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New Restaurant Reviews: Interpretation of Dreams at Pearl & Ash; Outstanding Seafood at Kittery
Spring is ripe with surprises (80 degrees, 40 degrees, you know the drill). This week, our professional eaters explored two curveball restaurants and were pleasantly delighted–though not equally–by each. Tejal Rao appreciated the food at Pearl & Ash more than the dark and noisy space on the Bowery, while Robert Sietsema was bowled over by […]
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Olive Oil on Tap at Le Midi; Not Everything’s Awful at Bill’s Food and Drink
Tejal Rao took a break from professional eating this week, but our own Robert Sietsema kept at it by checking in at Le Midi Bistro. Located in a former East Village Woolworth’s building and karaoke den, Sietsema notes in his review of Le Midi that the restaurant “is one of those old-school bistros where the […]
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Carry a Big Steak at Midtown’s Bill’s Food and Drink; Wave Goodbye to Lesbians and Hello to Pork at the West Village’s Swine
Our own Tejal Rao reviews Bill’s Food and Drink, a “flashy John DeLucie joint.” Bill’s Food and Drink is the recently revamped former speakeasy that once held Bill’s Gay Nineties. The Midtown restaurant is “cluttered with maps, Victorian portraits, and taxidermied animal heads… it can feel like the wedding reception of a wealthy, well-connected acquaintance.” […]
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Waiter, Bring Us Our Bill’s
The runner climbs a flight of stairs with a heavy load of aged rib eyes and chickens held high above his head, avoiding a disaster a second. In the dining room, there are angry waiters on his back and hostesses cutting through without a feel for the squashed space’s rhythm. A fallen cloth napkin is […]
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Ben Scorah of Bill’s Food and Drink on Classic Cocktails, Car Bombs, and Hanky Panky
Ben Scorah is the bartender you want to introduce to your parents. The affable Brit (London-born, New York-based) helms the bar at Bill’s Food and Drink, the revamped Midtown restaurant that previously held Bill’s Gay Nineties. Scorah has such an appreciation for the history of the venue, and he works to incorporate an old world […]
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Unhatched Ducklings at Jeepney; Smoking Up Meat at BrisketTown
Our own Tejal Rao visits the East Village’s Jeepney, the latest venture from the Maharlika family, to try the unhatched duckling eggs at the “modern Filipino gastropub” in her review of Jeepney. She offers some guidelines for enjoying the small bites: “Think of the impossibly pure broth you get when you poach a whole, unroasted […]