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Bin 71: New York, NY
Bin 71 237 Columbus Avenue (at 71st Street), New York, NY 10023 212-362-5466 Tucked among the thriving shops and restaurants on busy Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan is a cozy
Read More »Hipster Thanksgiving
Hipster Stuffing Plane tickets are expensive. I can eat, drink, watch football and get fatter on my own, without losing several hundred dollars. It would be great to celebrate another pseudo-mythical holiday with family,
Read More »White Bean and Pesto Soup
White Bean and Pesto Soup I once worked for a restaurant and catering company that specialized in soups- we presented ourselves as “home cooking, restaurant style” and were pretty good at it. While the
Read More »Bump & Grind: Denver, CO
Bump & Grind 439 E 17th Ave., Denver, CO (303) 861-4841 Imagine walking into a restaurant where Barbie dolls in boxes line the walls – sometimes just their heads bobbing from above a table.
Read More »Wong’s King Seafood: Portland, OR
Wong’s King Seafood 8733 SE Division St., Portland, OR (503) 788-8883 A few years ago, I had a lot of trouble with my muscles. I had twitches, knots and some major aching, but of
Read More »Three Bean Turkey Chili
Three Bean Turkey Chili One rainy afternoon I was watching The West Wing and Martin Sheen was cooking up some chili. At one point he says to his daughter that chili is not chili
Read More »Hopvine Pub: Seattle, WA
Hopvine Pub 507 15th Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98122 (206) 328-3120 On a drizzly Wednesday night, I’d picked the girlfriend up from her Downtown workplace and headed east to Capitol Hill, looking to grab
Read More »The Farmer’s Diner: Quechee, VT
The Farmer’s Diner, Chef Tod Murphy Quechee Gorge Village 5573 Woodstock Road (Route 4)Quechee, VT 802.295.4600 Riding on the trendy but virtuous back of the green lifestyle phenomenon, The Farmer’s Diner in Quechee, Vermont,
Read More »Five Leaves: Cafe, Bar, Oysters: Brooklyn, NY
Five Leaves, Cafe, Bar Oysters 18 Bedford Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 718-383-5345 fiveleavesny.com The hype about this new, much needed, Greenpoint cafe was greater than its size, but right on the mark with respect
Read More »Marinara Sauce and Horseballs
Marinara Sauce and Horseballs Growing up in post-industrial Upstate New York, I can definitively say that the region doesn’t offer much – with the exception of delicious authentic food. The Utica area in Central
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