Category: Restaurant Reviews

  • A Tale of Two Meals: Profile of New Sichuan Restaurant, Hui

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    Emily Atlas and Donna Tallent Emily Atlas: Donna and I recently met at a Natural Selections interest meeting and learned that we both love food and exploring the various food options of the Upper East Side and beyond. Although some friends have told me that the Upper East Side has limited interesting food options, in…

  • Nessa Noms: Flip Sigi

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      Vanessa J. Wu   Flip Sigi has been a long time coming. This Filipino taqueria is headed by Chef Jordan Andino who was born in Canada, grew up in California. He takes inspiration from his Filipino grandmother and draws on skills from the time he spent working in fine dining.   Jordan’s first restaurant…

  • Nessa Noms: Paku Pakus

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        Vanessa J Wu* download Paku Pakus is a new ramen restaurant on 2nd Avenue, between 72nd and 73rd Streets. It is right off the 72nd Street stop on the Q line and opened on Monday, October 23. The restaurant is the culmination of two sisters’ love of food and Japan, modified to fit…

  • Dominique Ansel Nominated Best Pastry Chef in the World: A Cronut Comeback?

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      Juliette Wipf Who hasn’t heard of the famed 2013 food the Cronut? After quickly gaining worldwide attention, Cronut followers were soon considered frivolous, and the pastry over-hyped. TIME magazine naming the pastry one of the 25 best inventions of the year in 2013, can be a particularly bittersweet pill for us scientists to swallow.…

  • De Gustibus: The Bird’s the Word

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    By Mark Rinaldi If you’ve never had occasion to enjoy the marvel that is Japanese yakitori, I’ll break it down for you: wooden sticks are stuck through bits of chicken, and then those bits are grilled over coals. Simple, right? Not so fast–there’s a bit more to authentic yakitori. The grilling medium absolutely must be…