1/2 One of the things I was most struck by while my sister, Melissa, and her husband were visiting from England recently was how impressed they were with the quality of restaurant food. They kept marveling at how good everything...
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I've always loved the gutsy, simpler Tavern menu at the Gramercy Tavern, and after having the meatball entree there recently, I have fallen in love all over again. Michael Anthony's meatball is a long way from the meatballs that filled...
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I had a Danny Meyer week. Fred and I sat in the front room at Gramercy Tavern this past Monday night. Honestly, the front room of GT is one of my all time favorite restaurants in NYC. Not only have...
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OTB In Depth: In the Gramercy Tavern Kitchen with Chef Michael Anthony
Gramercy Tavern is one of my favorite New York City restaurants — its warm, inviting atmosphere combines the very best of casual dining with a cuisine that rivals and often exceeds many of its 3-star cousins. It exists as something of an enigma [...]
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Sneaking Dessert Photos at Gramercy Tavern without Looking Like a D-bag
Raspberry Coffee Cake with Passion Fruit Sorbet.
Chocolate Bread Pudding with Anise Ice Cream.
CPC Birthday Wishes - Apple Tart with Chunky Butter Pecan Ice Cream.
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I know that on Sunday night we ate dinner at the Gramercy Tavern. I know this to be true but as opposed to Daniel, which I wrote about below this, dinner memories aren't flooding to the surface. Everything about the Gramercy Tavern was perfectly executed--the hostess was pleasant (and pregnant), the bar room was colorful and bright and full of flowers, and the food was all pretty flawless. But the experience as a whole sort of felt generic--and maybe that's the point. It is, after all, a tavern.
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For Christmas '01, Bestfriend told Wife to give me a copy of Think Like a Chef by Tom Colicchio. On Bestfriend's recommendation, I read it like a book rather then just recreating the dishes inside. The story of Young Tom at the beach eating the family's whole allotment of shell steaks while they swam, because he was playing with salt, struck me.
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Rip Van Winkle waking in Manhattan after a half-century would have much to puzzle over: the stuff of situation comedy. Many changes are dramatic and salutary: changes in gender and race relations, technological advances, culinary blogs. Others - drugs, divorce, The Donald - can not but dismay. Still other changes sneak up on us, changing our world without awareness.
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So my roommate Doug, his friend Alex and I went to the always warm and inviting Gramercy Tavern for a post-movie drink and nosh for the Saturday evening portion of BLIZZARD 2005! The happy hostesses took our coats and seated us at the best table in the front room, with the cozy love seat and the picture window where we watched the horizontal snow tableau. We shared an excellent cheese plate with raisin fennel, sourdough, and dark raisin pecan bread and rich chicken liver crostini with bacon and generous quenelles of caramelized onion compote and roasted tomato. We commiserated over a pot of green tea for me, a mug of cream-topped hot chocolate for Doug and a cinnamon anointed banana buttered rum for Alex. And it was just lovely. Gramercy Tavern deserves all the props they get. A lot of restaurants in this town could learn a thing or two from Danny Meyer about good service. We all get used and abused, working like a pack of dogs just trying to get our lives on in NYC -- once in a while, it's nice to get cozy with a warm beverage and be treated like an adult.
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I can not count the amount of times that I have been to Grammercy Tavern. During 1999, I literally ran an office out of GT one day a week. We'd sit in the bar seats, the one to the left where there are 2 chairs and a sofa for 2. It was my favorite spot. We'd start with a business lunch, move into cookies and coffee with a new group around 3 and then move into drinks and cheeses around 5ish with another group and then end up with dinner and another group to close out the day.
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Dining at Gramercy Tavern is for people who don’t have trouble being very well taken care of. Owner Danny Meyer’s perpetually bustling classic New York eatery oozes warmth and charm, without a smidge of pretension. Chef/owner Tom Colicchio, and his executive chef Joahn Schaefer who has been with him for almost ten years, deliver on the food in much the same way. While the menu is inventive, it is not over-fussed. Pristine, seasonal ingredients shine, and every bite allows the flavors to converse quietly, yet speak individually as well.
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In the news yesterday, I read that a group of New Yorkers (who else) is suing McDonald's, claiming that they became addicted to the food. Meanwhile, the food at Gramercy Tavern is so addictive that I fear this restaurant will fall victim to a similar lawsuit. (Incidentally, Gramercy Tavern's pastry chef is resigning in order to accept a position at Pret, the sandwich chain partly owned by McDonald's. Judging from the addictive nature of the pastries at Gramercy Tavern, she will be a good fit for her new job.)
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