Huarache from the Martinez Truck on the corner of Clinton St. & Bay St.
It’s time, eaters.  The Red Hook Food Vendors open for business tomorrow (Saturday) at 10AM.  NYC Food Guy implores you to check it out for one of three reasons:

You love Central American food (Mexico, El Salvador, Dominican Republic)
You love feasting for under [...]

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Airy, egg-glazed buns filled with tiny chunks of sweet roast pork for just 80 cents 90 cents each? In Midtown?? How can you go wrong? Well, Ying Du’s cleanliness isn’t exactly confidence-instilling (it’s been DOH’d several times), but what can you expect from a place pulled right out of Chinatown and placed mere blocks [...]

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Photo courtesy of Harlem + Bespoke
In a phone conversation Thursday, Nick Tsoulos, owner of Patsy’s Pizza, NYC Food Guy-favorite Angelo’s Pizza and Goodburger, revealed that he will be opening Mel’s Burger Bar at 2850 Broadway b/t 110-111 Street in mid-June or early July.  The menu will feature four to five burgers made of LaFrieda meat [...]

Posted in MANHATTAN, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, Mel's Burger Bar 6 Comments »

Brian De Palma has Scarface.  Jimi Hendrix had “All Along the Watchtower.”  And Daniel Holzman has his meatballs.    Remaking a classic is never easy, but when it’s done right, it’s so sweet you forget there was ever an original version.  This is the case with Holzman’s spicy pork meatballs (4 for $7) at his [...]

Posted in LOWER EAST SIDE, MANHATTAN, The Meatball Shop 7 Comments »

Hester Street Fair opened its gates Saturday reviving a tradition of Hester Street vendors dating back to the late 1800s.  And while knishes and fresh fish have been replaced by Sigmund Pretzelshop and Luke’s Lobster roll, Brooklyn-based Mile End made sure there was still some bagels and lox.  Staying true to it’s melting pot roots, [...]

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Is there anything better than ice cream? Truly, is there any dessert that satisfies more consistently than ice cream? It’s an iconic dessert; Two lovers sharing a milkshake is pure Americana.  A child with more ice cream on his or her face, shirt, hands, and pants than in their mouth is an image that defines [...]

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The Artichoke boys have done it again, this time in the form of dessert.  But it’s not the fried balls of dough they’re pushing at the namesake Led Zeppole, it’s the Cookies and Cream Italian Ices which are now NYC Food Guy’s favorite late night dessert. Led Zeppole’s house made “cream ice” ($2.50 small/$3.50 large) [...]

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Fresh off the news that the Red Hook Food Vendors will open May 1st, Cesar Fuentes, Executive Director of the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park, tells NYC Food Guy that he and two partners have signed a lease for an open-air space on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook’s main drag.  They’re calling it [...]

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Puebla Mexican Food & Coffee Shop specializes in cheap, authentic Puebla Mexican food.  Appropriately, the best dish may be the $8.50 chicken mole poblano platter, which is big enough to provide dinner for two days.  But if you’re willing to sacrifice atmosphere and an overt sense of cleanliness for breakfast as well as dinner, Puebla [...]

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If there’s one thing in the food world that I feel secure assessing, it’s burgers.  And when a James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year Award winner begins offering just 30 burgers per night, starting at midnight, I can’t help but get a little excited.  Well the bigger they are, the harder they fall [...]

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This new weekly feature will focus on NYC Food Guy’s single best bite of the week. Tell everyone what your best bite of the week was in the comments section.

Thank you Pichet Ong.  Thank you for being willing to take risks when it comes to dessert.  And thank you for constantly reinventing [...]

Posted in MANHATTAN, SOHO, Village Tart 2 Comments »

While it’s too soon to give Keith McNally and Nate Appleman’s Pulino’s a full review, it’s not too soon to tell you that the Salsiccia ($9/$17) breakfast pizza will have me coming back for more.  A runny egg unites smokey bacon, still bubbling in its own fat, with sweet, spicy house-made sausage and slightly sharp [...]

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Disco Frites? Fiery and crisp Korean fried chicken?  Buffalo chicken pizza topped with bleu cheese?  This sounds more like the menu of The Collective than some of the new additions to Citi Field.  After a comprehensive Citi Field food preview in 2009, NYC Food Guy reunites with SNY’s Ted Berg for a taste of what’s [...]

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This new weekly feature will focus on NYC Food Guy’s single best bite of the week. Tell everyone what your best bite of the week was in the comments section.
I’m a tingling taste bud.  Different directions of delicious flavor and texture are sending me into a frenzy.  Crispy-edge house made bow tie noodles fold [...]

Posted in ABC Kitchen, FLATIRON/UNION SQUARE, MANHATTAN 4 Comments »