I was a big fan of the farm-to-table cooking at Olmsted, and while I always wanted to go back, getting a table was impossible. But now the restaurant is open for brunch service, and you can actually get a seating at normal hours. So off I went to see how Olmsted would approach the question of how do you like your eggs…
Brunch hot spots come and go, but Bubby’s is forever. This place has been around for nearly 20 years, yet it still manages to draw crowds for its brunch. Just a few weekends ago, a 10 am walk-in, which some may view as an aggressively early brunch time, required a 45-minute wait. Bubby’s gives the people what they want, which is an old-fashioned, all-American breakfast consisting of key comfort foods. They don’t challenge you with interesting reinventions or dainty small plates, because who necessarily wants that so early in the day?
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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants,” is an eating philosophy that continues to grow in popularity in New York. To accommodate this trend, vegetarian restaurant openings have become increasingly popular, and one of the newer and better places to get your vegetable fix is at Nix in Greenwich Village. As my friend described it, the food is similar to the ones made at the ridiculously overpriced abcv, the vegetable-driven restaurant from Jean-Georges Vongerichten, only that it tastes better and is less expensive.Read More
I absolutely love Roberta’s. I never get tired of watching all the colorful people who look like caricatures of what it means to be from Brooklyn serving me the most amazing pizza. My go-to order is always the Bee Sting pie and the sticky bun. It’s always consistent and I’m never disappointed.Read More
As we know, Brooklyn is all fancy now, and the whole concept of the humble and scrappy Brooklyn restaurant seems like a thing of the past. But Chez Ma Tante, a new restaurant in Greenpoint that bills itself as a British restaurant, opts for more of a neighborhoody vibe. There are no fancy blue banquettes or expensive looking wood paneled walls inside, just a modest bar and basic tables and chairs, clean and functional like they were the best pieces from Ikea.Read More