Yes, I'm still blogging about our NYC eats even though we've been back in Tokyo for over a week now, but this is the last one. Rob's auntie arrived in New York two days before our flight back to Tokyo, so we met up with her for dinner on that Thursday. Rob and I actually had no idea where to bring her, only that it had to be somewhere downtown near ( Read more... )

After our dimsum lunch at Red Egg, we headed towards Little Italy in search of the nougat/torrone stall we encountered last time. When we couldn't see it anywhere (admittedly, we weren't looking very hard nor going very far to look for it), we decided to buy a cannoli. (Actually "cannolo" is the correct term for singular cannoli, but our NY foodie ( Read more... )

On our last weekend in NYC, we met up with Michael, whom we lunched with two times on our previous trip to NYC. We went to Red Egg, which is a rather curious name for a dimsum restaurant. A few reviews of the restaurant seem to indicate that this is a rather pricey option for dimsum, but most agree that the food is pretty good and quite authentic. ( Read more... )

I stumbled upon Wallsé while looking through the list of restaurants on OpenTable.com, a web service I use for making reservations online for NYC restaurants. Wallsé stood out to me because I've never had the opportunity to try Austrian cuisine before, and also because it is a Michelin one-star restaurant (yes, yes I know I'm a sucker for the ( Read more... )

One of Rob's colleagues is a big pork fan, and he recommended Porchetta as the best place to eat pork in NYC. This is a no-frills place specialising in Roman-style roast pork, so don't be surprised to see only ten items on its menu. There are limited seating at this tiny eatery (maybe 6 stools by the corner bar lining one wall and window, and a ( Read more... )

Okay, I admit that I'm not a burger person, yet I've managed to eat burgers three times in the last few months. Perhaps Rob likes burgers? The Shake Shack in Madison Park is touted to churn out the best burgers in NYC, and what better place than New York to try a good burger? Unfortunately, like with most things in NYC where the popular places gets ( Read more... )

We had a delicious experience at Lupa, which is one of Mario Batali's many restaurants. We have been to another of this American Iron Chef's restaurants before, but we were hoping for more than just pizza and pasta from the main course menu at Lupa (although the desserts were fantastic at Otto). This is a fairly casual restaurant, and we were given ( Read more... )

With NYC being home to the largest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, we had to have at least one proper 'Jewish' meal that consists more than a bagel. Last Sunday, we headed towards the vicinity of Chinatown in search for lunch. We were actually intending to re-visit a favourite, but on the walk there, we changed our minds to trying ( Read more... )

The first couple of days after arriving in New York city, being somewhat sleep-deprived, I really wasn't in much mood to prepare any meals. Instead we wandered around downtown near our apartment for some food.

Our first meal in town was a late lunch at a cafe called Stir Cafe that offered a large variety of sandwiches, burgers, pasta and salad. ( Read more... )

We are back in New York again, this time for only a month. After a long 12 hour flight from Tokyo, and only 5 hours sleep in a span of 52 hours (an hour's sleep was taken during the flight), I was in a bit of an exhausted zombie state after arriving in NYC around 1pm (2am in Tokyo time). I resisted having naps to help me transition to this timezone ( Read more... )