Every time I enter the Buttercup Bake Shop, a narrow bakery on the Upper West Side featuring cupcakes and other baked desserts, it’s mobbed. People seem to love this place, spawned by an ex-Magnolia bakery owner.
I have to confess, I don’t get it. Yes, the bustling bakery looks appealing, with layer cakes [...]
As upper Broadway turns into one big bank branch, a stretch of Amsterdam in the low 90’s is sprouting coffee places. There’s Gilileo on the corner of Amsterdam and 94th, and now half a block away sits Sugar Loaf Coffee and Roaster.
Though the coffee is nothing all that special, it feels good [...]
From the folks at New Amsterdam Public, a new market trying to take root downtown. They held a one day event a couple of weeks ago in the old Fulton Fish market, which apparently drew thousands:
On Sunday, December 16th, WINTERMARKET, our all-day event at the New Market Building (former home of the Fulton Fish [...]
I don’t know how I missed this, but the New York Times Magazine on Nov. 11 reminisced about one of the great desserts of all time–Teddie’s Apple Cake.
I’ve been making this yummy, coffee-cake like treat for years. Lately, my daughter made it so that it’s gluten and dairy free. Amazingly, it was still [...]
In today’s Times, Frank Bruni picks his top restaurants for 2007. His take for the year? Casual is in; stuffy is out. But, frankly, that’s not really news. Casual has been in for a long, long time. Yes, attaching a market to your eatery to show you’re earthy bona fides [...]
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