Island Oyster, Governors Island, NYC
I took some out-of-towners on the ferry ride to Governors Island for lunch at Island Oyster, an only-summer destination. It's the seasonal restaurant under the [...]
Ophelia Lounge, Beekman, NYC
The newly renovated rooftop lounge at the Beekman Tower is now open sporting breathtaking East River views along with high-end cocktails and nibbles. The lounge, [...]
Lisbon, Portugal Round-Up of Restaurant Recommendations
Last year when my granddaughter Delilah was born in Lisbon, I spent time eating my way around the city. (You may be one of those [...]
Spicy Strawberry Margarita
Spicy Strawberry Margarita When this photo and accompanying recipe for a strawberry margaritas arrived in my inbox, it caught my eye as I love spicy [...]
Acme Fish Fridays, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
If you — like me — are catatonic over the high price of smoked fish in Manhattan, you need to know about Acme Fish's Fridays. Zabar's [...]
West Street Grill, Litchfield, CT
After wandering around the stores of Litchfield, we started looking for a place to get a bite. With my friend on a very restricted diet, [...]
Cornelia Street Cafe, West Village, NYC + Girls and Boys
Stopped in for a quick lunch at the Cornelia Street Cafe on our way to see Carey Mulligan in the gut-wrenching, one-woman show Girls and [...]
Most Recent Bites
Island Oyster, Governors Island, NYC
I took some out-of-towners on the ferry ride to Governors Island for lunch at Island Oyster, an only-summer destination. It's the seasonal restaurant under the tutelage of Kerry Heffernan, also the chef at Grand Banks, another [...]
Bella Blu, Upper East Side, NYC
Coming from a fabulously informative visit to the Public Art special exhibit open through September 23 at the Museum of the City of New York by one of its curators, we started looking for a [...]
Cornelia Street Cafe, West Village, NYC + Girls and Boys
Stopped in for a quick lunch at the Cornelia Street Cafe on our way to see Carey Mulligan in the gut-wrenching, one-woman show Girls and Boys from the Tony Award-winning writer Dennis Kelly at the [...]
Casa Apicii, Greenwich Village, NYC
Continuing on my long birthday celebration, I met two friends at Casa Apicii a 19th-century townhouse for a regional Italian dinner recently. Although there's a dimly lit secret bar upstairs, we began at the street-level marble [...]
Saar Indian Bistro, Midtown, NYC
Members of Les Dames d'Escoffier New York celebrated Legacy Award winner, Chef Helen Vass, at a dinner earlier this summer at Dame Surbhi Sahni's Saar Indian Bistro. The Legacy Awards hone the winners' crafts, stimulate [...]
The Dining Room at The Met, Upper East Side, NYC
The Dining Room at The Met is a perfect respite after a visiting one of their special exhibitions. This time, I was seeing the now-closed Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence that featured some 150 works by [...]
Orsay, Upper East Side, NYC
After going to a book launch lecture at Librairie Albertine, we looked for a place to get something to eat al fresco at it was a perfect summer eve. We asked the man on the street who [...]
Raoul’s, Soho, NYC
How'd I miss Raoul's? Dan Aykroyd, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Kate Moss didn't at least according to their press. This small dark, wonderfully bedecked French bistro in SoHo opened in 1975 and [...]