NYC Restaurant Reviews | Steakhouses, Burgers & Bars
Reviews of my favorite type of cuisine. Steakhouses have steak, and I love a good steak
New people in town means one thing. Somebody needs a Sunday Roast, and I need an excuse. So we went to Hawksmoor for the English Sunday Roast. If you’ve read my first Hawksmoor Sunday Roast post, you know this isn’t a discovery. This is a habit. I’m here pretty much once a month. At this…
I ended up at ROMY. Steakhouse? Supper house? Supper club? They call themselves a few things. I’m calling it a steakhouse, because that’s what it feels closest to, and because steakhouses are my love language. ROMY took over the old Little Prince space on Prince Street in SoHo. It’s from Cobi Levy, the restaurateur behind…
As a Yankees fan, I know a thing or two about rooting for an empire. So when I realized I had quietly eaten my way through every corner of Simon Kim’s restaurant kingdom, it felt right. Kim opened Cote in Flatiron nine years ago. Then came Coqodaq. Then he took over three floors of 550…
Another bad week, another perfectly good reason to find a steakhouse. Tallow just opened inside the old Lord and Taylor building, and word got to me about a happy hour running ten dollar martinis from five to seven. I did not need to hear anything else. I headed down, relatively close to the trains, no…
British and Indian is not a combination I would have put money on before walking into Elder. On paper it sounds like a fusion restaurant having an identity crisis. In practice it works better than it has any right to. Solo visit, no real expectations walking in beyond curiosity and my usual willingness to eat…
Every once in a while a Sunday lines up the way it is supposed to. The weather cooperated, my friend Steve pulled a reservation at 4 Charles Prime Rib, and everyone actually had time to sit down and relax instead of racing through a meal like the check was on fire. 4 of us. How…
Fourth of July weekend, half the city fled to the Hamptons, and Shannon and I took full advantage of the empty reservation slots that opened up as a result. Post-Yankee game, we struck. Cote is one of my top restaurants in this city. Full stop. I would never pass up a reservation. It is a…
This is part of my 72 Hours in San Francisco food and travel guide. Read the full series for every stop on the trip. The second night in San Francisco ended up at Osso Steakhouse for both happy hour and dinner, which honestly turned out to be a pretty solid move. And yes, before anybody…
This is part of my 72 Hours in San Francisco food and travel guide. Read the full series for every stop on the trip. For my first dinner in San Francisco, my friends managed to pull off what felt like a minor miracle and score a reservation for four at House of Prime Rib. If…
I have been following Rocco DiSpirito’s career for a while. I remember a Tindle event where he served the most insane vegetarian chicken parm I have ever had. Coming from a guy like me, someone who considers a salad a tragedy and a vegetable a garnish, that is not a sentence I say lightly. The…