Manhattan Living

T Poutine: Disco Fries in New York City!

Is this the year that Poutine in New York City finally makes it onto our regular late-night snack list? New Yorkers have so far resisted this classic French-Canadian comfort food (the last place that heavily hyped their Poutine, the Inn LW12, closed within six months or so), but Lower East Side newcomer T Poutine clearly […]


Hill Country BBQ, NYC

It wasn’t that long ago that the number of good, authentic barbecue restaurants in New York City was pretty much zero. Today it’s a different story, after a smoked, spicy, saucy tsunami of first-rate BBQ restaurants flooded the town these past few years, led by the likes of Daisy Mae’s in Hell’s Kitchen, R.U.B. on […]


Michael Psilakis’s Gus & Gabriel Restaurant: An UWS Gastropub

  Michael Psilakis’s Gus and Gabriel boasts a pretty impressive pedigree for a menu that features Tater Tots, Glazed Riblets, and Chili Dogs.  Housed, rather handsomely, in Psilakis’s former Kefi space, the Upper West Side restaurant / “gastropub” Gus and Gabriel is the fourth in Michael Psilakis rapidly expanding mini-empire, which includes his flagship Anthos, […]


Keste Pizza & Vino: A New York Pizzeria & Restaurant

New York pizza restaurants are plentiful, but wonder why there’s ALWAYS a line outside of Keste Pizza, NYC? Does everyone know that chef Robert Caporuscio has such passion for his craft that he’s the American-chapter president of the Associazone Pizzaiuoli Napoletana, the Naples-based organization that certifies pizza-makers? Is it because Caporuscio imported master artisans from […]


The New York City Ice Cream Cart at Cafe Cluny

New York ice cream vending carts are one of our favorite food trends this summer. High- (or middle-) end chefs are setting up artisanal ice cream carts outside their restaurants. And while there have been decidedly mixed results in these sweet treats endeavors–Cookshop’s ice cream cart, for example, is something of a disaster–pastry chef Jacqueline […]


Deitch Soho art galleries: Black Acid Co-op and Dash Snow Memorial

 Deitch Gallery NYC’s Explosive Exhibits Now on Show   A visit to the two Deitch Soho art galleries, located around the corner from each other on Grand and Wooster Street, is always an excellent idea, either as a destination to a Soho art gallery in itself, or as a way to break up an afternoon […]


East Village Restaurants’ Permanent Brunch for Breakfast Lovers

New York City brunch served 24/7 is a new concept among East Village restaurants.  Your degree of enthusiasm for the brand new East village restaurant Permanent Brunch can probably best be gauged by your excitement over these two words: bacon bar. Us? We couldn’t wait to sidle on up and choose from a half dozen […]


DBGB Kitchen & Bar: Daniel Boulud’s Bowery hotspot

The DBGB Kitchen & Bar is Packed with Partiers Daniel Boulud, it seems, can do no wrong. DBGB Kitchen and Bar, which opened about a month ago, is the celebrated chef’s fifth New York City restaurant, and it is a loud, crashing, resounding success. DBGB is Daniel Boulud’s first downtown Manhattan restaurant appearance.  The crowds […]


Union Square Cambodian Restaurant, Num Pang

  Num Pang is one of several Union Square restaurants, but here, the main draw is sandwiches! One of the many, many great things about New York City? Not only is the town big enough, diverse enough, adventurous enough to support a food place that sells, almost exclusively, Cambodian sandwiches, but there’s also often a […]


Bar Artisanal in New York

  It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the best thing we ate the other night at Bar Artisanal was the grilled cheese sandwich. After all, Chef Terrence Brennan knows more than a thing or two about cheese, as he shows every night at his much-loved, much-fancier flagship French restaurant Artisanal, on Park […]