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Restaurants reviewed by New York Magazine (Showing 1-95 of 2218)
| West Village | ||
| June 15, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Not so long ago, the generic Coney Island hot dog was this town's preferred summer snack. But these days in the big... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Chelsea | ||
| May 19, 2008 - Roughly translated from the Italian, fare la scarpetta means to wipe your plate clean with a hunk of bread-a practice... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West American | ||
| May 18, 2008 - 1/5 stars - Ambitious five-star hotels have been showcases for grandiose cooking ever since the great chef Auguste Escoffier took... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown East | ||
| May 11, 2008 - 2/5 stars - As the name suggests, Olana, which opened two months ago among the sooty gray office buildings along lower Madison... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron American | ||
| May 11, 2008 - 2/5 stars - As the name suggests, Olana, which opened two months ago among the sooty gray office buildings along lower Madison... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron | ||
| May 11, 2008 - Faux smoke and applied grime above Wildwood's raucous 50-foot bar and a bold mix of rustic barn siding with... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West | ||
| May 04, 2008 - Alain Ducasse's unabashed need to be embraced by New York has a real chance for fulfillment at Benoit once he whips... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village Diner and Coffee | ||
| May 04, 2008 - 3/5 stars - Just two and a half months old, the New French, an unassuming little spot in the West Village, cannot fool the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Greenwich Village American | ![]() ![]()
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| April 21, 2008 - 1/5 stars - At Elettaria, furtively located behind a red painted door among the jumble of knickknack shops and seedy shoe stores... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper East Side Mediterranean | ||
| April 21, 2008 - 2/5 stars - During the course of my gastronomic wanderings, I've exposed my debonair, Upper East Side mother to all kinds of... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village | ||
| April 21, 2008 - Tet is the most ambitious effort yet from Saigon-born Steven Duong, who won neighborhood hearts when he opened Nam in... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side Latin American | ||
| April 13, 2008 - La Rural, an Argentine bistro named for the annual livestock show in Buenos Aires, looks a lot like its predecessor... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +69% | East Village Japanese, Asian and Noodle Shop | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| April 08, 2008 - 4/5 stars - According to the exacting code laid down by the original food mandarins at Michelin (and normally adhered to by this... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Pizza |
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| April 07, 2008 - 3/5 stars - It's a sad but pretty well-established fact that a good slice is hard to find. Maybe that's why the recent opening of... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side Southern & Soul | ||
| April 07, 2008 - Notoriously fussy Upper West Siders did not hesitate to chew out star chef Jonathan Waxman's uneven southern-Creole... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +80% | West Village American | |
| March 30, 2008 - If splendid food comes first, with points for local-idol sightings, we'll write off the painful din at Commerce and... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side American | ||
| March 30, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Superfluous truffle-strewn dinners are the first thing to go during times of economic distress, along with the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown East American | ||
| March 24, 2008 - 3/5 stars - If cooking, at its highest levels, is an intuitive, almost musical art, then so is putting together a great... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper East Side | ||
| March 03, 2008 - I couldn't wait to check out the St. Louisstyle pork ribs at Smokin' Q, wrenched from the embers of a failed kosher... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side Wine Bar | ||
| February 25, 2008 - 1/5 stars - Of all the celebrated superstar chefs who rose to prominence in the nineties, Daniel Boulud is arguably the most... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +90% | Williamsburg | |
| February 25, 2008 - In no time at all we zoom over the Williamsburg Bridge to the charmingly rustic Fiore, with its spiffy service, flea... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village | ||
| February 24, 2008 - 1/5 - As anyone who's ever peeked inside a New York City restaurant kitchen knows, the majority of meals, from high French... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Williamsburg | ||
| February 24, 2008 - 2/5 - s anyone who's ever peeked inside a New York City restaurant kitchen knows, the majority of meals, from high French... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village American | ![]() ![]()
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| February 04, 2008 - 2/5 stars - Bar Blanc, which opened just before the New Year in a narrow little space on 10th Street in the West Village, seeks... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West Korean and Asian | ||
| February 04, 2008 - Fatty Crab's hustling impresario Zak Pelaccio is still fine-tuning his Pan-Asian riff at Chop Suey as our foursome... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side American | ![]()
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| February 04, 2008 - 3/5 stars - With its slightly awkward, preciously ambitious name, its modest size, and its bland, modishly stark interior... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Murray Hill Kosher, Eastern European and Sandwiches/Subs | ![]() ![]()
