I'm Mari Borgomani and this is my food blog. I like to call it a compilation of awesomeness. Enjoy.
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The 10 Best Restaurants in New York 2012
And the winners are…
If you want an espresso to go at Café Grumpy in Park Slope, you’ll have to buy a ceramic cup.
Cafe Grumpy
When some customers at the three outposts in Brooklyn and Manhattan became, well, grumpy over the lack of takeout espresso, Ms. Bell instituted a policy meant to be taken more with a wink than with the snarl of the cafe’s logo: Patrons can get an espresso to go, if they pay $12 to drink it from a porcelain cup they can keep. “People actually do that,” she said. “There’s a guy that comes in every day to Chelsea with that cup and gets espresso.”
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NYMag has an article of the best roast chicken dishes in the city. Above is the roast chicken and vegetables for two at Locanda Verde. (Link)
One of Mile End’s sandwiches is called the Beauty: gravlax, with tomatoes, onions and capers.
Photo: Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Best Falafel Sandwich in NYC
Taïm: 222 Waverly Place, New York NY 10014
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Mile End’s Ruth Wilensky sandwich is an homage to — some might say a copy of — a famous Montreal sandwich, the Wilensky’s Special: salami and mustard pressed between griddled halves of an onion roll. Asking for “no mustard” costs 10 cents extra.
Photo: Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
The pastrami comes from Dickson’s Farmstand Meat, the Chelsea Market butcher. Sandwiches are served on sheets of butcher paper placed right on the table. @ Iris Cafe
Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times
A tuna sandwich on ciabatta. Bakeri makes its own bread, simmers its own jam and even churns its own butter.
Photo: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
The buttery ham and Cheddar biscuits, which can be served with a soft-boiled egg. (Eggs, from Feather Ridge Farm in the Hudson Valley, are sold by the dozen in a tiny “store,” which is really just a cupboard and half a deli case.) The coffee is made with beans from Stumptown Coffee Roasters. @ Iris Cafe
Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times
Mile End’s bagels are brought down weekly from montreal.
Photo: Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
