Vide the spice bros. You notice them as soon as you walk in. Full tables — a foursome here, a sextet there — egging each other on, dapping each other up. They ratchet their bites from spicy to spicier to spiciest. Their mecca is Ugly Baby, the longtime Ca... See more
In the beginning, there were Italian sandwiches, and it was good. But ambition tends to grow beyond what can be contained on a roll. In Ridgewood, two former lunch spots, Arrigo’s and Salvo’s, have, over the past year, extended into the evening hours, wit... See more
Why not Burmese? The country of Myanmar — widely known until 1989 by its colonial name, Burma — is larger than Thailand and more populous than South Korea, but its representation in city kitchens and dining rooms is next to none. You can find 100 pad see ... See more
New York is a tongue town. Katz’s has been slicing it by the pound for decades. It’s a Jewish classic. My grandfather Sam often ordered a tongue omelet, an object of perverse and horrified fascination. I’d sooner have bit off my own than sampled that thin... See more
Mary’s Fish Camp was such a West Village institution that it was easy to overlook it until it was gone. Like Pearl, the nearby seafooderie from which it grew and then acrimoniously split, Mary’s soldiered on for many years after its new-kid-on-the-block s... See more
