Category Lunch

Cafe Blossom UWS NYC - Sweet potato rolls

The best vegan restaurant in NYC…

… is Cafe Blossom on the Upper West Side.  Don’t take my word for it – Time Out New York rated Blossom – the best vegetarian restaurant in NYC two years in a row (2008 and 2009).  I know, I know – vegetarian and vegan are different, but Time Out Magazine probably does not have […]

Hoagie sandwich at Whole Foods

Now I know why it’s called a Hoagie!

I had no idea why a sandwich was called a Hoagie when I had it at Whole Foods a couple of months ago (see this post). Yesterday, while on a flight back to NYC from San Juan, Puerto Rico, I found time to catch-up on some much-needed food related reading.   “Far Flung and Well […]

An afternoon in SoHo looking for food – Part 1 – at an Asian Grocery store and restaurant

On a recent afternoon in SoHo (NYC), I was looking to get lunch at about 2 PM after wrapping up some meetings (whatever happened to brown bag lunches that day?).  I was very thrilled to see on Yelp, that a Tarallucci e Vino location was just a couple of blocks from where I was standing. […]