Tired of sawing through onions and watching your garlic hop around the counter? All it takes is $15 for the itinerant knife grinder, Mike Palotta, to sharpen three of your very dullest chef’s knives.
Except don’t wrap your knives in a flimsy dish towel (sorry, that’s the way my mom did it) and run down the [...]
Two new bakery/cafes have opened in the last several months on the Upper East Side. Le Moulin a Cafe, a French spot on York Avenue between 76th and 77th streets, serves up some of the best croissants I’ve eaten in the city. Plenty specializes in homey desserts like rugelach and crumb cake, along with cakes [...]
Somehow the whole notion of locally grown seems a little precious these days. After all, if you’ve lost your job, then price as opposed to provenance may loom as the main consideration. On the other hand, with one food scare after another, it’s undoubtedly worth a few extra bucks to know where your food comes [...]
In these recession-weary times, the prospect of eating all you want from a collection of top flight restaurants for the all-inclusive price of $35 must be impossible to pass up.
Maybe that explains why close to 2,000 people were willing to jam themselves into the 69th Armory at 26th and Lexington on Tuesday for the Village [...]
