LA Market by Kerry Simon shares the floor with the luxurious Ritz Carlton Residences in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. With neighbors such as Staple Center and Nokia Theatre, this modern neon lit restaurant is the perfect spot for a pre-Laker game happy hour or an upscale dinner with friends before a concert. Chef [...]

Bon Appétit & Belvedere Vodka Grub Crawl–Los Angeles brought us on an interactive food tour at the intersection of fame, fortune, and flavor. We savored food, hung with the most influential chefs, got your hands dirty, rolled up your sleeves, and went behind the scenes of the kitchen—with the chefs—to see where the magic happens. [...]

Gordon Ramsay may best be known for his hot headed television series Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares that has aired in America and Britain but before all of his television fame he cut his teeth at Aubergine gaining 2 Michelin stars and then turned heads by opening up his first restaurant in Chelsea, Restaurant Gordon [...]

The Orchard House is a vibrant new dining destination and neighborhood hangout paying homage to the historic LES, featuring a fresh brand of contemporary American plates and hand-crafted cocktails that take a cue from the classics. A variety of Savory share plates, assorted cheeses and charcuterie dishes prepared along with some of our house favorites [...]

Wall Street is more than a movie, it’s a street in a district well known for being home to the world’s largest stock exchange.  Oh really? I ocasionally go there to drink and escape the other more paralyzing areas of Manhattan, otherwise known as Midtown.  Sometimes I even eat, like tonight. I decided to make [...]

Hidden in the center of Tribeca, Zutto brings some interesting twists to traditional Japanese cuisine. The space has a way of making you feel immediately welcome, with high ceilings and exposed-brick walls and heavy wooden furnishing, including a massive communal table, that makes it feel at once rustic and refined. The menu is ideal for [...]

Straddling the line between hip and warmly traditional, Il Tesoro is the first New York City property from restaurateur and chef A.J. Black. Located on the Upper East Side at 82nd street and First Avenue, the restaurant offers an ambiance and menu that manages to be at once familiar but full of surprises—a style Black [...]

Just off Fulton St. in Clinton Hill is an intimate restaurant perfect for a date or catching up with good friends. The Hill Café has a speakeasy feel, with its exposed brick wall, candlelight and wooden tables, but none of the pretention. A backlit bar sits in the center of the restaurant offering all the [...]

There is something so expressive about Mediterranean cuisine. Plump purple olives and creamy feta drizzled with olive oil; grilled fish spiked with thyme; sea evoking salty anchovies; a glass of chilled Turkish or Greek wine all come to mind. It’s the taste of summer nights and warm breezes fragrant with jasmine and roses. A tree filled [...]

It came as no surprise when the highly popular 1917 institution Café Des Artistes shuttered its doors in 2009. Made famous by artists, musicians and celebrities from a bygone era it had been falling into a state of disrepair for several years. Although the murals of naked nymphs drawn by Howard Chandler Christy remained the [...]

I’ll start by generally stating that i’ve never quite been as excited to share my experiences as i am after meeting Chef Gray Kunz and dining at the Cafe Gray Deluxe. With Cafe Gray in New York doing respectfully well, Chef Gray Kunz has taken the foodies by storm with his newest venture Cafe Gray [...]

Valentine’s Day is one of the biggest restaurant evenings of the year. Many of us scramble around for last minute ideas and gifts, and panic whether or not we have made the evening special enough for our significant other. We’ve being seeing red for weeks, in every mall, card shop, and local drug store, and [...]

The dynamic culinary team behind Sherbourne, lead by Executive Chef Keven Alan Lee, has curated a familiar menu consisting of classic rustic American cuisine utilizing fresh, locally-grown produce and ingredients. Sherbourne is the first restaurant in Los Angeles to feature a whipped potato bar where guests can choose from 3 types of whipped potatoes as [...]

For too long, the Arepa has been one of the lesser-known Latin American staples in New York City. Caracas, a hit restaurant in the East Village and now with a location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (not to mention another location in Rockaway), is doing much to change this. Staying true to the street-food roots of the [...]

Indian food is poised for its moment in New York—bright flavors, regional diversity, phenomenal value—and there’s no better place to sample its appeal than where it all began: Saravanaa Bhavan, now open on the Upper West Side. Since 1981, the restaurant’s India-based locations have charmed native palates in Chennai, Delhi, Vellore and beyond; since 2005, [...]