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Folk Brooklyn: When Your Foot Takes a Martini Detour I’ve been eyeing Folk in Brooklyn for a while. It sits dangerously close to my regular walking path, which means it falls into that awkward zone: too close to Uber, far enough to make me debate cardio. All winter I kept saying, “I’ll go next week.”…
One of my buddies hit me up with a comped meal at Le Rivage, and normally, I don’t do comp meals. I’m not traveling an hour and a half for a slice of pizza and a handshake. There are exception,s though. Steakhouses are one. And Le Rivage? That place has a soft spot in my…
Monkey Bar NYC: Hog Salt Does It Again I’ve been a Hog Salt fan for years. Like, ride-or-die, trust-the-process, order-without-thinking kind of fan. Au Cheval, Small Cheval, the Chicago spots, all of it. The only reason it took me this long to get to Monkey Bar NYC is simple: I do not enjoy fighting for…
Lately, my feed has been flooded with clips of people raving about Danny’s NYC, so with a free weekend and a social battery running on fumes after three straight weeks of birthday parties, I decided to treat myself to a quiet solo meal. Of course, “quiet” rarely happens in NYC, but I figured a bar…
I’m a little late with this one; this was Halloween weekend, but between traveling and life happening, you’re about to get spammed with a bunch of posts. Consider yourself warned. We ended up at White Horse Tavern in the West Village at around 7 PM. And yes, the correct White Horse Tavern. Be proud of…
So, the boys were in town this weekend, one flew in from Florida, the other made the trek from Pennsylvania, and you know what that means: we needed a good spot to eat, drink, and catch up. You can’t start the night at a strip club every time (well, not every time), so we decided…
When two of my top ten favorites, Gotham Burger Social Club and Smith & Wollensky, join forces for a pop-up, there’s no question: I’m going. I’ve been following Gotham Burger since the early days, from those gritty pandemic pop-ups to their Lower East Side brick-and-mortar, and it’s been a front-row seat to watching a burger…
It’s the most Roman thing in the world for me to get lost on the way to a restaurant that has multiple locations. My friends joke about it — if there’s more than one, I’ll always end up at the wrong one unless someone specifies. And true to form, I headed to Dante on MacDougal…
Some Saturday nights, you don’t want to deal with people. This was one of those nights. However, I also had my Amex Resy credit to use before the quarter ended, so I figured, why not treat myself? Nothing crazy, just a solo meal somewhere new, something to shake things up a bit.Dynamo Room caught my…
It’s been years since I last went to Le Rivage, located in the heart of Restaurant Row and the theater district. At no fault of the restaurant, it’s going near Times Square, and everything to do with tourists is a true nightmare to most New Yorkers. But after my last dining experience, it may be…