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23 Jun I BRAKE FOR BAKES: VIA CAROTA

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Yes, you can have an amazing plate of pasta and, if it's season a bright and angular salad of escarole, fava beans, pecorino, mint and basil, and leave Via Carota completely sated.  But if you did you'd be missing out on what could be the...

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20 Jul The MAPPETITE MILE: On the Cape….

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Their approach slowed as tourists beckoned them for photo-ops to which the hat-clad duo agreed.  I was new to these environs but my friend, a resident for years, turned from the table and said "oh, here come the Hat Sisters" and minutes later two towering...

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02 Dec The MAPPETITE MILE: XMAS, FIFTH AVENUE STYLE

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Ah, Fifth Avenue in December: all the beautiful decorations, the shopping, the holiday cheer. Oh, and, don't forget the tourist crowds - lots and lots of them. Welcome to Christmastime in New York City. No doubts about it, with so much hustle-bustle you'll work up a...

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17 Jun The MAPPETITE MILE: BOROUGH MARKET

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Any doubts on how a localvore will make do in cosmopolitan London will quickly disappear at the food extravaganza that is BOROUGH MARKET. Along with a handful of restaurants and shops nestled under the archways of this centuries old market there's an amazing array of food,...

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05 Apr The MAPPETITE MILE: HUDSON STREET

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When thinking about small town USA, New York City is not the first place that comes to mind. However, if you go a bit beyond its main grid and squint ever so slightly, the stretch of Hudson Street running through the West Village is more...

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27 Nov The MAPPETITE MILE: AROUND RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

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For a time the best thing about Philadelphia was New York.  Well unbuckle your seat belts for a stop in these colonial environs – in the world of the arts, design and dines the city of Brotherly Love is making a revolutionary comeback. WALKSEE There’s no shortage...

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01 Oct The MAPPETITE MILE: WANDERING NOMAD

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Broadway:  bright lights, big box retailers and don't forget the tourists, and plenty of them. Not your ideal for a city stroll? Then skip over Broadway's crowded sidewalks in Midtown and Soho and head to NoMAD, the quadrant of blocks North of MADison Square Park. WALKSEE Herald...

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17 Aug The MAPPETITE MILE: AMSTERDAM TO THE NINES

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In Amsterdam"s city centre, turn off the tourist thoroughfare that is the Leidsestraat to take your time in the "Nines".  You"re in for a game of engagement with the board-of-sorts formed by the 9 streets connecting the Prinsengracht, Keizerstraat,  Herengracht and Singel canals.  Tic-tac toe?...

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06 Aug THE MAPPETITE MILE: ON TO MARYLEBONE

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Oxford Street, the old one that is, packs in Olympic shoppers even on non-Olympic summer days. This year on this high street of high streets that stretches from the Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road, the very black-clad burqa gals from steamy-hot Middle Eastern lands...

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09 Jul THE MAPPETITE MILE: AROUND SLOANE SQUARE

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Sir Hans Sloane, botanist, collector of curiosities and physician. Sir Hans Sloane, land baron and aristocrat.  The former is represented by a legacy to the British and Natural History museums, the latter by all the Sloanes: Square, Street and Gardens and, all the Hans': Street,...

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02 Jul THE MAPPETITE MILE: WELCOME TO BERMONDSEY, BABY!

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  [caption id="attachment_2511" align="aligncenter" width="150"] A Graffiti Critter Hangs On Bermondsey Street[/caption] After some sketchy decades gentrification is inching away at the East End. While a pervasive cool has enveloped Shoreditch and Hoxton north of the River Thames, winds are now drifting south.  Can't find your way? ...

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15 Mar The MAPPETITE MILE: SOME SOHO SPUNTINO

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These Italian snacks smack with flavor. Hit this Soho spot for vintage industrial meets diner style with its simple counter and wood-topped bar stools. All very pleasant but that's all just scenery for top notch small plates that come with a big bite....

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17 Jan The MAPPETITE MILE: BEYOND PORTOBELLO ROAD

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No trip too long for the real PASTEL DE NATA or, in English speaks, a Portuguese custard filled pastry cup. A ten minute walk past the northern reaches of Portobello Road and you end up at the GOLBORNE Road street market. Among a handful of...

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13 Jan The MAPPETITE MILE: CHRISTOPHER STREET NYC

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A lot has changed from 1980s Christopher Street when the strip was a magnet for the then marginalized gay community. At that time, the bars, fetishist and fashion shops catering to homo-culture dominated the drag between Hudson Street and Greenwich Avenue. Eating was an afterthought...

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02 Jun The MAPPETITE MILE: A Belgian in the Tenderloin

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Hard to survive on the gritty grid of the Tenderloin by the Civic Center. The short-lived kiosk of  WAFFLE MANIA (gosh we wish they had could come up with a better name) is a prime reason why sweet things struggle to survive in these sour,...

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20 May The MAPPETITE MILE: DOWNTOWN DOWNSTAIRS?

Posted at 22:26h in Midtown, New York City, The MAPPETITE Mile by admin 0 Comments
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Cool kid chef David Chang gets a toehold in Midtown environs - a marked departure from his culinary fiefdom in New York's East Village. Head down 24 steps and you're in the cavernous sub-subterranean dining room of MA PECHE, the newest outpost in the MOMOFUKU food...

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04 May The MAPPETITE MILE: THREE PIES TO TRY

Posted at 18:32h in Greenwich village, Italian, New York City, Pizza, The MAPPETITE Mile by admin 0 Comments
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It's a funny street, Bleecker Street.  It begins almost as if an after thought by city planners who had to balance out the grid where 8th Avenue starts. Heading east (with a slight southerly pull) the charmed building stock houses a spectrum of uber chic...

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15 Apr The MAPPETITE MILE: A HERO TO REMEMBER

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25 Mar The MAPPETITE MILE: ON BOARD FOR NO. 7 SUB

Posted at 18:03h in Brooklyn, New York City, Sandwich, The MAPPETITE Mile by admin 1 Comment
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Around the corner from the buzz of the coolster Ace Hotel is No. 7 Sub, a sandwich shop on a mission - along with its submarine logo the darkly stylized counter set-up has the look of food chain aspirations. Though the artisanal-minded fills tasted real...

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