Food Studies

  Sitting at the bar at Bonnie Vee, which I had recently wrote a less than stellar review about, I considered why I would keep (I’ve probably been there five times since I wrote it) returning to a place I felt was so mediocre at […]

Tasting Collective is a cool new company operation that comes in to restaurants on nights when they are closed and begs and pleads (and pays) the chef to create a huge multi-course meal to be served at one communal seating and served totally family style. […]

Le Turtle measured up to the hype. It also measured up to the atmospheric oddities I had previewed (on the website) and heard about. Servers were, in fact, in grey jumpsuits. Fortunately they were all young and fit and pulled them off well. The host […]

Clean Plates is a guide and company started by Jared Koch to help you lower the anxiety that menu in front of you is unhealthy, unsustainable, or generally bad. Jared Koch created company which “curates the market place, products, advice… what’s real practical changes for […]

Grace is one of my closest friends from college. She’s coming to town at a difficult time for me to see much of her (visiting from New Orleans) but I love her so much and I can never pass up an opportunity to spend time with her (even if […]

…And got two orders of Ceci e Pepe.  But let me back up. I have a friend from New Orleans who bartended in New York for more years than I have been eating solid food. He doesn’t know everyone in New York; to claim that […]