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| February 04, 2008 - The reconstituted 2nd Avenue Deli on a quiet side street is a bittersweet triumph-a mere sliver of the landmark it... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village | ||
| January 21, 2008 - The Underground Gourmet can't blame Jody Williams for refusing to call Gottino a wine bar. After all, New York is... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Greenwich Village | ||
| January 14, 2008 - 2/5 stars - More than ever, in their quest for the increasingly fragmented, ever-elusive consumer dollar, restaurateurs need a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Soho | ||
| January 08, 2008 - There is no mule tethered to a lamppost out front of Hundred Acres. Beyond that, Marc Meyer and Vicki Freeman... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Hell's Kitchen Wine Bar, Seafood and Steakhouse | ![]() ![]()
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| December 17, 2007 - Coming after "I'm not your bitch, bitch" fame on Bravo's Top Chef, chef-consultant Dave Martin's new "think bistro... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron American | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| December 17, 2007 - 1/5 stars - If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Danny Meyer should find a good deal to be flattered about at... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron Steakhouse | ![]() ![]()
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| December 10, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Nothing in the restaurant world lends itself to over-the-top self parody quite like a steakhouse. To stand out amid... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Italian | ![]()
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| December 10, 2007 - In no time at all, East Villagers have discovered the Smith with its good, honest el cheapo grub. Not to be confused... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West Italian and Steakhouse | ![]() ![]()
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| December 03, 2007 - The grand scheme to turn Shelly's Tradizionale into an Italian fish house celebrating the Tuscan seashore has been... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Coffee and Mediterranean |
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| November 25, 2007 - A year and a half ago, when the Underground Gourmet adapted this magazine's five-star restaurant-rating system to our... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village American | ![]() ![]()
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| November 19, 2007 - 1/5 stars - The Lower East Side has been a restaurant destination for nearly a decade now, which is more than enough time for a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Wine Bar and Tapas |
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| November 19, 2007 - With Solex, his French wine bar, Frederick Twomey of the Italian Bar Veloce and the Spanish Bar Carrera has, as he... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Soho American | ||
| November 18, 2007 - 1/5 stars - After working his way through a few of Fabio Trabocchi's ornate compositions on the new menu at Fiamma, the high-end... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Lower East Side American and English | ![]() ![]()
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| November 12, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The Lower East Side has been a restaurant destination for nearly a decade now, which is more than enough time for a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +79% | Gramercy/Flatiron Indian and Vegetarian | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| November 12, 2007 - The team that created the brilliant and refined tasting menu at Dévi that quickly became a smash hit is back, having... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +76% | Upper East Side American | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| November 05, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The doctrine of seasonal correctness is as ingrained in the collective restaurant psyche, these days, as linen... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Chelsea Tapas | ||
| October 29, 2007 - 3/5 stars - 'Where are the tables?" the man asked the bartender at El Quinto Pino one recent Saturday night while he and his date... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village Japanese and Sandwiches/Subs | ![]()
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| October 22, 2007 - 1/5 stars - BarFry, which opened a little over a month ago on Carmine Street, is another new, small-scale Japanese restaurant... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron Spanish | ||
| October 22, 2007 - Pamplona is chef-owner Alex Ureña's bow to reality. Ureña, his passionate celebration of molecular cooking in this... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village Japanese | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| October 22, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The wise gastronomes of Japan have a single, ironclad litmus test when it comes to eating out in their own country... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West American | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| October 15, 2007 - 2/5 stars - I've written before about the instructive, even allegorical career of Laurent Tourondel. The young, classically... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village Italian and Wine Bar | ![]() ![]()
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| October 08, 2007 - Restaurateurs, like TV producers, stand-up comics, and gold prospectors, operate in a landscape fraught with extreme... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West Mexican |
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| October 08, 2007 - Toloache is an earnest Mexican bistro yearning for the big time. Hand-painted tile, silver lanterns, white... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| DUMBO |
