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CLE bucket list: your places to eat for 2016

CLE bucket list: your places to eat for 2016

If you’re lucky enough to come home for the holidays, you’re lucky enough. While living in New York City the past couple of years I haven’t really had a chance to enjoy the perks of my hometown’s “coming up”, so I decided to take it…

Prohibition Hour, private dining, and all the holiday vibes at Louie and Chan NYC

Prohibition Hour, private dining, and all the holiday vibes at Louie and Chan NYC

If there’s one thing you have probably learned about me, it’s that I love to eat (and take semi-professional food Instagram pics). So I guess that just means sometimes I get to dine in style, this time at Louie and Chan‘s Media Dinner and Prohibition…

You don’t need a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving at Mimi Cheng’s

You don’t need a turkey to celebrate Thanksgiving at Mimi Cheng’s

At this point in my NYC dining experience I’ve pretty much succumbed all sorts of dumplings at any given moment in time (like, if I see the word dumpling, I’m probably walking inside the door). Broiled, pan-fried—dumplings are as delicious as they are affordable, and…

¡Pintxo Me!: 1st Ave. Spanish spot lightens up East Village

¡Pintxo Me!: 1st Ave. Spanish spot lightens up East Village

I find it actually impossible while in the East Village to try and find a place to eat, as in: there seems to be a new restaurant opening every other week. But I’m one of those inevitable “judge a restaurant by its signage” (and Health…

Rainbows and bagels and Funfetti cream cheese, oh my!

Rainbows and bagels and Funfetti cream cheese, oh my!

The Bagel store has apparently outdone themselves, this time with a sweet rainbow bagel topped with Funfetti cream cheese that’s a bit overwhelming in the sense that there COULD be nothing sweeter I have ever tasted in my LIFE, which means it’s also the best-tasting…

Montauk fresh: Meatball Shop’s Michael Chernow has a new Nolita seafood venture

Montauk fresh: Meatball Shop’s Michael Chernow has a new Nolita seafood venture

I have a definite case of the end-of-summer blues, so when I was browsing Eater’s curated HEATMAPS highlighting New York’s food hotspots I was drawn to the idea of a Montauk-inspired restaurant Seamore’s with a “Daily Landing” meat and veggie combo, similar to the founder…

UrbanSpace’s Garment District location now open

UrbanSpace’s Garment District location now open

UrbanSpace is known for its city pop-ups all around town like of course my much-loved MadSqEats and their Garment District location off of Broadway / 41st street that recently opened again for its fall series this past week. The two block or so-long space includes a long…

Casa Lever’s cocktail class will have you shakin’

Casa Lever’s cocktail class will have you shakin’

One of the better things about the blogosphere is somewhere through all of the madness, there are chances such as this where I get to indulge in the better part of the city. This time at Casa Lever on Park Ave. in the heart of…

Indulging scoop by scoop at OddFellow’s NYC

Indulging scoop by scoop at OddFellow’s NYC

If I had one wish, it would be that I could have an unlimited access card to all the ice cream shops in New York, because I’m never not Yelping the nearest place to get my scoop on. And the other day while roaming around the…

MadSqEats is back to tame the end-of-summer blues

MadSqEats is back to tame the end-of-summer blues

There are tons of ways to get your pop-up fix in the city; between Smorgasburg, Seaport, the random food trucks scattered, Coney Island, and Rockaway, what ways aren’t you eating delicious street food in every borough like the spoiled food-obsessed NYC resident you are? But hands…