The Urban Edge Apartment Living Blog
Musings on living in NYC... oh, and real estate too
At first glance (and second… and third…), the newish Los Perros Locos, specializing in Colombian hot dogs, looks like just another drunk-food joint, all you need to know, done. The menu is filled with crazy, kitchen-sink concoctions (several include crushed Fritos; most have at least two kinds of sauce) called things like the “Pablo Escobar” and the [...]
Today’s question: who has the best smoked-meat in NYC? BrisketTown in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is certainly a contender.
After so many excellent meals at The Spotted Pig in the West Village, and the Breslin and John Dory Oyster Bar at the Ace Hotel in the newly-christened NoMad, I’d follow Chef April Bloomfield and her partner-in-divine Ken Friedman just about anywhere. Even, it seems, to a nondescript, scaffold-laden block in Murray Hill. On a [...]
Elizabeth Faulkner has done well at the TV chef-lebrity thing, appearing as both contestant and judge in programs such as Top Chef Masters and Iron Chef America, as well as popping up in many other similar shows from the world of Reality Cooking TV. Faulkner also had a good run in her native San Francisco, [...]
Here’s something different, and definitely a fun (though not cheap) date-night activity: the pop-up dinner parties/restaurant at the Old Bowery Station, of which ABODE is one that I had a chance to partake in recently. The place, a long-abandoned subway entrance (technically: an “easement”), is part of the Openhouse family of downtown event spaces, which [...]
