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We were walking around the neighborhood tonight after dinner at Shake Shack and noticed yet another closure. (Haven't there been enough...

The Wednesday custard of the month for January is mud pie. According to the Shake Shack folks, mud pie is vanilla custard with fudge sauce,...

Once the weather starts getting colder, the hot soup carts start appearing all over midtown. They all look fairly similar with their big re...

A new restaurant popped up on 9th avenue recently called Turco. It opened up in the old Golden Chicken and Ribs spot that closed about a mon...

Along with my mozzarella avocado tomato sandwich from Hale and Hearty today, I also tried a new soup (new to me, anyway) - Rhode Island ...

Two years ago today, it was our last day on vacation in Los Angeles and we had a late night flight back home. After checking out of the hot...

The January sandwich of the month at Hale and Hearty is the mozzarella, avocado and tomato sandwich. It consists of fresh mozzarella, avoca...

Last week we had a training session over lunch. The place that catered the lunch had done some of our other lunches before, and I thought t...

I have written about a lot of sandwiches on here but there is one sandwich that I probably eat more regularly than any other combination. ...

Note: We wrote most of this before our year-end posts, so some of this might repeat what we said there about loucoumades. After our fillin...

The first thing we ate in 2012 (yes, it's a week later, but better late than never) was the steamed fresh roll from Pure Thai Cookhouse....

I feel like more restaurants than usual closed (or announced imminent closures) at the end of this year. That might not be true, but, if it...

Last January, we posted about our "cookbook project" where we would attempt to make a new recipe from one of our many cookbooks at...

Happy New Year! The January custard calendar is up. As we do every month, here are some thoughts. Monday - cinnamon cream cheese - my fir...

2011 was a hard year to peg for "top food memories" for me. Sadly we didn't do anything overly remarkable outside of our trip ...

Another year in the books, another year of good eats. It's always hard to narrow down all the good food we had over the past year to 10...

At some point I finally decided to try something other than the noodles at IGK. Every day I kept seeing this "weekly special" for...

On our first morning in Naxos, we went down to the dining room in the lobby of our hotel, the Nissaki Beach Hotel, and saw a breakfast area ...

The last work lunch of the year felt like such a big decision. After eating at so many good places over the past year, what place should ge...