Several months ago, I’d written about FEED Granola, a West Village-based company run by two extremely attractive and nice guys, both named Jason. So, it was to my delight when, a few weeks ago, I bumped into them at the new Whole Foods Market on the Bowery dishing out samples and celebrating their most recent [...]

The night before the Momofuku Ssam Bar review came out in the Times, I was having a drink with two chefs who were reveling in their friends’ newly earned two stars. Their star-studded friend is Tin, the man in the kitchen who makes sure that all of Chef-Owner David Chang’s dishes are being sent out [...]

Last Year, Andrea Strong decided to use her culinary celebrity to support a great cause and this year she is at it again with the second Dining For Darfur day on Sunday, April 29th. On the 29th, participating restaurants will donate 5% of gross sales to the International Rescue Committee’s humanitarian relief efforts in Darfur [...]

The newly opened Provence is worth all of the buzz. On a recent night out with my brother, we ended up at the bar for a delicious dinner in the company of a cute bartender, a quaint ambiance, and top-notch tunes. Daft Punk and a remix of Air’s All I Need were great background while [...]

Maury Rubine’s new City Bakery, Birdbath, is a green haven. Everything, from the walls, to the shelves and floors are either made from recycled, reclaimed, organic, or energy efficient materials. The bakery offers a wide variety of goodies—all using organic ingredients from east of the Mississippi. The entire back wall of the bakery is stacked [...]

When the boys at Garber Hardware offered me practically free office space in a secret lofted clubhouse area in the back of the store, it was a dream come true-I got a work space outside of my apartment and got to move to an environment in which I could learn about various hex wrenches, bolts, [...]

Mary’s Gone Crackers crackers are the crunchiest, healthiest, most interesting crackers I’ve had.  A blend of brown rice, flax, tamari, quinoa, and sesame seeds gives these crackers a delicious texture and the evident benefit of being extremely healthy for you.  The health factor almost seems like an after thought though because the crackers are so [...]

I’m always excited to hear about another lobsta-shack opening in Manhattan. Sure, $23 lobster rolls make no sense to anyone with a down-east mentality; but then again, we are New Yorkers, and irrationality has never stopped us from doing anything. Plus, a new seafood joint is bound to alert the media and bring about the [...]

A few weeks ago I saw a brownie pan the sparked my interest. The pan, called The Edge Brownie Pan, made by The Baker’s Edge, is a maze-like pan with walls that create edges throughout the pan. The silly looking design results in each brownie square turning into a coveted edge piece. The company website [...]

If you don’t like burgers or shakes, there is one other reason to hang around the Shake Shack. Her name is Ariel. Ariel was working on assembly the day that I worked, which means that he assembled the burgers for each order (double, with cheese, no tomato, etc) while I rotated between standing next to [...]