Restaurant

Don Antonio Pizza

March 15, 2012

As a big fan of Keste in Greenwich Village, I was pretty excited when I heard the man behind it – Roberto Caporuscio – was part of a new pizza place in my neighborhood, Hell’s Kitchen.  It’s called Don Antonio by Starita.  Antonio Starita is a third-generation pizza maestro from Naples.  So the combined efforts […]

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Aceluck Thai – My Favorite Hell’s Kitchen Thai

November 4, 2011

  These terribly-lit pictures don’t do it justice, but Aceluck Thai serves some of the freshest, tastiest Thai food in Hell’s Kitchen.  And with literally dozens of Thai restaurants in this area, that is no small claim to fame. It’s a small slip of a restaurant located on one of the not-so-nice blocks of 9th […]

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Five Napkin Burger

October 8, 2011

This large wrap-around the corner restaurant on 9th Avenue and 45th Street is always packed.  Which is why I don’t go there all that often (I’m just not willing to wait that long for a burger – I always think I’ll stop in sometime when I walk by and they’re not swamped.)  And as I […]

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How to Torture Your English-as-a-Second-Language Date

July 19, 2011

Bring him to Empellón for dinner.

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The Ever-so-Slightly Dirty Goose Martini

October 22, 2008

This is what Joe was drinking tonight. Joe feels it’s important to put the ‘ever-so-slightly‘ in front of ‘dirty‘. He says it makes *all* the difference in the world. And not just in that one phrase.

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