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Rider, Brooklyn

American Cuisine food Neighborhood New York restaurants restaurants Williamsburg April 12, 2018

I don’t get over to Williamsburg as much as I used to, so when I do, I almost always go someplace I haven’t tried before. In this case we were going to a show and wanted a quick but delicious meal beforehand. Rider, the restaurant that adjoins the National Sawdust concert hall, fit the bill: it’s a casual but chic seasonal restaurant by chef Patrick Connolly, who won a James Beard award in Chicago before decamping to NYC. (more…)

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Loring Place, NYC

American Cuisine food Greenwich Village Neighborhood New York restaurants restaurants April 5, 2018

As much as I like checking out new restaurants, at a certain point the frenzy becomes a little ridiculous – thus the lack of restaurant reviews here for a while. Is a restaurant really at its best the split second that it opens its doors, and then just something to be discarded in six months or so after when everyone goes chasing the next new thing? Is it worth waiting in the rain outside because even the bar area is “for reservations only” or frantically refreshing your browser two weeks in advance just for a stupid 6pm time slot on a Monday? If you have a little more patience, it’s worth waiting until after the ravenous herds move out, however, because guess what? A lot of the time the restaurant is still good after six months, maybe even better.

Case in point: Loring Place, which is a neighborhood restaurant for me, and I feel very lucky to have it nearby. Sure, I miss Pat Field’s and all the crazy shoe stores and head shops that used to line this stretch of Eighth Street, but this and other excellent-quality restaurants arriving on the block is something I will happily embrace.

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