Manhattan

During the coronavirus crisis, the restaurant business has now been whittled down to take-out & delivery within prescribed hours in New York, New Jersey & Connecticut. While some establishments off...

We look forward to it every spring/summer/fall as Farmers Markets kick-off with the best their seasonal harvest have to offer. The new normal in 2020 is farmers markets are opening with many corona...

by Melanie Wong 1 month ago

With consumer income shrinking, where we spend our money becomes even more critical. San Francisco's Good Food Foundation has assembled this list of American small businesses and food producers tha...

by BluPlateSpec 8 days ago

B&H Dairy restaurant, an East Village institution for decades is open for take out now. Ola, Mike, Leo and the rest of the folks there are all back. Lets really support them and the restaurant so i...

Baldor Foods, a major Bronx-based wholesale specialty food supplier to the restaurant/hospitality industry in the metro New York area, has announced it will do home delivery for the first time. Min...

If anyone out there remembers Hong Fat's noodles with gravy, can you please advise where to get a good version of that dish in NYC? My cousin was a Hong Fat devotee and has been searching for a wo...

What are the best grocery delivery services in the NY metro area right now? You may not want to go to your favorite market at this point as part of 'social distancing'. I know individual markets of...

Somewhat disappointingly the cooks seem to be food media celebs and professional cooks rather than sanitation workers.

My wife and I lived in New York in the early 70's. Does anyone remember Cafe du Soir on 86th St. on the Upper East Side, Cheers on the west side just south of Times Square, or Georges Rey? We lov...

by davisesq212 6 months ago

The threads on this discussion are very old so I thought I would start a new one. I would like to buy grade b Madagascar vanilla beans in a physical store in NYC or online. I just am making extrac...

There have been a lot of changes at Chelsea Market in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. We did a spring foray on Sunday afternoon and it was bustling, busy as usual. There is a basement le...

by patsully 2 months ago

This does a wonderful job capturing just how quickly everything has changed: "The review I had ready to go was about a below-ground sushi counter with eight seats. Was it going to become a four-se...

With the passing of Grandpa Al Lewis this week, I've gotten involved in a friendly disagreement with some co-workers as to where exactly Grandpa's restaurant was located in the 80's/early 90's. A...

by withabandon 8 years ago

Hello! I'm wondering if anyone remembers a restaurant called Chelsea Place. It was in Chelsea, and you entered through an antique store and went downstairs to get to the restaurant. They had put...

by Melanie Wong 1 month ago

" . . . Shake Shack was fortunate last Friday to be able to access the additional capital we needed to ensure our long term stability through an equity transaction in the public markets. We’re than...

When we lived in NY, our favorite neighborhood restaurant was Hobeau's, which sadly has closed. Has anyone found another restaurant with similar menu, price, and ambiance?

I used to love the millet pancakes at Cafe Orlin in the east village in NYC. Part of my pandemic coping strategy is to make things that I always meant to do but never got around to, and this one ha...

Legendary New York restauranteur Sirio Maccioni of the former Le Cirque in all its incarnations has passed away at 88. Having started his career at the famed Delmonico's, he represented one of the ...

by Melanie Wong 2 months ago

Three e-book limit for now. Presumably there are cookbooks and food literature in the mix.