I live in the east 40s in Manhattan, and I’ve always pretty much assumed that NYC’s (expensive, whitewashed) Upper East Side is a barren wasteland when it comes to cheap, good ethnic food. I’m sure that the UES has more than its share of great old-school European places, but I thought that I’d be […]
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As I write this, I’m sitting at my kitchen table, nursing the worst case of indigestion I’ve had since I ate Liberian food a month or two ago. And that’s kinda weird, since I had what I thought was a very pleasant, tame meal at a little Dominican place in Harlem called La Nueva Flor […] Read More >> |
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One of my closest friends in NYC had a birthday earlier this week, and I invited her out to lunch as a (lameass) birthday gift. It wasn’t really the most altruistic gift, though–I insisted that we go out for the ethnic food of her choice, as long as she selected one of the 164 national […] Read More >> |
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As you might have guessed from a previous food blog post, I’m half Greek. (Insert joke here about how only the bottom half is Greek.) A friend of mine happens to be Persian, and he was kind enough to be our Persian food tour guide this week. He took us (by “us,” I mean […] Read More >> |
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I’m not one of those dorky guys who worships Quentin Tarantino, and I’ve never been a huge fan of the movie True Romance. But for some strange reason, there’s a scene in that movie that has always stuck in my head. Gary Oldman plays a mean ugly pimp who beats the living crap out of […] Read More >> |
