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Restaurant Week: Your Recommendations, Your Warnings

I had an awesome restaurant week lunch at Esca yesterday. They even had crudo on the restaurant week menu, which was predictably delicious. Then I had crispy flounder with roast vegetables in a cider vinaigrette and a goat cheese crostata with citrus fruit slices. $24? You can't beat it.

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Corsino Cantina: The Quintessential Neighborhood Italian Spot?

@gargupie, I would try the original 'ino for breakfast. get the truffled egg toast.

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Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Our apologies, Donnadw. Carey is Serious Eats New York editor Carey Jones. And she does have strong feelings about Cleaving, which I hope we will share with you in the near future.

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Poll: What's Your Favorite Kind of Pie?

this is so tough. I would say a perfect piece of double-crusted peach pie.

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Katz's Deli: Beyond the Pastrami

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 105: Do You Let Anyone Watch You Weigh In?

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Colicchio & Sons Tap Room: This Time It's Personal

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The Serious Eats Store Is In Business

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Ed Levine answered "Rhubarb" to What's Your Favorite Kind of Pie?

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Ed Levine answered "Taim" to What's Your Favorite New York Falafel?

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Ed Levine got 88% correct on How Much Do You Know About New Orleans Food Culture?

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Ed Levine got 62% correct on Winter Vegetables Quiz

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Recent Comments

From Serious Eats: New York

Restaurant Week: Your Recommendations, Your Warnings

I had an awesome restaurant week lunch at Esca yesterday. They even had crudo on the restaurant week menu, which was predictably delicious. Then I had crispy flounder with roast vegetables in a cider vinaigrette and a goat cheese crostata with citrus fruit slices. $24? You can't beat it.

From Serious Eats: New York

Corsino Cantina: The Quintessential Neighborhood Italian Spot?

@gargupie, I would try the original 'ino for breakfast. get the truffled egg toast.

From Serious Eats

Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Our apologies, Donnadw. Carey is Serious Eats New York editor Carey Jones. And she does have strong feelings about Cleaving, which I hope we will share with you in the near future.

From Serious Eats

Poll: What's Your Favorite Kind of Pie?

this is so tough. I would say a perfect piece of double-crusted peach pie.

From Serious Eats: New York

A Tribute to Gino, 1945-2010?

I remember Teacher's and Marvin Gardens on the Upper West Side so vividly. There are probably restaurants in every neighborhood that fit Ron's description. Anyone else want to weigh in here?

From Talk

Have Gina DiPalma & her recipes disappeared from Serious Eats?

Good news on both the Gina DePalma and Hannah Howard fronts. Gina is writing her next post as I am writing this and Hannah has also come back to the fold. Expect new posts from her in the coming weeks as well.

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Quote and Comment of the Day: 'I'm Disturbed by This Movement'

I have not heard that he's retired. Where did you read that, seriouspizza?

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Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville, Tennessee

Prince's totally rocks. I didn't go near the hot wings. Those suckers are dangerous.

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Boeuf en Daube Provençal

That stew sounds serious. I do need to get a pressure cooker. Will my wife allow another large pot in the house? That is the question.

From Talk

Needed: Quiet Dinner Spot for my 62-year-old visiting Dad!

A few suggestions: Craft, where the steak is great and the tables are very well spaced; Convivio, in Tudor City, amazing pasta and very good steak from Michael White and company, and Marea, where I just ate. It's mostly seafood, but they do have steak on the menu and it is truly a civilized experience. You can hear yourself think at all three restaurants. Hope this helps.

From Serious Eats: New York

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie In New York City

I'm focusing on the seriously delicious cookies we discovered. Carey did an amazingly comprehensive job gathering chocolate chip cookie specimens. The Roasting Plant was the real shocker, but they just kept winning taste tests. We tasted them three different times against Bouchon Bakery's one on one, and the Roasting Plant cookie (via Tomcat) more than held its own every time. But if a crisp, small chocolate chip cookie is what you're after head for the Blue Ribbon market. Conversely, if you want a dense, chewy cookie that could double as a paperweight, then Levain is the cookie for you.

