I haven’t visited Union Square Cafe since I first moved to the city and sat at the bar on a Monday night to enjoy their lobster pot pie and a Casear salad with the famous USC banana tart. Ken and I ventured over since it’s a neighborhood restaurant and decided to enjoy brunch there last [...]
To end our Saturday of over-indulgence, Ken and I headed to ABC Kitchen for dinner. ABC Kitchen is Jean Georges newest restaurant venture that’s next to ABC Home and Carpet in Union Square. We didn’t have a reservation but luckily got there right as someone was leaving their seats at the bar so decided to [...]
If you’ve been following my Michelin Monday posts, you can tell that I’m almost done with all of the 2010 Michelin-starred restaurants! I still need dining partners for the following restaurants – please e-mail me (gracenotesnyc at gmail dot com) if you’d like to eat with me…I promise we’ll have a good time! We can [...]
Last week, I filmed a great little segment with the executive chef at Oceana, Ben Pollinger. Before we filmed the segment, the chef sent in some amazing treats for me to try and also had the pastry chef, Jansen Chan, send over some shaved ice. The shaved ice had the same texture as the watermelon [...]
Now that the year is practically over (how did August creep up on me like that?) it’s time to assess the damage on my goal of dining at every Michelin-starred restaurant in New York. Luckily, I’ve been to a bunch of them previous to this year (and I decided I wasn’t going to repeat a [...]
