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NY Apartments Get Food Delivered–by Fresh Direct Vending Machines

Want Fresh Direct in your building?  I mean REALLY in your building? As in a vending machine with dinner to go?
Brick Underground reports that Fresh Direct will place a vending machine stocked with heat-and-serve meals in your New York co-op or condo building. Right now, the company has launched a pilot program to test the [...]

Southern Food: Upper West Side vs New Orleans

The trendy food in NY these days appears to be fried chicken, a classic dish from the south. For a taste of south on the Upper West Side, we have Rack & Soul on
Broadway at 109th Street. There you can munch on their crispy-on-the-outside, moist-on-the-inside fried chicken. There’s also some pretty good iced tea to [...]

Chef Ed Brown Talks About Upper West Side Dining, His New Chowder House, and the Economic Downturn

With the opening today of Ed’s Chowder House in the Empire Hotel near Lincoln Center, Chef Ed Brown will be dishing up the seafood equivalent of comfort food.
A year ago, Brown, who lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and two sons, opened Eighty One, a Michelin-starred eatery on 81st Street across from [...]

Upper West Side: Artie’s Deli Offers a Fresser’s Dream–A Pastrami Burger

For those who think there’s never too much of a good thing, check out the pastrami burger at Artie’s Deli. Even fressers should take their Lipitor before indulging.  Here’s a review from the Westside Independent:

By Pervaiz Shallwani
A few weeks ago, we read with some interest about Salt Lake City being home to, of all things, [...]

Big Gay Ice Cream Truck Sweeps Through Downtown

I have to say, I love the the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck’s web site.  All those sprinkles!  I could practically eat them off my screen.
The actual truck, though, has yet to make the trek uptown to the Upper West Side.  I’ve issued a plea on Twitter.  Has anyone tried the ice cream?