I got there, I realized that the color was called ‘semolina.’ That kinda stuck in my mind.” Gallante is coming off wild successes at Manhattan’s Cru and Ciano, where he was universally praised for his urbane, updated takes on rustic Italian food. Gallante’s Ardsley spot, Italian Kitchen, will debut in mid-May and will be located at 698 Saw Mill River Road in a long, narrow space that once held... Read More Posted at 11:35 AM \| Permalink
	05/07/12 First Taste of Purdys’ Farmer and the Fish, Crabtree’s to Branch Out with a Second Kittle House and Check Out These Sexy Bivalves from Farmer and the Fish Sacrilege! The owners of Farmer and the Fish, the new restaurant that went into the creaky old North Salem farmhouse house formerly known at John-Michael’s (and before that, as Purdy’s Homestead—and before that, yadda, yadda, all the way back to 1775), and stripped off the glass enclosure of the historic house’s 19th-century porch. The owning duo (Edward Taylor and Michael Kaphan) removed Revolution-era walls. They united the structure’s once-small rooms and opened up the base of its staircase. These folks dared to alter history. And guess what? It’s good! Read More Posted at 11:46 AM \| Permalink

For Insatiable Westchester Diners

06/04/12

How to Be a Victim of Restaurant Service Bias, Step Up with Summer Wine Classes, and Hello, Heat! It’s Time to Cool Down with Sashimi and Nigori at Sushi Mike’s

05/29/12

The Cookery Debuts Its DoughNation Pizza Truck, Birdsall House Branches Out, More Restaurant Openings, and Best in the Bash: X20’s Cowboy Burger

05/21/12

Memorial Day Is Coming (So Grab a Party Pack at Bartaco; Get Your Schnitzel On at X2O; and the Single Instance Where Belly Is Sexy

05/14/12

Chef Shea Gallante to Open Italian Kitchen in Ardsley, HotDates (Free Empanadas and Beer), and Stop the Interwebs! Westchester Finally has First-Class Soup Dumplings!

05/07/12

First Taste of Purdys’ Farmer and the Fish, Crabtree’s to Branch Out with a Second Kittle House and Check Out These Sexy Bivalves from Farmer and the Fish

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