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| October 01, 2007 - 3/5 stars - You never know where you might stumble upon an exceptional taco in this town: at a remote soccer field in Red Hook... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +80% | Soho Italian, Mediterranean and Pub Food | ![]() ![]()
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| October 01, 2007 - Lured from his five-diamond (AAA) cocoon at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, new chef-partner Fabio Trabocchi... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper East Side Italian | ||
| September 17, 2007 - I don't want to jinx this jinxed restaurant address with rashly optimistic judgments, but Accademia di Vino could be... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron | ||
| September 17, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The endless stream of restaurants a professional critic must endure fall into various categories. There are the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Italian | ![]() ![]()
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| September 17, 2007 - 1/5 stars - The endless stream of restaurants a professional critic must endure fall into various categories. There are the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron Chinese | ||
| September 13, 2007 - 0/5 stars - So when, exactly, did the glamour and mystery of Chinese cuisine disappear from New York? Among the city's querulous... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Lower East Side Latin American | ![]() ![]()
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| August 27, 2007 - 1/5 stars - Its hard to know exactly what kind of restaurant Rayuela means to be, which seems to be how the exuberant chef... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper East Side Southern & Soul | ![]()
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| August 27, 2007 - Probably you Justin Timberlake fans (plus the guys who'd follow you anywhere) will haunt Southern Hospitality hoping... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +72% | Lower East Side Spanish, Tapas and Wine Bar | ![]()
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| August 27, 2007 - 1/5 stars - In the shark-tank world of New York restaurants, proprietors try all sorts of desperate measures to stay afloat. They... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +84% | Midtown East Italian and Seafood | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| August 15, 2007 - In Manhattan's spring shuffle of three-star toques, Fiamma's Michael White now reigns in departed chef Scott Conant's... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| August 15, 2007 - 1/5 stars - It has been my grim duty, recently, to plop down on my not-so-fluffy couch every Wednesday evening and watch (and... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village American and Asian | ![]() ![]()
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| August 15, 2007 - 1/5 stars - It has been my grim duty, recently, to plop down on my not-so-fluffy couch every Wednesday evening and watch (and... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| East Village Cuban | ||
| August 08, 2007 - Few foods exert as tantalizing a pull on the Underground Gourmet's voracious appetite as rice and beans. Throw in a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Chelsea Barbecue | ![]()
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| August 08, 2007 - 1/5 stars - There was a time, not so long ago, when the city's community of ravenous and dispirited barbecue hounds didn't care... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +81% | Midtown East Seafood | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| August 08, 2007 - It wouldn't be disappointing if Oceana's newest chef, Ben Pollinger, were a recognizable disciple of his mentor, the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +75% | Soho French and Seafood | ![]()
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| July 16, 2007 - 1/5 stars - Imagine, these days, there are thousands of restaurants around the world named Provence (a quick Googling reveals one... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +83% | East Village Japanese |
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| June 19, 2007 - Aside from David Cross’s favorite, Minca, Momofuku pretty much has the lock on the ramen market. But this Wednesday... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Soho Italian | ![]() ![]()
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| June 11, 2007 - A glance at the menu reveals the grand ambition of Aurora Soho. Summer truffles indeed. A generous scattering of the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Park Slope Hot Dogs |
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| June 11, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Hot-dog eating is (almost) all about context. That most plebeian of foods wants to be devoured outdoors, ideally at a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Murray Hill Seafood | ![]()
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| June 05, 2007 - Quiet as an octopus scooting along the ocean bottom, Wild Edibles stuffed a mini eat-at counter and eight two-top... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West Italian | ![]() ![]()
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| June 04, 2007 - 2/5 stars - Once upon a time, in New York City, a French restaurant called Le Pavillon was the model from which fashionable... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Meatpacking District Steakhouse and American | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| May 28, 2007 - Updating Old Homestead's sidewalk seating with a nip and a tuck to pass it off as the new Prime Burger Café is... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Murray Hill Seafood | ![]() ![]()
