Dining Articles
Dining Review: Hill Country Barbecue
A sprawling barbecue joint that opened less than a year ago, Hill Country could justifiably describe itself as "All Texas All The Time." Everything at Hill Country, from the wine to the firewood, comes from the Lone Star State.
Live Jazz & New Lounge Menu Make Guests Fall For MODA Restaurant in The Flatotel
New York City's MODA Restaurant celebrates the fall season with a series of free live jazz performances during happy hour each week from Wednesday through Saturday
Dining Review: Tio Pepe
Tio Pepe has survived and prospered since 1970, so it must be doing something right. It is, in fact, doing many things right.
Dining Review: Sofrito
Sofrito: A Caribbean Fiesta in East Midtown
Dining Review: Brasserie
A Cool, Modern Take on the Traditional French Pub
Dining Review: Natsumi
Low lights, dark wood, and cozy seating create a pleasing minimalist backdrop for contemporary Japanese and Italian-Japanese fusion cuisine at this sophisticated new restaurant.
Dining Review: La Mela
The 22-year-old La Mela (“the apple”) -- in the heart of Little Italy on teeming, rollicking Mulberry Street -- is a New York City institution.
Dining Review: The Russian Tea Room
This fabled, 80-year-old symbol of old New York is as resplendent as ever as new owners have recreated the grandeur of bygone days
Dining Review: Kellari Taverna
The upscale Kellari Taverna (Greek for "wine cellar") is true to its roots: There's a display of whole fish on ice, along with an wine list that offers more Greek selections than any place in the city.
Dining Review: Hawaiian Tropic Zone
Hawaiian Tropic Zone -- a glitzy, three-tiered showbiz extravaganza that's equal parts bare tables and bare skin -- bills itself as "the hottest place on earth." And it's also the kind of place that gives theme restaurants a good name.
Dining Review: Le Rivage
Not that long ago, there were a number of affordable French restaurants in the West 40s and 50s. The 23-year-old Le Rivage is a survivor with the cozy, cosseted, walk-down feel of its predecessors.
The Russian Tea Room Returns
For the past 80 years, many of New York's defining cultural moments have taken place at the Russian Tea Room. It reopened in November, retaining the best of its history, authenticity, architecture, and menu.
Dining Review: Patsy's
Patsy's is more than a restaurant -- it's a New York City tradition, a landmark Italian eating place, an institution, and a colossus. Patsy's opened 63 years ago, where it remains to this day. Pasquale "Patsy" Scognamillo opened it and was its first chef. His son succeeded him and, for the last couple of decades, his grandson has been the kitchen commander.
Dining Review: Mickey Mantle's
For sports fanatics, Mickey Mantle's is nirvana. Patrons hoist brews and chomp on burgers, buy sports-oriented souvenirs at the gift shop, watch games on the many televisions, and peruse the mini-museum of sports memorabilia that is the core of the bar/restaurant.
Dining Review: Bill's Gay Nineties
It's known as Bill's, Bill's Gay Nineties, and Bill's 1890's Restaurant & Café -- and is New York's finest example of a 1920-1930 speakeasy. This time-warp restaurant is a piece of NY's past.
'The House That Wolf Built': 49-sq.-ft. Replica of Old Yankee Stadium on Display at Mickey Mantle's
A magnificent scale model of Yankee Stadium, portrayed as it was in 1961, will be on display at Mickey Mantle's Restaurant through the end of April.
San Domenico NY Celebrates Sorrento's Cuisine with Michelin-Starred Guest Chef from Italy
San Domenico NY, New York's preeminent Italian restaurant, celebrates the exquisite cuisine of the Gulf of Naples with guest Chef Peppino Aversa, owner and chef of Sorrento's famous Il Buco Ristorante. San Domenico NY will serve Chef Aversa's cuisine now through Jan. 26.
Dining Review: Gyu-Kaku
Americans might have difficulty remembering or even saying the name of a Cooper Square Japanese restaurant called Gyu-Kaku. But the Japanese know it well and love it dearly; that’s because there are over 800 of them in Japan. Now this fast-growing, ten-year-old barbecue outfit is becoming a worldwide phenomenon with outposts in Hawaii, California, Taiwan, and Singapore. The NYC entry is a spacious, stylish venue of lacquered, high-gloss, black wooden booths, white brick walls, high industrial ceilings, hanging lights, an open kitchen, and a candle-lined bar.
Dining Review: AJ Maxwell’s Steakhouse
Steak is the operative word at the seven-month-old AJ Maxwell’s. This quintessential New York City steakhouse offers only five big-beef, red-meat choices. I sampled two of them, and found them to be the best two dishes of the night. Yes, there were advocates for other entrées. The plump double (or triple) Colorado lamb chops, for instance, made a big splash as well. But the dry-aged, bone-in rib eye steak is the king of the roost at Maxwell’s.
Dining Review: Nirvana
Nirvana lives! Although the exotic Indian penthouse on Central Park South that opened in 1970 is no more, a new Nirvana has emerged and a second is planned. And although the magnificent views of the Park are a thing of the past, the colorful tapestries, artifacts, gold lanterns, and massive mirrors live on. Just as importantly, so does the consistently fine food.
Dining Review: Dave & Buster's
Three stories above 42nd Street is Coney Island, a million-dollar midway, Disneyland, Las Vegas, and penny arcades all rolled into one giant complex. But above all other things, it’s big and the food is far better than many of its theme-restaurant counterparts.
Mangia, Manhattan: Little Italy and Beyond
NYC is home to many of the world’s finest restaurants, including a plethora of fine Italian eateries. From small plates to family-style, from coal-oven pizzas to veal chops Siciliano, here are some of our favorite finds.
Dining Review: Costa del Sol
The 14-year-old Costa del Sol is close to the heart of theaterland, in an area where the prices are lower and the many ethnic spots are more authentic. Regulars and in-the-know newcomers go here for solid, hearty Spanish food and down-to-earth prices. They get both and more.
Dining Review: The Blue Point Seafood
The Blue Point, a cool, contemporary, on-the-corner restaurant, opened recently at 46th Street and Ninth Avenue — and it’s a small spot with a big menu. Although the name conjures up images of seafood, and a first glance at the menu makes one think of creperies (there are 124 crepes on it), it is neither, both, and more.
Dining Review: Ishihama
There was a time when Japanese restaurants were a rarity. No more. Now they are everywhere, and with so many to choose from, how do diners tell the good ones from the run-of-the-mill spots?
