Has there ever been a better time to write about food in New York? From the glitzy behemoths of the meatpacking district to the cozy neighborhood joint that serves a great sandwich, here’s my list of favorite restaurants from 2006, beginning with those places that are worth your year-end bonus.
The most anticipated opening of Read More
This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and miniskirt, chatting with customers. An ex-attorney whose father was in Read More
This is what’s missing from so many of the restaurants I’ve been to lately: the feminine touch. Donatella Arpaia is the consummate gracious hostess. Tall and striking, with a mane of streaked blond hair, she patrols the packed white-and-yellow dining room in high heels and miniskirt, chatting with customers. An ex-attorney whose father was in Read More
Last winter, Donatella Arpaia added an extra four-top to the dining room of her Upper East Side restaurant, DavidBurke & Donatella. That table will bring in $200,000 over the course of a year.
Those funds represent just a quarter of the capital for her newest restaurant, Dona, which will open on March 27. “The No. Read More
Last winter, Donatella Arpaia added an extra four-top to the dining room of her Upper East Side restaurant, DavidBurke & Donatella. That table will bring in $200,000 over the course of a year.
Those funds represent just a quarter of the capital for her newest restaurant, Dona, which will open on March 27. “The Read More
Ama, on the western tip of Soho, is nothing like the Old World Italian restaurants that have dominated this neighborhood for decades. It seems like Ama has landed here almost from another planet: On a recent visit, a stylish Upper East Side crowd packed into Ama’s sleek white dining room on Macdougal Street, just a Read More
David Burke Knows How
To Play With His Food
When I was very young, I played a practical joke on a friend who was a food snob, always carrying on about the great meals he’d had in France’s three-star restaurants (where, of course, I had never been). I bought a bag of those oily, Read More