From Talk

Tuna Sandwich in the East Village

I used to like the tuna sandwich on challah at B&H Dairy, but I haven't had it in years.

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L.A. Burdick: Manhattan Gets a Superior Chocolate Shop

they definitely ship. I'm pretty sure mail-order represents the heart of their business.

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Seriously Asian: How to Take a Fat Hiatus

I am down with the fat hiatus, but do I have to go cold turkey?

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On Boston Pizza Crawls

It ended up being a pizza-free day. Might hit up Gran Gusto and/or Galleria Umberto tomorrow.

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Open Thread: Home for the Holidays — Your Sentimental Favorite Pizzeria

It was definitely Vinnie's. I ate many a slice there. Hundreds in fact.

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Open Thread: Home for the Holidays — Your Sentimental Favorite Pizzeria

Cairo's in Inwood, Long Island. Pizza and steak on the grill were my family's standard Sunday dinner in warm weather. I have no idea how they came up with the seemingly odd combination, but I have to tell you it worked for this serious eater.

From Talk

Buche de Noel

Bouchon Bakery is making two kinds of buches, a chocolate frosting with vanilla cake and poached cherries, and a caramel peanut butter buche. Yum. I think you had to pre-order them, but when I called they said they might have some in their case for walk-ups today and tomorrow.

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 98: Pastrami Tasting +Cookie Swap=?

Yup, I'm trying to play squash 3x a week. I've been having some hamstring issues that have impacted my squash schedule, but I'm cautiously optimistic that I'll be able to play all three times next week.

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The Food Lab: How to Cook a Perfect Prime Rib

JH Ford, I think you're talking about the spinalis dorsis. It is indeed the tastiest part of a prime rib or a rib steak for that matter.

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Katz's Deli: Beyond the Pastrami

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Colicchio & Sons Tap Room: This Time It's Personal

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The Serious Eats Store Is In Business

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 104: My Five Rules for an Eat-All-Day Diet

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Statement from Chris Bianco Regarding Absence from Pizzeria Bianco

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Corsino Cantina: The Quintessential Neighborhood Italian Spot?

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 103: The Good News and the Bad News

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Vinegar Hill House: Local, Seasonal, But How's The Food?

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'There's No Mastering of It. You Engage'

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NFL Playoffs Serious Eats-Style: Which Food Cities Rule Off the Field?

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 102: Can Knees Weigh You Down?

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The Great Pastrami Taste-Off: Katz's in New York vs. Langer's in Los Angeles

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Alice Waters–Edible Schoolyard Takedown in the 'Atlantic Monthly': Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

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Dos Toros Taqueria: Mission-Style Burritos, As Good as California's?

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2010 Saveur 100: Reader-Generated for the First Time

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Any Cure for Freezer Burn?

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 101: Post-Holiday Euphoria

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Smoked Haddock Chowder Recipe from the Spotted Pig's April Bloomfield

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L.A. Burdick: Manhattan Gets a Superior Chocolate Shop

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Come Eat at Otto for a Good Cause Tomorrow Night

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 100: Happy New Year, Serious Eaters

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Ingredient of the Year: Brussels Sprouts

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The Pizza Cognition Theory

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The Year That Was: My Top Reviews of 2009

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Ed Levine answered "Yes." to Have You Sent Back Burgers for Not Being Cooked to Your Requested Doneness?

From Serious Eats

Ed Levine answered "Rhubarb" to What's Your Favorite Kind of Pie?

From Serious Eats: New York

Ed Levine answered "Taim" to What's Your Favorite New York Falafel?

Quizzes

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Ed Levine got 88% correct on How Much Do You Know About New Orleans Food Culture?

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Ed Levine got 62% correct on Winter Vegetables Quiz

About Ed Levine

Website: http://www.seriouseats.com

Location: NYC

About: I am the Serious Eats overlord. Launching the site has been the greatest experience of my life, and it continues to be that to this day.

Favorite foods: fried chicken, pizza, barbecue, pie, ice cream

Last bite on earth: Gus' World Famous Fried Chicken, some awesome fries, a few hush puppies, and some piping hot biscuits