Per Se

22. October 2008 American, Midtown 0
4th floor of the Time Warner Center, 10 Columbus Circle at 60th Street 212/823.9335 $900 for two, with drinks, with extra tip apart from the included service fee ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ As soon as our waiter brought out a footstool for my purse so that I didn’t have to put it down on the ...

All You Can Eat Sushi for $20 at Sushiya

15. October 2008 East Village, Japanese 2
Second floor, Whole Foods Market 95 East Houston Street corner of Bowery $20 all you can eat sushi, without tip ♥ I didn’t expect high quality sushi when I saw the sign for all you can eat sushi for $20 at Whole Foods on Bowery, but I was curious enough to pull two co-workers with ...

Porchetta

26. September 2008 American, East Village 1
110 East 7th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A 212/777.2151 $9 for a pork sandwich, without tip ♥ For Italians, porchetta means boneless pork roast that’s moist and juicy. Chef and co-owner Sara Jenkins doesn’t stray away from that definition: my $9 pork was no joke. The meat was shiny; its own fat glistening ...

Momofuku Ko

10. September 2008 American, East Village, Japanese, Korean 0
163 First Avenue off 10th Street https://reservations.momofuku.com/ about $300 for two, with beverage pairings, without tip ♥ ♥ ♥ I was so busy at work last week that I didn’t even have time to be excited about our upcoming reservations at Ko. When Cameron told me she wanted to take me out to thank me ...

Brick Lane Curry House

03. September 2008 East Village, Indian + South Asian 0
306-308 East 6th Street on Second Avenue 212/979.8787 about $200 for five, without drinks, without tip ♥ I’ve never heard of phaal until it made the Omnivore’s Hundred from verygoodtaste.co.uk. From that site’s must-eat list, I checked off 75 items that I’ve tasted and eaten. Among the other 25 is phaal, or phall, a South ...