So, it looks as though you might have to add cupcakes to the TSA 3-1-1 rules. Check out this link by way of HuffPost Travel and Newsy- wow, talk about flour power and one icy and sugary cupcake threat. Story goes that a cupcake in a metal lidded glass jar set off bells at the airport security check point though, the cake nor its creamy center were the presumed danger – the security officer deduced [...]
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I was all jazzed about my first visit to PARM, the new outpost from the folks at TORRISI ITALIAN SPECIALTIES, the next door resto with an exceptionally fine-tuned localvore-minded prix fixe menu. Lots of top-notch ingredients to the chicken parm hero, and then some: the crispy cutlets, the sauce (if not better than Nonna’s, a close second), the fresh mozzarella and basil (not in my memory of the chicken parm charm of yore), and the [...]
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A little note from FAMOUS RAYS, Greenwich Village. We got used to the the corner shop being around but we won’t miss these gloppy gooey pies. Landmark yes, but exceptional pizzeria no. Buona Sera Ray, Buona Ray. Don’t be sad though, you’re steps away from some exceptional New York pies along the MAPPETITE MILE.
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Just a matter of time before life imitates art with the Ron Swanson turkey burger on PARKS & RECREATION. Check it out by way of EATER.COM. A foul fowl concoction soon to appear at a restaurant near you?!
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Burger chains are making inroads in trying to satisfy our fast food cravings with national (and even international expansion) of local based chains. On the high-end (happy cows in green pastures and vegetarian diets) of the fast food burger spectrum (happy free grazing herds for meat and organic ingredients for sides and buns) there’s ELEVATION BURGER from Virginia and from New York SHAKE SHACK has arrived in DUBAI and BLT BURGER in HONG KONG. On [...]
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Satisfy your inner vegetarian when your by Lincoln Center at BLOSSOM DU JOUR. 165 Amsterdam Avenue between 67th & 68th Streets, Upper West Side, NYC.
From the Bavarian peeps at nearby SUPPENKUCHE, willkommen to BIERGARTEN. Have an outdoor seat (it is, after all, a beer garden) for some bratwursts and brews. 424 Octavia Boulevard, btwn Linden and Fell Streets. biergartensf.com
Head over to Cow Hollow for UMAMI, the latest star in the ever-expanding burger constellation. 2184 Union St, San Francisco. Tel. 415-440-8626 umamiburger.com
The Mission lost CONDUIT (New American food overcome by hyper-industrial designed space) and got ANOTHER MONKEY (Thai food overcome by hyper-industrial designed space). 280 Valencia Street.
MR. & MRS. MISCELLANEOUS opens in Dog Patch. Daily Candy reports on this new artisanal ice cream shop where the focus is on novelty flavors NOT organic ingredients. Why bother? Better to have an organic scoop than a chocolate encrusted pretzel peanut cone.
