34 Downing Street off Bedford 212/691.0404 $86 for two with four beers and a glass of wine, with tip ♥ ♥ ♥ So there’s Blue Ribbon Sushi and Blue Ribbon Brasserie on Sullivan; the Blue Ribbon Bakery on Bedford and Blue Ribbon Market around the corner. Of course, there’s the other brasserie in Brooklyn. I ...
222 Lafayette Street between Spring and Broome Streets 212/343.3236 $90 for three with Birch beer and two glasses of sparkling wine, without tip ♥ ♥ Ed McFarland, another Pearl Oyster Bar graduate, has opened up his own seafood restaurant and rawbar. (Ex Pearl partner, Mary, left to open Mary’s Fish Camp.) The location is great ...
747 Saint Nicholas Avenue between 146th and 147th Streets 212/491.5518 $12 for two fish and chips, take-away ♥ Harlem is far away from England, but Devin’s fish and chips come close to a good snack on a lazy and gloomy weekend afternoon. For $6, you can eat or take away three pieces of lightly breaded ...
1569 Lexington Avenue off 100th Street 212/348.0200 $25 for two, without drinks, without tip ♥ For brunch one Sunday, we took the bus to the east side of Harlem and sat at the bar of Food. We watched ice skating on one TV and that weird game of stone and broom called curling on the ...
227 Tenth Avenue off 23rd Street 212/242.1122 $102 for two, with three beers, without tip ♥ ♥ The red and white wooden paneling didn’t fit the stereotypical Chelsea mold. The laid-back staff made me completely forget I was in New York City. It was a Friday night and all the tables were booked but the ...