Food and Things

Edible Manhattan gave itself a party Sept. 17. There was a VIP reception at Pasanella and Sons Vintners on South Street. Murray’s Cheese laid out a great spread that included Vermont Butter and Cheese Company’s Coupole, a luscious goat cheese, and Jasper Hill Farm’s buttery and dense Constant Bliss.
Then the party moved to [...]

Once again, I find myself bemoaning the state of Upper West Side dining. There’s really no place that can measure up to the best downtown eateries.
Salt is a great example of why it’s worth schlepping downtown–in this case to Soho– for a meal. I had eaten there about a year ago with [...]

Once an area that was a bit worn around the edges, Broadway north of 96th is gentrifying rapidly. There are some losses. Oppenheimer’s, the esteemed butcher, is gone. But there are also some gains.
Take Sura, a modest eatery on the west side of Broadway between 100th and 101st. Don’t go for [...]

Tomatoes, now at their juiciest and tastiest, will be going out of season very soon. Then, you’ll be stuck with the waxy orbs that pass for the fruit during the long off-season.
Restaurants around town are taking advantage of the mother lode of great tomatoes by concocting traditional and artful BLT’s. Here’s a [...]