I almost laughed my ass off before I managed to get through the door at the New York Estonian House, a members-only social club in Midtown. I had called earlier in the day, and the friendly club manager agreed to let us sample the club’s Estonian cuisine. As we approached the club, the bartender and […]
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I really like eating international church and mosque food. I ate an amazing meal last week at an incredibly friendly Norwegian church, and I enjoyed one of the best meals of my life in a parking lot behind an Indonesian mosque in Astoria. So when I found out that there was a Lithuanian festival in […] Read More >> |
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Two things I thought I knew when I first moved to New York two years ago: New Yorkers are mean, and picked herring is gross. Clearly, I’m not terribly smart, or at least not quite open-minded enough. Based pretty much on internet rumors, I decided to check out the Norwegian Seaman’s Church in Midtown East, […] Read More >> |
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I’m pretty clumsy, so I’m really not a fan of fine china, crystal glassware, or fancy silverware. I’m also half-Greek: when we’re really happy about something, we smash plates and glasses on the floor. So if you pull my food out of a Tupperware and stick it on a paper plate, I’m pretty stoked. If […] Read More >> |
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You really only need to know two things about Le Soleil Restaurant in the gentrified neighborhood formerly known as Hell’s Kitchen: 1) Wyclef Jean is supposedly a regular customer, and 2) they specialize in fried pork. Fried pork and Wyclef? What could possibly go wrong? Nothing, really, unless you count the (thoroughly non-Wyclefian) music—we heard […] Read More >> |
