New York City

The Afterglow: The Doughnut Plant

May 7, 2007

The Doughnut Plant has haunted us Gourmetros for too long. Two weeks ago, we’d had enough of hearing rave reviews, so we trucked down from SpaHa to see for ourselves whether these were indeed gifts from some benevolent yeasty/cakey doughnut god. We tried to get down there sooner, we really did, but the Plant’s schedule [...]

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Recently uncorked at Gracie Mansion

April 27, 2007

At an event last week at Gracie Mansion, Mayor Bloomberg served Long Island wines. Sweet. Over the last few years Long Island wines were mostly dismissed, but change is, um, fermenting if what I saw in Gracie last week is part of a larger trend. Here they are: Pellegrini Vineyards 2005 Chardonnay Select ($9.99 at [...]

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First Bite: FR.OG

April 23, 2007

So, media night at the new kirsh/virot FR.OG. Some food and drinks were served while guests were given a chance to wander around before tomorrow’s real opening. There’s been a quite a bit of buzz surrounding this opening, with some dating back to summer 2006. The food and drink skewed toward Moroccan and Asian. Waiters [...]

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Cold morning, City Bakery Hot chocolate.

April 12, 2007

Kimberly, sitting in the City Bakery, holding her cup of hot chocolate with homemade marshmallow:[sips] Oooh.[pause, sips] Oooh.[pause, sips] Oh, my God.[pause, sips] Wow. – I sit in front of my pretzel croissant, fruit-nut muffin, and cup of the same and am relieved. Completely relieved, since I’d promised a memorable breakfast and it’s a drizzly, [...]

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Marketwatch: Is it spring yet?

March 28, 2007

Reading Peter Singer and Jim Mason’s The Ethics of What We Eat (review) is making me question my gastro-values and it inspired me to go to the Union Square Greenmarket for the first time in a while (perhaps the first time this year…). Hopefully I will write a post after I finish the book. I [...]

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