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Well smack me with a challah and call me lucky.
It just so happened that I was staying with a friend who has a sweet next door neighbor called Say It With Flour.
Sure, the baker thought I was visiting from another country when she found out I didn’t know what a Black and White was, but […]

It was my last night of the New York and Hoboken trip, and for the first time, I duplicated a restaurant. Cynthia and I thought it would be a nice way to wrap things up. I’d be off early the next morning.
We were started off with some bread and white bean dip while we pondered […]

What trip to New York is complete without a forage for one of my favorite street foods, a hot dog. I may have just eaten a good portion of curry, but walking towards the subway there was Gray’s Papaya.
I’d walked by the place, or one of its many fruity imitators a number of times […]

I’ve only visited New York twice, with about four years inbetween. Yet both times I somehow ended up at this cafe.
Both times I was with someone who wanted a cannoli. And afterwards, both friends said, “meh.”
But that’s not Caffe Roma’s fault. That’s just a difference of expectations.

I like Caffe Roma because their pastries […]

One can hardly use the movie Dude, Where’s My Car as an accurate historical reference, but the fact that the characters banish their nemesis to Hoboken still instills the impression that this city is not a pleasant place, shibbies or not.
So imagine my surprise when I arrive in the wee hours of the morning and […]

Passing through Little Italy, and wasn’t in the mood to eat at a place heaving with people. This seemed as good as any.
The prix fixe lunch was $12.95, I got a penne with mozz, basil and eggplant to start. Moved onto the basa, a white fish in white wine sauce, and vegetables. Very filling, […]

My first night in town, where my only agenda is to eat food, and I ended up at Matsugen.
It was the mini-omakase that first caught my eye, but once I was seated, my dining companion and I opted for the regular omakase.
However…I’m confused as to why it’s called omakase. The menu of what we’d be […]

This is not the kind of place I expected to dine at during a vacation, but two very energetic and perhaps slightly tipsy hair stylists I’d just met convinced me and a friend to join them.
It was a bit scene-like, so bleh for that. The sake one stylist is used to ordering and ordinarily loves […]