Momofuku Noodle Bar: Columbus Circle

Momofuku Noodle bar was high on my list of places that I wanted to check out on this last trip to New York. Friends of mine from the upper east side had been banging on about David Chang’s noodle bar in the east village for ages, so I knew we just had to go I…

Sichuan Hot Pot Cuisine

Sichuan Hot Pot Cuisine is on Pell Street in NY Chinatown, we found ourselves here looking for dumplings after we had found that our old favourite the Excellent Dumpling House had closed down. To be honest we had been wandering around for about half an hour just getting more and more hungry so we just…

Red Flame Diner: Eggs, Bacon, Sausage

  The Red Flame Diner on W 44th Street in New York is one of your classic old school diners. Described by Google as your “Basic diner serving sandwiches, salads & other straightforward fare from sunup to midnight.” Their own website says “Enjoy real, home-style and gourmet food at great prices” It was pretty near…

Friedman’s at Chelsea Market: The Beer and Burger Special

Friedman’s at Chelsea Market is one of several locations that they run around the city, but this one at the market is the original that opened in 2009. Apparently Friedman’s was named after the famous economist Milton Friedman who popularized the phrase, “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch” That is a mantra…

Taipei Cafe – Great Chinese Food for lunch

Taipei Cafe is a super little Chinese Restaurant and takeout in Morrisville on Chapel Hill Road near to Park West shopping area serving all the classics and a bit more. It is located on that small strip of shops where Morrisville Post Office and the Gas station also are, just before the EarthFare supermarket The…

Wahlburgers at Fenway

OK so I admit that I had never heard of Wahlburgers! How did this happen, I must have left the country for a brief moment (not my fault it was a visa thing) and I totally missed that reality TV show that was aired from 2014. Now I did know who Mark Wahlberg was, and…

Jambalaya at Tony C’s in Somerville

We came back to Tony C’s at  for a team lunch this week while we were visiting. The last time I was here I was chowing down on one of their signature burgers “The Tony C” read more about that here Tony C’s in Somerville – the #25 Burger This time I took it as an…

Dosa N Curry in Somerville: Vegetarian and Vegan Fusion

Dosa N’ Curry in Somerville on the outskirts of Boston is a self proclaimed ‘Vegetarian Fusion’ restaurant serving ‘North Indian, South Indian, and Indo-Chinese’ food. They also apparently serve ‘Gourmet Pizza’ but we were not here for that. MASALA DOSA The Dosa was the thing to get, I mean the clue was in the name…

Tony C’s in Somerville – the #25 Burger

  Tony C’s in the Assembly Row complex was one of the places that I had spotted as a possible bar to hang at when I knew that I was going to be staying at the nearby AC Hotel by Marriott just over the mystic river. I understood that there were a fair number of…