NYC Restaurant Reviews | Steakhouses, Burgers & Bars
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…
I almost went to the wrong Astor. Of course I did. If you know me, you know I get lost anytime two places share a name. Astor Place. The Astor building. The Astor restaurant. My brain saw three Astors and quietly left the chat. So here is my one piece of real advice before we…
It had been another beautiful week at work, and by beautiful I mean the kind of week that makes you stare at your phone and go, sure, let’s get a martini and some steak. That is not a cry for help. That is Tuesday. So I did what any self-respecting Brooklyn guy does when the…
Some inconclusive information came my way this week about my favorite chicken pot pie in the city. Turned out to be false. But once you start questioning your favorite pot pie, there’s only one responsible move. Taste every chicken pot pie in New York until the record is set straight. This is stop one. A…
Yankee season is winding down, which means Shannon’s reservation-pulling season is winding down with it. She got us into Gramercy Tavern, a place I genuinely have not been to in years. I mean years years. Wild that it took this long. I wanted to know if it still held up. Walking in, the call to…
My buddy hit me up about Pizza Studio Tamaki and I couldn’t say no. It’s been on my radar for a while, this place out of Japan, considered one of the best pizza spots in the world by people who know a lot more about crust than a guy who mostly reviews steak. He had…
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…
Let’s get something out of the way first. I do not order salad because I enjoy vegetables. I order salad because a man my size needs fiber running through the pipes at least once a week or things get real dark real fast. That is the whole reason this list exists. Every steakhouse thinks their…
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…
I heard a new bar was opening up in the East Village called Limo Bar NYC and immediately had to check it out. The concept is exactly what it sounds like. Inside feels like a limo. But honestly my brain went somewhere completely different the second I walked in. I expected Gordon Gekko whispering “greed…