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| May 28, 2007 - 1/5 stars - More than any dish I can think of, salmon is useless to restaurant critics. It's a stolid, predictable fish that... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Gramercy/Flatiron Japanese and Sushi | ||
| May 21, 2007 - 2/5 stars - For the time being, the invasion of the Godzilla-size dining palaces appears to have ceased. This parade of grandiose... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Tribeca | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| May 21, 2007 - 1/5 stars - For the time being, the invasion of the Godzilla-size dining palaces appears to have ceased. This parade of grandiose... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West American, French and Italian | ![]() ![]()
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| May 14, 2007 - I'm betting that the food at Landmarc in the Time Warner building never has to be one jot better than it is right now... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Murray Hill European | ![]() ![]()
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| May 14, 2007 - 4/5 stars - According to The Oxford Companion to Food, Belgium's culinary and spiritual identities can be divided along... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +71% | East Village Mediterranean, International and Tapas | ![]()
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| May 07, 2007 - 1/5 stars - So what is a gastropub, exactly? If you ask the owners of the original gastropub in London, a scruffy place called... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Meatpacking District International | ||
| May 07, 2007 - So what is a gastropub, exactly? If you ask the owners of the original gastropub in London, a scruffy place called... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +90% | East Village French | ![]() ![]()
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| April 30, 2007 - "It’s a real find,” our producer friend Dasha promises, inviting us to discover the no-airs bistro Tree in the East... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +86% | Gramercy/Flatiron American | ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| April 23, 2007 - 3/5 stars - It's been said (and if it hasn't, then I'll go ahead and say it) that great chefs have many of the same qualities as... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown West American | ![]() ![]()
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| April 23, 2007 - Spotlight Live is braced for flocks of free-spending fame freaks, wannabe American Idols and karaoke fans hungry for... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Williamsburg Vietnamese | ![]()
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| April 16, 2007 - 3/5 stars - Vietnamese restaurants in New York tend to fall into two categories: those with atmosphere (and its incumbent sexy... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +73% | East Village Korean and Asian |
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| April 02, 2007 - 3/5 stars - Since we're at the tail end of a long and dreary winter, and since I've been grumpily attempting to do what no... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Park Slope Pub Food | ||
| March 27, 2007 - After opening in June 2006, this Irish-expat's pub on a formerly desolate stretch of Fourth Avenue quickly became the... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village American | ![]() ![]()
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| March 26, 2007 - 1/5 stars - My first doomed attempt to gain entrance to Graydon Carter's much-hyped, -publicized, and, in some quarters, -reviled... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper West Side Greek | ![]()
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| March 05, 2007 - We will make it to Lincoln Center by 7:30, won’t we?” asked the woman of a certain age who was doing the early-bird... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Midtown East | ![]()
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| February 18, 2007 - F ans of Sam DeMarco's comfort food at the restaurant First, and later District, will want to know he's back from a... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Lower East Side French | ||
| February 14, 2007 - Tonight Regaté opens up a few doors down from Zucco (the place with the lavatory library). It’s the third French... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +63% | Upper East Side Italian | ![]()
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| February 12, 2007 - A rustic heft and a pop of creative ego flavor the Sicilian cooking of Salvatore Fraterrigo, the new resident chef at... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Upper East Side Greek | ||
| February 05, 2007 - Where there once were Swedish meatballs, there are now keftedakia krasato (and a consulting chef late of Periyali... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Greenwich Village Pub Food | ||
| February 05, 2007 - 2/5 stars - The Underground Gourmet is no spring chicken, but that didn't stop the bouncer at the Stoned Crow from checking our I... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| West Village Thai and Asian | ||
| January 28, 2007 - Not even a week's gone by and we're back a second time to taste more spicy designer riffs on Thai staples at Hurapan... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Lower East Side Pizza | ||
| January 27, 2007 - What are a couple of career nightlifers to do when the economic realities of the club business are giving them grief... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| Chinatown Vietnamese and Sandwiches/Subs | ||
| January 23, 2007 - It takes chutzpa to open up a báhn mì shop around the corner from the beloved Bánh Mì Saigon (not to mention Viet-Nam... full review at New York Magazine | ||
| +81% | Prospect Heights Pizza, Italian and Vegetarian |
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| December 18, 2006 - After opening what might be New Yorks most idiosyncratic wine barProspect Heights rustic Aliseo Osteria del Borgo... full review at New York Magazine |