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Celeste

Celeste 502 Amsterdam Ave btwn 84th & 85th St 212-874-4559 **CASH ONLY** Getting reservations to some restaurants in NYC can be more competitive than a World Series between the Red Sox and the Yankees. There is a sense of triumph when you finally get them, but I find that sometimes there is so much expectation [...]

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Cafe Mogador

101 Saint Marks Pl – Btwn 1st Ave & Ave A New York, NY 10009 212-677-2226 Brunch in Manhattan is an institution. You can do the enormous, fancy, and slightly stuffy style brunch that places like the Plaza Hotel offer (not my favorite, but it’s worth the experience; how often do you get to eat [...]

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Authentic Italian in Carroll Gardens – Caserta Vecchia

Caserta Vecchia 221 Smith Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 624-7549 A girlfriend and I met up in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn for dinner and a movie the other night. Carroll Gardens is one of my favorite neighborhoods in Brooklyn: small, friendly, and filled with an abundance of restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. (That [...]

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Liquiteria, East Village

Wow – it’s my first official post!  Woo hoo!  I initially had impressive plans for my inaugural post—I’d scour the far-flung outer reaches of one of the boroughs of NYC and find some obscure but obscenely delicious restaurant and knock all of your socks off with my power to describe the food. Alas, these adventures [...]

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