Category NYC

Grano Trattoria: Brunch in the West Village, NYC

Grano Trattoria is a small, warm, extremely cozy trattoria that serves delicious food that always wants you to go back there for more.  The cooking of Owner and Chef Maurizio Crescenzo, always feels as though you were eating in someone’s home.  The pizza from the wood burning oven is among the best pizzas in NYC. […]

Nunu Chocolates: Ganaches handmade in Brooklyn

Nunu Chocolates has some of the best chocolates made in NYC.  I visited the flagship store sometime back and got the booze box – ganaches infused with absinthe, sake, rye, mezcal-chili, moonshine, and amarula.  The ganaches were smooth and velvety, and one cannot miss the distinct alcohol flavor.  My favorite was the sake ganache. Alcohol infused […]

La Maison du Chocolat: Rich, dark chocolate in NYC

This is chocolate week on Not Just Vegetarian!! La Maison du Chocolat is one of my favorite places in NYC to get a cup of rich, dark chocolate!  The hot chocolate is not very thick (not as thick as the hot chocolate in Apostrophe, London), but rich and smooth, like velvet.  The best part about […]