Category Cuisine

Lao Dong Bei

This is my first post about a restaurant in Queens.  I went to Lao Dong Bei, in Flushing (Queens) for lunch on the suggestion of a fellow food blogger, Restaurant Fairy.  She brought along another friend who spoke Mandarin, heeding the advice of Ligaya Mishan who wrote about Lao Dong Bei for the NY Times. […]

Amazing Fatoush salad at Tanoreen NYC

A friend of mine suggested that we have lunch at Tanoreen – a Middle Eastern restaurant with Mediterranean aromas (says the restaurant’s website) in Bay Ridge (Brooklyn).  Bay Ridge is an hour’s commute from midtown Manhattan but felt totally worth it after my lunch there on a recent afternoon. I loved the food at Tanoreen. […]

Pumpernickel bread with smoked salmon at Cafe Champignon

Have you ever had pumpernickel bread?  I had not had pumpernickel bread until the day I had lunch with a friend and ordered a sandwich with smoked salmon on pumpernickel bread.  Since that day, I am an avid pumpernickel bread lover.  Why did I not try this bread all these years?  I assumed that this […]