food
Barbounia
Sometimes I think I’m kind of a grouch when it comes to eating. Why can’t I just enjoy a meal, especially when it’s free (as my meal at Barbounia was)? I think i often set my expectations too high. I wasn’t anticipating much when I first saw the menu at Barbounia, but [...]
Lan Cafe
I was speaking to my sister about her visit to Minneapolis when she mentioned she’d eaten vegetarian pho. I instantly became jealous — how come she could find vegetarian pho in Minnesota, while I live in freakin’ New York City and had never seen such a thing? I googled vegetarian pho in NYC [...]
Best Wurst Trip Ever
When in Berlin, eat wurst. I knew the Germans were big on their wursts but I didn’t know they were THAT crazy about them. First of all I have never seen so many sausages in one place nor have I seen so many varieties. Everywhere I went I would see people eating [...]
Al Di La
After trying a bite of the ricotta pound cake (with cranberries and orange whipped cream), Donny remarked that he thought it was “good, not great.” Although I liked this dessert a lot, “good, not great” pretty much summed up our entire dinner at Al Di La, a Park Slope neighborhood favorite.
Banh Mi Coming to Park Slope
I had heard rumors that a Vietnamese sandwich shop was coming to the former Tea Lounge space at 7th Ave and 10th St. I’m happy to see that the rumors are true. I work a mere four blocks from here — my lunch hour is about to get a whole lot better.
Top 5 Blogged Meals of 2008
I always enjoy reading Top 10 lists at the end of the year. As a writer, I enjoy posting one of my own because it allows me to be a little lazy — I’m just recycling old posts.
I restricted myself to meals I paid for, and meals that I blogged about (it may be [...]
