If you love traveling to New York and want to get a little more out of it, take Carlos Beraza’s lead and open a restaurant.  That’s what the Mexico City native did, along with two friends, when they opened La Lucha two weeks ago on Avenue A between 9th and 10th Street.  Their business card [...]

Posted in EAST VILLAGE, La Lucha Taqueria, MANHATTAN 10 Comments »

The owners of Spanish tapas restaurants Sala Bowery & Sala One Nine have focused their attention stateside with the opening of Rye House, a modern bar offering craft beers, house-made rye whiskey, well-crafted cocktails and a menu of casual American fare centered around NYC’s first homage to the legendary meat, cheese, french fry, and cole [...]

Posted in FLATIRON/UNION SQUARE, MANHATTAN, Rye House 4 Comments »

Often overlooked Murray Hill grease pit Ziggiz, former home to NYC Food Guy’s favorite fries, has officially boarded up and gone out of business. Not a surprising turn of events considering Ziggiz signed their own death warrant back in June, shortening hours of operation to 10PM, thereby eradicating the core of their business: late night [...]

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Just when you thought the burger frenzy had calmed, Bill’s Bar & Burger hits the scene about a month ago garnering Shake Shake comparisons and “best” burger praise from A Hamburger Today, Ed Levine at Serious Eats, Josh Ozersky (RIP Feedbag), and Rob and Robin at NYMag. Bill’s, the brainchild of Stephen [...]

Posted in Bill's Bar & Burger, MANHATTAN, MEATPACKING 3 Comments »

You didn’t think NYC Food Guy could stay away for this long, did you? I didn’t either, but here we are, more than four months since the last review.  A complete change of schedule at my day job gave me a life beyond eating for the first time in three years and unfortunately the blog [...]

Posted in Lan Sheng Szechuan, MANHATTAN, MIDTOWN WEST 17 Comments »