Souen: MACROBIOTISM 4 EVER

REVIEW

November 15, 2010


CUISINE: Health Food
NEIGHBORHOOD: East Village, Greenwich Village, Soho


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210 Sixth Ave. |  28 E. 13th.  |  326 E. 6th

 

I am about to spill a treasured secret of my food-loving soul.  After this review, there is no going back: I am going to reveal something B-I-G.  Ready?  Let’s get intimate.

I like health food.  Like, I really, really, really like health food.  I voluntarily eat things like tempeh and I use stevia extract in my coffee instead of sugar and I just have this thing for whole grains.  Kale is my BFF. 

Given this confession, can we still be friends?*

 

 

 


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Posted in FOOD on November 15, 2010 7:43am by Rachel Hochhauser | 17 comments





Motorino

REVIEW

May 19, 2010


CUISINE: Italian, Pizza
NEIGHBORHOOD: East Village, Williamsburg

 

349 East 12th St. at 1st Ave.   or  319 Graham Ave. at Devoe St. 
(p) 212-777-2644/ (p) 718-599-8899                      

Williamsburg pizza fave crosses the river, parks around the corner from East Village gem, Luzzo's, and easily takes the win. Start off with the fire roasted mortadella — strip of intensely flavored pork sausage, halved cherry tomatoes, raw onions and fresh basil — presented like a salad. It's unbelievable, and it's just the beginning. Cooked in a wood-fired oven, Motorino's personal pizzas are the best I've had in the city.  The dough is soft and moist with black circles of burnt, ashy crust. Unlike Luzzo's, whose pies are sometimes rolled too thin and fall apart, the crust at Motorino manages to be both delicate and sturdy, easily surviving the distance between plate and mouth. CONT'D

 


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Posted in FOOD on May 19, 2010 10:35am by Jena Steinbach | 7 comments





Ippudo

REVIEW

March 16, 2010


CUISINE: Japanese
NEIGHBORHOOD: East Village

 

65 4th Ave at 10th St.

(p) 212-388-0088

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David Chang who? If you're craving a rich bowl of Ramen, Ippudo is where it's at. As novice Ramen eaters, we didn't think it could get any better than Momofuku, but Ippodu makes poor Momo's soup look plain amateur. True, the wait is always over an hour, but the giant bowl of steaming broth and meaty pork is totally worth killing some time for. And how often do we say that?  CONT'D


 


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Posted in FOOD on March 16, 2010 7:51am by Jena Steinbach | 11 comments





Holyland Market

REVIEW

February 19, 2010


CUISINE: Middle Eastern
NEIGHBORHOOD: East Village

 

122 St. Marks Pl. at Ave. A

(p) 212-477-4440

 

I rarely make it to alphabet city, so I haven’t really explored the neighborhood’s culinary offerings as much as Nolita, where I live.  But on Monday, when I wasn’t working (happy b-day Washington!), I went to get some film developed on Avenue A, and found myself with time to kill.

 

One of the reasons I love New York is that you can easily discover a new place, stumble upon a hidden treasure that will end up becoming one of your go-to joints. I walked by Holyland Market on St. Marks Place once without noticing it, and it wasn’t until the second round that I peered through the window and saw the trays of bourekas. CONT'D

 


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Posted in FOOD on February 19, 2010 5:18pm by Rachel Hochhauser | 4 comments





Dos Toros

REVIEW

January 18, 2010


CUISINE: Mexican
NEIGHBORHOOD: East Village, Flatiron/Union Square

Photo: NYtimes

137 Fourth Ave. at 13th St.

(p) 212-677-7300

 

After years of listening to my southern and northern California friends argue about which area has real Mexican food, one of them did something to back up all the talk. Along with his brother Leo, our friend Oliver Kremer opened Dos Toros in the tiny space on 4th Avenue which many of us fondly remember as Tasti D-Lite.  Modeled after one of their favorite taquerias in the Bay Area, the brothers hope to "Change New York's Burrito Landscape."  CONT'D

 


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Posted in FOOD on January 18, 2010 2:01pm by Jena Steinbach | 5 comments