Our never-ending quest to find great tasting ramen brought us to Oh! Taisho, a small eatery on St. Mark’s Place in the east village. Since all of the places along St. Mark’s Place are somewhat similar (small, always packed, cheap eats and lots of beer), we’ve been trying to go to restaurants with good ramen [...]
On Friday night, I made a special trip to DessertTruck, a Mister Softee type van parked on 8th and University. DessertTruck was started by two friends – one a pastry sous chef from Le Cirque and the other an MBA student at Columbia: We ordered two warm desserts: the molten chocolate cake and the Slow-Baked [...]
Have you ever walked by a Mandler’s? They have these obnoxious signs that say “OURS IS 9″ INCHES LONG!” They serve bratwursts and other unhealthy foods with a large variety of mustards. I headed there one Sunday afternoon for a quick bite to eat and didn’t know what to order, so I went with Mandler’s [...]
One rainy day, I headed to Washington Square Park to fulfill my dosa craving (the winner of the 2007 Vendy’s) but the dosa man wasn’t there. BOO! Instead of moping around (or going to the Hampton’s Chutney Co. in Soho), I decided to grab myself a falafel from Mamoun’s: I don’t even know what this [...]
If you’re ever in Washington Square Park and you feel your stomach rumbling because you don’t feed it enough, you’re in luck! There’s a great cart that serves fresh dosa’s – every Monday through Saturday, a guy pushes a cart with fresh ingredients to Washington Square Park to prepare dosa’s for the NYU kids and [...]
