Pee-wee’s Playhouse: Miami’s Barton G. Restaurant
The Pee-wee’s Playhouse of South Beach restaurants, Barton G. The Restaurant offers the same brand of childlike delight that Pee-wee Herman afforded millions of children and adults every Saturday morning. Everything’s hyperbole. “Wow” is the only…
New World Culinary Symphony: OLA @ Sanctuary
Twenty years ago, a little-known and very young graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, opened an upscale Cuban restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida-and within months, the restaurant Yuca had established chef Douglas…
Company Restaurant: New York, New York
First of all, word may not yet have reached the owners of Co. (pronounced “Company”) that the days of 10-inch artisan pizzas for $17 are behind us. Then again, maybe economic woes have yet to impact the clusters of Chelsea fashionables who mingle in the…
OLA @ Sanctuary: Miami Beach, Florida
Twenty years ago, a little-known and very young graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, opened an upscale Cuban restaurant in Coral Gables, Florida—and within months, the restaurant Yuca had established chef Douglas…
Scarpetta at the Fontainebleau
Given the location of Scott Conant’s latest Scarpetta (the eponymous sister to his Meatpacking District dazzler) in the newly renovated Fontainebleau in Miami Beach, it’s not surprising that you enter the restaurant almost expecting paparazzi. And when,…
Cafe Blossom: New York, New York
The owners of Blossom must have a thing about doors. Or perhaps it’s feng shui. To enter the downtown outpost of Blossom, you don’t enter through the obvious door, the one adjacent to the dining room—but instead, you open the door that looks as…
Community Food & Juice: New York, New York
What else would you expect of a restaurant sandwiched between Columbia University and the Cathedral of St. the Divine except an oasis of political correctness? With those two proud bastions of liberalism as neighbors, it’s almost a certainty that…
Gazala’s Place: New York, New York
Recently voted BEST FOOD nabe in New York (by Time Out New York), Hell’s Kitchen has to be one of the most gastronomically diverse neighborhoods in the country. Each May, more than a million people wander along the mile-long smorgasbord that’s known as…