Within the past month, I’ve been lucky to reconnect with a chef whom I’ve long time admired.  Once manning the kitchen at his restaurant Wyanoka, then Mojo and then a slew of other oft overlooked gems (Lure, Suba) Chris Santos regained his footing in 2005 when he opened Stanton Social.  The big, boisterous Lower East [...]

Having trouble keeping up with all the latest foodie iapps?  I am! Luckily, my boyfriend reads Gizmodo.  Last week he came across this wonderful post.  The usual suspects like Yelp!, OpenTable and Epicurious are reviewed, but there are also lesser known projects worth taking note of: VegOut is a vegetarian’s guide to eating out in [...]

A few weeks ago, I enjoyed a lovely dinner hosted by The Supper Club at Greydon Carter’s Monkey Bar.  Menu, service and company were all wonderful in their own right.  Take a look at our line up.

A few nights ago at BOBO, CHef Patrick sent out two dishes that blew my face off. The first is a dish currently on the menu – Crab Dip with Fried Cornichons. A dish layered with cream cheese then cocktail sauce then flakes of numnumnummy crab. Piled alongside like Lincoln Logs was a wall of [...]

This looks good and mellow!

My Grandma Sylvia emailed this Birthday Poem to me today. I am a lucky girl.
Since I could not sleep last night
I thought I ‘d stay awake and write
a little poem for my precious Jill
Whom I  love dearly  and always will
Hope I can hang in there so we can celebrate many more
After all- what are Grandmas [...]

Taylor and I have a white board on our fridge and every few weeks we craft a picture. I usually start by drawing something like a flower doodle or something else along the lines of a 3rd grade level stick figure.  Then Taylor comes in and doctors the image up to look professional. Once I [...]

Today, one of my favorite brands opens their online shop. A whole new world of What To Wears has been revealed.

My boyfriend and I spent the month of July eating our way through Italy. We had countless three hour lunches followed by five course dinners and late night gelatos. How did we manage, you may be wondering. Espresso is the answer. This phenonenon has not quite caught on in the States, but Italians swear by [...]

When new tenants moved in across the hall from me at the beginning of August, I wanted to make friends. And so, like always when I want the make an impression, I made brownies. Two weeks later, the couple returned the Tupperware… filled with tomatoes and cheese. The orange tomatoes, I was told, came from [...]