At a glance, one might assume that Salute Kosher Restaurant (sometimes listed online as “Salut 2000” or “Restaurant Salute”) is just another Uzbek-Bukharian place, much like Cherburechnaya or Tandoori or Aladdin. The word “Uzbek” appears twice on the menu, and the restaurant was featured in a 2006 New York Times article, which specifically mentioned […]
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You might have noticed that I really like food. You might also have noticed that I very rarely eat home-cooked meals. For those of you who don’t live in Manhattan, here’s some exciting news: this island is effing expensive. So we rented a slightly flawed apartment to save money: there’s no direct sunlight and […] Read More >> |
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Urbanspoon lists 1836 Italian restaurants in NYC. If you search for NYC Italian restaurants on yelp, you’ll find 2659 options. And if you google the term “NYC Italian restaurants”, you’ll get 50,200,000 results. So yeah, there are somewhere between 1836 and 50,200,000 Italian restaurants in NYC. And I passed up all of them for […] Read More >> |
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And then, there was cow. If you walk into La Esquina Criolla and order a “parillada completa” (rough translation: complete grilled Argentine cow), you’ll receive cow–specifically, a salty, fennel-y beef sausage–as an appetizer. That’s the grill man’s version of a culinary warning shot. Ten minutes after the beef-sausage warning shot, the grill man completely […] Read More >> |
