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We recently met some friends at Braeburn for an enjoyable birthday brunch.  It was a sunny day, there was a table big enough for all of us, we weren’t being hurried, the conversation was good.  A very nice time.  I wish I could say that I loved the food.
The vibe I get from reading through Braeburn’s [...]

I moved into the neighborhood early last year.  It was then not long before I found Sal & Carmine’s pizza.  Tucked away in a nondescript storefront on the West side of Broadway between 101st and 102nd Streets, and no more than ten feet wide, it is easy to miss.  And miss it I did.  Until our [...]

The Toy Industry Association’s Toy Fair 2010 was just at New York’s Javitz center.  As the show was open during President’s Day I had the opportunity to run through it unfettered by babies or schedule conflicts.  I have been to many design fairs over the years but this was my first Toy Fair.  I was not [...]

I just last weekend went with some friends to the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.  I hadn’t been there in several years so when I received their invitation I figured it was high time I went for another run-through.  In retrospect… my time would have been better spent doing something else.  With the friends of course.
I [...]

I just ate lunch at the newest location of ‘Five Napkin Burger’ on the Upper West Side.  I had the mini boss along so I was a little worried that I could actually pull it off without him becoming belligerent and causing a scene.  Causing a scene?!  What was I worried about?  I mean, really, what constitutes a [...]

Here is the situation…  The boss went to school in Scotland.  Therefore she, being then still impressionable and un-worldly, developed a fondness for Scottish food (bless her heart).  Now… the Scots have never been especially known for their culinary prowess.  When the Scots and the Gauls parted evolutionary ways one group took their swords and [...]

As I have mentioned before, I think that Restaurant Weekdinners can go one of two ways.  One angle is that the restaurant treats it like a simple PR event, cobbling together a cheap menu so that they can have their name included on the Restaurant Week list and in all of the press coverage for as [...]

What a drag.  My glacial-paced quest for homemade pizza to rival the best in the business has suffered a set back.  As you may know I have been slowly working on trying to find pizza dough nirvana.  The mystical combination of the right dough recipe in concert with the right oven situation and technique.  Made with the [...]

Last week was the Spiring 2010 show of the New York International Gift Fair.  We did not have a booth this time but I went anyway for a quick survey of the current state of affairs. 
Unfortunately I was at the Gift Fair for only a short time.  And I was carrying a baby.  Why?  Well [...]

Restaurant Week here in New York always brings with it a dilemma.  The dilemma is this:  Should the reduced price meals served during the Restaurant Week promotion be considered a fair representation of a restaurant’s offerings upon which to draw conclusions about it?  Or could the pricing restrictions be seen as too confining in terms of ingredients and [...]