Tag: food

By Emily Baer Throngs of people turned out for the annual Winter’s Eve Festival at Lincoln Square. The unseasonable balmy late November evening began with folk legend Arlo Guthrie singing classic songs like “This Land is Your Land” and “Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer” as organizers lit the sparkling tree. It is ...

On Monday starting at 5:30 p.m., the Upper West Side will be brimming with entertainment and food for the Winter's Eve festival, a celebration put on every year by the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District. The festival starts with a Christmas tree lighting and continues for hours with musical performances, ...

Lady Gaga gave her father the best advertising a restaurant owner can possibly receive -- she mentioned his new Upper West Side restaurant to millions of people in a televised special on ABC with Katie Couric on Thursday. "My dad, it was always his dream to open a restaurant," she ...

By Laura Weiss You decide one night to make the trek to a local movie theater. You want to ditch Netflix for a change. You want to take in a film on the big screen with a humongous tub of buttery, salty popcorn at your side. But watch out junk ...

By Marjorie Cohen Get ready for some wonderful surprises when you enter the new and vastly improved New York Historical Society on 77th Street and Central Park West. After three years and $70 million dollars worth of renovations both inside and out, this venerable institution has let in the light ...

Have you been to this 16 Handles place on Amsterdam Avenue between 75th and 76th Street? It always seems to be packed. I think it's because they let people control their own froyo. The store lets you personally pump frozen yogurt into a cup or cone, mixing and matching the ...

Crumbs will be giving away 1,000 cupcakes at its brand-new location at 92nd Street and Broadway starting at 7 a.m. on Thursday. That is all you need to know. Image of new store via Crumbs.

Lady Gaga's father (Daddy Gaga?) is opening a new restaurant on 68th Street just West of Columbus Avenue called "Joanne". The spot used to house Vince and Eddie's, an Italian pre-theater

Two Korean delis have closed their doors after serving Upper West Siders for decades, part of a sad trend in the neighborhood and the city. Golden Boy Mart on Broadway between 98th and 99th Streets (above) closed recently after more than 30 years in the neighborhood. Sam Laroche, the owner ...

Eretz Kosher Market and Cafe, open since 2003, has closed its doors and the landlord has slapped a for-rent sign on the window. The restaurant was known for its schnitzel and dubbed itself the "Home of The Best Schnitzel in New York City."

There are lots of "cool" events in the neighborhood this week, but you can be cool any week. Why not let your nerd flag fly,

We have written about the Chinese food crisis on the Upper West Side -- the neighborhood, once a reliable destination for Chinese food, has fewer and fewer solid options available. But there's a new kind of crisis brewing. In the past week and a half, three Asian restaurants on the ...

The Sheriff of the Upper West Side has been awful busy lately taking care of the neighborhood's outlaws -- businesses that don't pay their rent or taxes. In the past few weeks, Sushi A-Go-Go at 1900 Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets, and Brian Deli & Food Plaza on the ...

Jumbo Pizza Coffee Shop may be a tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant, but it certainly is harboring a lot of small critters, according to a health inspector who visiited the place this week. The coffee shop on 964 Amsterdam Avenue between

Three Upper West Side restaurants are looking for workers, including Momofuku Milk Bar, Dovetail, and an exciting new restaurant that isn't expected to open for more than a month. The New York Historical Society at 77th Street and Central Park West has landed on a name for the cafe it ...

Some of the top chefs in the neighborhood served small plates, like the chopped fall salad by 'Cesca above, last night at an event called Landmark Feast. The event, held at the Museum of Natural History, was a fundraiser for Landmark West and Friends of Roosevelt Park, which takes care of ...

Before Hurricane Irene, Cascabel on Broadway at 108th Street was one of the few restaurants in the area that was open. That was also true immediately after the storm had sped north to New England. So I wound up eating there twice in two days. The tiny place was a ...

This month, we bring news of new cupcakes, novelties and outdoors goods on the Upper West Side, as well as the closing of two spots that were dear to locals

Citarella on 75th Street and Broadway used shrimp, squid and starfish to create an edible American flag in its front window today, with a sign proclaiming "September 11, We Will Never Forget."

Crepes on Columbus, a cafe and creperie at 990 C0lumbus Avenue between 108th and 109th Streets, was forced to close -- twice -- by the NYC Department of Health for health violations.