Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? At egg, a Southern-style restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, it depends on what meal you’re there for.
The place is firmly part of the laid-back hipster vibe of the new Williamsburg. Our server wore cutoff jeans and gave the impression that she just happened to find herself there, by […]

When I was in j-school in New York in the late ’90s, I heard about how Red Hook was becoming cool. On the other hand, I got the feeling it was still kind of insular — one of my classmates, a beefy guy who was doing a dual master’s degree with the school of international […]

My friend Julia has traveled around the world, but I was shocked to hear that she never really liked spicy food until she encountered the noodles in China’s Yunnan province. After a few bowls, she was sweating, but hooked. Back in New York, the specialty isn’t easy to find, which is why she was set […]

My friend Aram, a New Yorker through and through (though we grew close during the years he lived in Los Angeles), is adamant that there is no great pizza but New York pizza (nevermind that Italy place), and that in New York, there is no great pizza but Grimaldi’s. Luckily, on the evening that I […]

My friend Daveena once recounted to me a marvelous tale of an old man in a faraway land with mystical powers. He made pizzas the like of which could not be found anywhere, near or far, she said. When he passes on, she added darkly, those magical pizzas would be lost forever.
OK, so the faraway […]