Tag: laura weiss

It's Sunday afternoon. Sandy is looming. I haul out the flashlights and batteries, consider filling up the bathtub with water. I make a mad dash to Westside Market to get a bag of chocolate chips. If the electricity

By Laura Weiss The newest Westside Market opened on Thursday on Broadway between 97th and 98th  Street, and Upper West Side food shoppers thronged the store for a first look at the produce, the prepared foods and the salad bar. The neighbors seemed mostly pleased, but being New Yorkers, they ...

By Laura Weiss Just-opened Upper West Side food specialty shop Gastronomie 491 owner Nicole Ahronee says, “People are tired of going to Zabar’s,” and that they’re eager for an alternative to the 70-plus-year old food emporium. Gastronomie 491, an upscale eat-in and take-out place, is just a few short blocks away ...

By Laura Weiss Tired of sawing through onions and watching your garlic hop around the counter? All it takes is $15 for the itinerant knife grinder, Mike Palotta, to sharpen three of your very dullest chef's knives. Mike's been helping Upper West Side home cooks keep their blades in proper ...

When Hanukkah rolls around, even non-cooks are expected to haul out the frying pan and whip up a batch of potato latkes for the gang. After all, isn’t the annual pancake-making ritual part of what makes Hanukkah so special? But even enthusiastic home cooks can grow weary of the eight-night-long ...

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 ...

By Laura Weiss With the new Upper East Side 25,000 square foot Fairway opening July 20, will Upper West Siders get Fairway envy? The new store boasts three high-speed elevators to whisk you to the second floor. No balky coughing, wheezing contraption like the conveyance in the UWS locale. The ...

June 7, 2011 Weather: Partly Cloudy, High of 86 degrees. Notices: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival runs June 16 to June 30 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. You can get tickets now! News: State Senator Tony Avella introduced a new bill to ban horse-drawn carriages in Central ...

May 25, 2011 Weather: Sunny! High of 82 degrees. Notices: West Side Rag columnist and Upper West Side author Laura Weiss is hosting a dream dinner on June 6: five courses with ice cream, including such wild couplings as Beef Carpaccio with Goat Cheese Ice Cream. How very Iron Chef ...