Here’s a handy word to know for your next vacation in Arabic-speaking lands: taboon. As in domed oven used for baking puffy flatbread. Then again, if you tend to heed State Department warnings, travel instead to Taboon at 52nd and … Read More
That room! In a city of great rooms – be they ballrooms or private clubs or soaring public spaces – there’s a special fondness for the dining rooms of New York City that are both majestic and comforting at the … Read More
Some restaurants, rare though they are, exude a kind of palate mnemonic. There you are, seated at a restaurant, when something happens to your memory, thanks to something on your palate, or perhaps the lighting, or the tables, the music … Read More
Long beloved on the Upper West Side, nearly as much for its amiability as for its fresh and innovative Mexican cuisine, Gabriela’s was well on its way to becoming an institution – when suddenly, unceremoniously, its doors on the corner … Read More
Nestled in a quiet corner of Tribeca, the restaurant Turks and Frogs (so named for its exemplary Turkish cuisine as well as the fact that the owners once sold French antiques) was not so long ago “discovered” by Daily Candy, … Read More
One redeeming joy of a hyper New York life is the discovery of an oasis of serenity amidst the maelstrom. Located at one of those threatening five-way intersections, and cater-cornered from Eighth Street, oft-referred to as Shoe Row, Gobo is … Read More
Some restaurants have such protocol that, for the uninitiated, the whole experience might be off-putting and overwhelming. Joe’s Stone Crab has a reputation. By now, most everyone in the Western world knows about the sweet stone crabs of Joe’s – … Read More
What exactly does it foretell when a striking new hotel and its in-house restaurant employ a jellyfish as their graphic symbol? Such is the query one might ponder upon entering the stunning Victor Hotel on Ocean Drive and its equally … Read More
