NYC Restaurant Find: Wallflower
Wallflower is a West Village neighbourhood restaurant of the slightly more refined variety. By neighbourhood restaurant I mean it’s unpretentious but there’s still a certain air of luxury here, which probably rubbed off on its co-owner Xavier Herit while he clocked seven years as head bartender at Daniel, the NYC fine dining institution. As you […]
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NYC Hotspot Find: Brooklyn Flea at Fort Greene
According to”¦ me, spring has not sprung until the Saturday Brooklyn Flea arrives in Fort Greene. A favourite good weather pastime for many stylish New Yorkers is spending the day in a repurposed parking lot browsing unique crafts and collectibles made by local artisans as well as mid-century furniture gems, vintage records and denims and […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Cata
Cata is a buzzing, informal restaurant on the Lower East Side that boasts a vast menu of gin & tonics to match their extensive menu of imaginative tapas. It’s refreshing to see a Spanish restaurant that goes beyond patatas bravas and offers something playful and creative like the quail eggs benedict with chorizo and hash […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Mission Cantina
Mission Cantina is a cheap, cheerful restaurant you need to check out for reasons that go beyond the food. Perfect for a fun pre-club night meal, what you get here is plenty of opportunities to spot cool kids and celebrity chefs in their natural habitats. The loud, bumpin’ tunes and that special brand of energy […]
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Restaurant Find: Navy NYC
I have no doubt that Navy NYC is going to make it onto a slew of best new restaurant lists for 2014. This small and delightfully quirky restaurant serves up excellent seafood cooked with a lightness of touch and a heavy focus on freshness and vegetables. Just about every dish on the menu is eye […]
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Restaurant Find: Brushstroke NYC
Brushstroke is one of those restaurants you should take someone who you plan to seriously impress. The fact that Brushstroke is a collaboration between NYC fine dining legend David Bouley and Yoshiki Tsuji, who heads the Tsuji Culinary Institute in Japan will impress even before you sit down. Masters of each Japanese cooking technique are […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Flinders Lane
It took dinner at Flinders Lane to realise how much I’ve missed the food back home in Australia. If you’re lucky enough to have travelled there, you’ll know modern Australian cuisine as a beautiful multicultural collision that takes the best from South East Asia, Greece, Italy and even India with British fare at its core. […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Joseph Leonard
JOSEPH LEONARD, WEST VILLAGE Brunch at Joseph Leonard can be likened to attending your cool stylist friend’s brunch party. You feel slightly jealous as you enter into her tiny but bright West Village apartment filled with all the curious antiques she’s discovered on her travels. You can’t help but notice how she seems to have […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Hi-Collar
HI-COLLAR, EAST VILLAGE I keep saying “this is my new favourite restaurant” but this time it really is, promise. Hi-Collar is one of those no-details-spared Japanese hotspots. It’s a Parisian-inspired cafe by day and restaurant/sake bar by night. The place literally transforms as soon as the barman stealthily slides the wall-to-wall cabinet door to reveal […]
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NYC Restaurant Find: Saxon + Parole
SAXON + PAROLE, NOHO Saxon + Parole is a solid NoHo restaurant where you can expect an excellent meal with a memorable bottle of wine. You’ll even enjoy all of it in the restaurant’s lively atmosphere with its sophisticated NoHo crowd. Meat-lovers’ ears will prick up when they hear the specials because there’s bound to […]
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