NYC Restaurant Reviews | Steakhouses, Burgers & Bars
The Yankees lost in 11 innings. I trauma bonded with the Blackbird app and made a reservation at Crown Shy. This is what healthy coping looks like. Crown Shy is already on my Best Restaurants in NYC list at number two and has been there for a reason. Every single time I walk through the…
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…
A simple conversation with a friend somehow turned into a full debate about what The Smith actually is. Is it a restaurant? A brunch spot? A safety net for groups who cannot agree on anything? We landed on this. The Smith is the modern New York diner. Not the old school greasy spoon where you…
Carver Steak NYC Review (Round Two): Back With the Crew and Zero Regrets Well… I ended up back at CarverSteak. This time it was with the old food crew. The OGs. The guys I started this whole “eat everything in sight” journey with. Haven’t seen them in a minute, so we needed somewhere solid, fun,…
Now that baseball season is back, and the Yankees are playing, the crew is back in rotation. That means I finally get to bring people to all the spots I have been hyping up like a lunatic. First stop, obviously, Golden Steer Steakhouse. I locked in that reservation over a month ago. Minor heart attack…
Another Friday, Another Rescue Mission Well, it’s another Friday, another rough week, and another excuse to try a new restaurant. This time, I checked out CarverSteak NYC, which literally opened on March 20… so yeah, you’re getting this basically next-day intel. I had high hopes. Last week was a miss (looking at you, Estelle’s NYC),…
Another Friday, another reset, and another restaurant that looked way too good on my feed to ignore. This time it was Estelle’s NYC, and before anyone gets confused, this is Estelle’s with two L’s in the Meatpacking District, not the other one downtown. Yes, I’m convinced the naming overlap is intentional… and yes, someone has…
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…
Let’s get straight to it: Bingo Loco is absolutely worth it. It’s every bit as wild, loud, and chaotic as it looks online, and yes, it’s just plain fun. Tickets ran about $45, and the night kicked off around 5 PM, wrapping up near 10:30 PM — which, for New York City, is a total…