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Today (well, before midnight) was Australia Day, and Pie Face, the new Australian pie shop that opened this week, gave out free mini pies (o...

The next stop on my block by block adventure was Cafe Manhattan. This is one of those "generic deli" types which has sandwiches, ...

Ever since I started working in midtown, I have always wondered why there weren't more Thai places here. Considering how many Thai rest...

The Shack Shack custard flavor that most intrigued us this month was cinnamon cream cheese. Since it's the Monday custard, we had two ...

On our last visit to Costco, we saw a bag of chips we had never seen before. It was called Eat Your Vegetables and made by Snikiddy (like ...

For the January cookbook project dinner, I chose two recipes out of the Williams-Sonoma eat well cookbook : farro salad with artichoke heart...

Lesson of the day: If you're going to cook with an ingredient you've never used before (and never looked for at the grocery store b...

The Friday custard this month at Shake Shack is the red velvet custard. It's a vanilla custard with actual red velvet cake mixed in. M...

Today was another day of wandering around wondering what to do for lunch (this lack of inspiration is really troubling to me). I came acros...

Crave Sandwiches, in a space formerly occupied by a map store, opened last week. Today was another "I have no idea what I want for lun...

Gianduja, a combination of hazelnut and sweet chocolate, was one of our favorite Shake Shack custards from last year. We liked it so much t...

I was really out of it today, and couldn't even muster enough energy to think about what to do for lunch. The easiest thing to do was t...

Potbelly is a Chicago-based sandwich chain that has recently found its way to New York. M has written about them before and also about her...

Now that Carrabba's, our Sunday go-to place when we visited my parents in Staten Island, is closed , we are trying out some other places...

Opening day for the new Steak 'n Shake Signature in Manhattan was my very first time having Steak 'n Shake. Even though I spent a f...

Tonight we found ourselves in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with M's parents and we decided to try Bayridge Sushi, recommended to us by a few peop...

Today was opening day for the new Steak 'n Shake Signature in Manhattan. To celebrate, they offered free burgers for a year to the fir...

After a relaxing time in Halki where we had loucomades and citron , we continued along the winding road to the next town, Filoti. It was a...

The town of Halki in Naxos wasn't just home to delicious loucoumades . It was also the home to the Citron (Kitron) distillery museum. T...