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Chelsea is another one of those NYC neighborhoods that has about a bijillion restaurants so the competition is stiff. A few weeks ago, my friend Paige and I made plans to hang out after work and she took me to El Quinto Pino, a tapas place in Chelsea. Paige enticed me with “this awesome frozen lemonade gin…
Since Rene has lived in Cobble Hill for the last couple of months, I have been spending a lot of time there. I’ve always been fond of the neighborhood but now I love it even more. It’s lively yet quaint and entirely self-sufficient. There’s a ton of grocery stores, coffee shops, restaurants, boutiques and parks…
The summer of 2012 was an exciting time for me. Besides completing an amazing internship at Gothamist, I got to freelance at Martha Stewart Living magazine alongside one of my best friends. On one of my assignments, I got to assist on a photo shoot at the home of the legendary Russ & Daughters family….
On a recent weekend, I played tour guide/tourist along with a vegetarian foodie friend visiting from Boston. She came to New York armed with a list of vegetarian-friendly restaurants and Pickle Shack was one of them. The restaurant is a brainchild of Brooklyn Brine, a local brinery, and Dogfish Head brewery. It’s a modest space…
Much like afore-mentioned East Village, Smith Street in Brooklyn is an area jam-packed with restaurants. I’ve been spending a lot of time there lately so I’ve sampled quite a few and Cubana Cafe remains one of my favorites. It’s a small space that seats about 25 comfortably. It’s intimate, but not to the point where…
The East Village neighborhood in New York City spans roughly four avenues and fourteen streets, and houses within that territory hundreds of restaurants. And ‘hundreds’ is not an exaggeration. In fact, it may even be an under-estimate. It’s bound to be difficult to choose a place with such a variety available (#nycproblems) but Cafe Orlin…
