Two crispy-edged, fluffy on the inside, plate-size pancakes studded with slices of ripe banana and topped with mixed candied nuts and a melting river of whipped banana brown sugar butter!  Syrup is superfluous.  If you want to avoid the $21 price tag, you’ll find the recipe for this decadence in the thumbnails below.  Let us [...]

Posted in MANHATTAN, MIDTOWN WEST, Norma's 8 Comments »

The Executive Chef, Nick Anderer, he knows how to do it.  Dana, my waiter, he knows how to do it too.  Even the cute barista (yes, Maialino has actual baristas) knows how to do it, as the feathery heart she shaped into my cappuccino foam proves.  “It” is a microcosm of the Danny Meyer brand; [...]

Posted in MANHATTAN, MURRAY HILL/GRAMERCY, Maialino 9 Comments »

Sinful food photos are what make a NYC Food Guy review but I have so many waiting in the wings, the real sin would be not sharing them with you, my hungry readers.  Cue the gratuitous food porn…
There’s not much left to say about Momofuku Noodle Bar.  All NYC Food Guy can reluctantly add is [...]

Posted in EAST VILLAGE, MANHATTAN, Momofuku Noodle Bar 14 Comments »

If you like doughnuts at all, then you haven’t lived until you’ve made the pilgrimage to Doughnut Plant, the holy land of sugar-coated fried dough in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.  And like any cultish New York City institution, the lines can be long and the hours can be short but if you manage to secure [...]

Posted in Doughnut Plant, LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN 11 Comments »