On our recent Labor Day vacation to California, Chris took me to his favorite pizza restaurant by his house: the Pizza Box in Milpitas. The place is in a strip mall (apparently strip malls are all the rage in Northern California) and it’s slightly run down (and by slightly, I mean it looks like we […]
After hearing great reviews about the Little Owl, a small restaurant in the West Village that sits below the apartment used in Friends, Chris and I decided to check it out. Does this place look familiar?: I read that you can have the perfect meal at The Little Owl; the host is attentive and gracious, […]
One of the many staples of my diet is pasta (also included: watermelon, mangoes, apples, peanut butter, potatoes, steak, and Pinkberry). I love making pasta at home topped with Whole Foods’ basic marinara, some bell peppers, and a little Italian sausage. When I don’t feel like cooking, I’d like to have a restaurant to fall […]
Zabar’s is a large grocery store on the Upper West Side that offers a ton of free samples ALL the time. Next door is a small shop serving sandwiches, soups, and frozen yogurts. Being a lover of frozen yogurts, I had to be adventurous and try out their plain yogurt when I trekked over to […]
Kenka, one of the many Japanese restaurants along St. Marks in the East Village, looks like a hole-in-the-wall type of restaurant when you walk by: Chris and I went during the winter and didn’t find the food to be anything special (I had the salmon belly and Chris had a combination platter – both were […]
