Triumph Brewery – Princeton New Jersey

  There is something special about taking a friend to a place you know that they will love for the first time and no trip to Princeton would be complete without a visit to the Triumph Brewery.  That was my pleasure last week, I had sold Triumph on the basis that it was a brew…

Bagel Nosh – East Windsor New Jersey

OK I admit that this post is a total indulgence. When I lived and worked in New Jersey this was my best lunch and breakfast option, whether it was a breakfast sandwich, a club sandwich at lunch or a salad when I was on Atkins, Bagel Nosh supplied them all. I doubt any readers will…

M&M world in Times Square – Take out

Inspiration or enthusiam arrives in many strange ways. After two hours searching the remote for my UK DVD player it was finally located under the piles of menus and flyers for unwritten blog entries that I have been putting off for the last few weeks, and in that pile was the remnants of the Christmas…

CHaRLITo’s CoCINa – “Scratch Cooking and Charcuterie”

I bumped into Charlito’s Cocina at the Columbus Christmas Market on a pre-xmas shopping trip to New York. Hidden away amongst the stalls selling beads, fancy jewellery, and scented candles, Charles Wekselbaum stood with his small board of little charcuterie treats. Other market browsers passed him by, but I was straight in there. There were some…

Nathan’s Hot Dogs at Coney Island

If you like the occasional hot dog then no trip to New York woud be complete without a trip to the mecca of Nathan’s original hot dogs in Brooklyn at Coney Island  on the corner of  Surf and Stillwell Avenue opposite the Coney Island Subway stop. It is not just the history of the place that has…

“A Salt and Battery” – English Chippy in New York

For an expat Englishman there is a constant search for good fish and chips, not just abroad but in the UK also.  Some surveys will claim that Curry is the number one takeaway in the UK these days, but ignore that it is Fish and Chips, and that is what we seek and crave when overseas….

Excellent Dumpling House

OK so it is a bit of a stretch on the El Stop Food Hunt project, but if one accepts that both O’Hare and Midway are stops on the elevated railway then if I fly from there to somewhere else, such as say New York I am still eating along the El (yes big stretch,…