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The Italian Gem of A Restaurant that Saved My NYC Wedding

How a little East Village Italian restaurant named Cucina De Peche quite literally saved my wedding The giant hanging neon fish outside indicates a time when neon was ordinary. My wife-to-be and I had stumbled upon it in our first year in the City, when every weekend and a number of weeknights were spent in…

How I Found Love and Calamari in Barcelona

Loving a boyfriend and a hidden hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Girona, Spain. He said I sounded Mexican. Thank you?Not sure if that was a compliment or not.Actually, I took it as a compliment.Just means I knew enough Spanish to converse with him in the first place.Why I’ve internalized this moment from the very…

5 Days in Downtown Ithaca With No Car and a Newborn Baby

(You May Have Heard Ithaca is Gorges) In case you missed the message from the Ithaca Visitors’ Bureau, yes, there are a lot of gorges around here, and yes, the area is gorgeous (GET IT?????).It’s also a fairly progressive haven in the middle of right-wing gun country. And it’s also seemingly a magnet for white…

A Day Grows in Red Hook

Including, but certainly not limited to, eating at a restaurant owned by a former dominatrix and listening to bluegrass jam sessions. My tour of Red Hook, if you should ever join me, does not begin in Red Hook.Instead, it begins across the BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) in the lovely little neighborhood of Carroll Gardens (a…

La Morada in the South Bronx Serves Some Delicious Oaxacan Food

New Yorkers love to whine about the Mexican food here. I sorta understand why: Chipotle and Qdoba easily sell more burritos — which, incidentally, were pretty much invented in California — than every other Mexican restaurant in Manhattan put together.Don’t get me wrong: I like a good Chipotle burrito as much as the next guy.But I love…

Vegan Pizza Done Right in NYC

Chef Matthew Kenney’s most recent vegan venture (which opened earlier this year) tackles an oft poorly developed concept: vegan pizza. However, like his signature layered vegan lasagna from his now closed Pure Food & Wine (which was often imitated by vegan restaurants around the city but never quite successfully duplicated), he’s continued on his journey…

FOUND: An Awesome Rooftop Bar in Edgewater (yes, Edgewater)

Edgewater, a lakefront neighborhood in North Chicago, might have plenty of beaches and the best ethic restaurants and grocery stores in the entire city.When it comes to the bar scene, however, thereʼs not much to choose from. Sure, there are a few dive bars with the usual assortment of bland domestic beer and the occasional…

Cheese, Please! Go Here for Authentic Raclette in NYC

I had my doubts on how legit a raclette could be if made outside of Switzerland, especially after a few recent let downs around NYC (for the record, one glop of melted cheese on a plate is NOT true raclette). But I figured a restaurant named “Raclette” was the best chance I had at getting…