Voula’s Offshore Cafe – What to Eat in Seattle
658 NE Northlake Way Seattle, WA 98105 Voula’s is just about as directly opposite The Fat Hen as you can get within the confines of deliciousness. For starters, it was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins And Dives. High falutin this is not. (And good damn riddance.) Amid spartan surroundings, Voula’s cuts-to-the-chase, serving up big portions of […]
The Fat Hen – What to Eat in Seattle
1418 NW 70th St Seattle, WA 98117 Believe-it-or-not, not every restaurant we visited made it into the “where to eat” section of this blog. We tried several brunch joints, and in the end are including only two, which offer a good “spread”, one representing excellence in “greasy spoon” diner food (it’s not actually greasy), […]
Hye Ky Mi Gia – Cheap Eats in Seattle
1207 S Jackson St Seattle, WA 98144 Anyone with a finely-honed taste for Asian food respects the mini mall. To some, the concrete jungle of LA’s koreatown, bespotted as it is by nail salons, massage parlors, cram schools, and travel agencies, is a thing of beauty. Of course we’re writing not about LA, but about […]
Shabu Shabu 70 – The Best Restaurants in NYC
Shabu Shabu 70 is named for East 70th street, where it sits, but it might just as well have been named after the ’70s, because that’s how it feels when you walk in the door. The walls are painted in an off-white so off it’s almost lime green, and it’s the type of paint […]
Nha Trang One – The Best Restaurants in NYC
87 Baxter St, New York, NY In the US, at least, Vietnamese restaurants are judged by their pho, just as Thai restaurants, for better or worse, are judged by their…don’t make me say it… Photo Credit How large a factor should authenticity be? If a restaurant conjures something delicious, how much should we care […]
Corner Bistro – The Best Restaurants in NYC
Like many New Yorkers, I have a long and warm association with Corner Bistro. My “first time” was in March of 2001, when I was staying in the West Village with a family friend, visiting for an audition. (A story I know half of New Yorkers my age share in common;) Tired from the […]
Clinton Street Baking Company – The Best Restaurants in NYC
You can thank Bobby Flay for the lines. At least partially. In 2009 Flay challenged the good proprietors of Clinton Street Baking Company to a pancake match on his ridiculous/wonderful show Throwdown, and a legend was born. 35 minutes of continuous high-definition blueberry pancake porn must deaden the reasoning centers in the brain. Why […]
Aburiya Kinnosuke – the Best Restaurants in NYC
Photo by Maarten Heerlien 213 E 45th St New York, NY 10017 There’s a category of Japanese restaurant where you’ll see an elaborate open charcoal fire in the center of the room, and various configurations of meat, shellfish, and vegetables are run through with skewers or placed on spits and arranged like funeral spectators, at […]
Xi An Famous Foods (西安名吃) – The Best Restaurants in NYC
Photo by Gary Stevens 81 St Marks Pl New York, NY 10003 Xi An Famous Foods, named for the city in western China, had humble beginnings in two basement food courts in Flushing. No more. The Famous Foods are taking the City by storm, with locations in Midtown Manhattan, the East Village, Williamsburg, and a […]
Basta Pasta – the Best Restaurants in NYC
37 W 17th St (between Avenue Of The Americas & 5th Ave) New York, NY 10011 Basta Pasta is far from a traditional Italian Restaurant. NYC has those in spades, to be sure, but Basta Pasta is neither old-school-family-run nor new-cuisine Italian. It’s actually Japanese, founded in 1985 and inspired by the open-kitchen design […]
