Finally made it to The Little Owl last night. The place is super quaint, holds about six people and keeps it real with a framed shot of Rick James in the john. I went mainly for the gravy meatball sliders (a heavenly blend of beef, pork, veal topped with pecorino and squished between two tiny [...]
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I know, another New York restaurant review. But I really tried hard to check out a bunch of places I'd never been too on this visit (sacrificing some of my faves in the process). For my last night in town, pals Hank and Lisa suggested that I check out The Little Owl. What they stipulated: It's a small dining room, so reservations are necessary, and sometimes tough to nail down the day of. While you're waiting...
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I was shooting a television piece at The Little Owl yesterday (yes, there are finally going to be new episodes of Reservations Required, the Ultra HD show that runs on Channel 25 in Manhattan on Fridays at 9 p.m), and...
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BB's pick for FC last month was the little owl. Unfortunately, we hadn't realized how small the place was or how hard it is to get reservations, so we snagged reservations for this month instead... at 5:15 pm. This presented a problem as most of us get out of work much later than that... and I was stuck by a last minute mini-project so I arrived uncharacteristically 35 minutes late (I'm usually
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The food press and the blogosphere have been raving about The Little Owl since it opened in the the West Village in late May. We gave it a try last night, and while we had a thoroughly enjoyable casual meal, we were a tad less enraptured than others who’ve written about it.
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It made no sense to wind up at The Little Owl after attending the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center, but somehow we did. Diana's youngest brother Brian was in town and we thought it would be fun to get rocked by Amadeus at Avery Fisher Hall. Our plan was to see the concert and then to eat Mexican food afterwards across the street at Rosa Mexicana.
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Something occurred to me while dining at Little Owl that often slips my mind while eating at Megaplex feeding huts like Nobu 57, Buddakan and Spice Market. It was a thought that went beyond how wonderful chef Joey Campanaro’s food was, and how graciously (almost lovingly) partner and manager Gabriel Stulman welcomes guests to their petite postage stamp-as-restaurant. What I felt while eating at The Little Owl was the same feeling I had the first time I had dinner at Tia Pol, at El Bocadito, at Little Giant, and Lassi, and at spots like The Tasting Room and Extra Virgin when they first opened. It was the feeling of watching someone’s dream come true. It was this overwhelming notion that everyone of us sitting at one of The Little Owls’ eight tightly spaced tables—passing platters of glossy slices of Spanish cured ham, pulling plump saucy meatball sliders off plates (staining cheeks and skirts), and fighting over the last bits of asparagus home fries—was participating in a real life dream come true of two young and wildly talented forces in our industry.
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We told ourselves we will find another place in the West Village if the wait for a table at The Little Owl was unbearable. Thankfully, we were seated right away when we walked in at 7pm because I would have missed the soft-shell crab and asparagus, the sardines with green beans and the hamachi with coleslaw. Match that with a bottle of chilled white wine and you wouldn’t have gone anywhere else either.
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Amidst the continuous barrage of elephantine-sized restaurants, The Little Owl has quietly moved onto the restaurant scene, modestly emerging as an overnight neighborhood success. After helming the kitchen at The Harrison and now defunct Pace (currently home to Mr. Chow Tribeca), chef Joey Campanaro & partner Gabriel Stulman have down-sized to decidedly more quaint quarters (32 seats) to put on a two man show. Cradled on the breezy Greenwich Village corner of Bedford & Grove, The Little Owl is a charming and rustic cafe, fashioned of exposed brick wall, wine-colored banquettes, wood tables, mix-and-match plates, and two walls of white-framed windows with glorious street views
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Different types of people are drawn to different types of restaurant and in a perfect world everyone has a place that feeds them as they like, in a room in which they are comfortable. The truth is that the price of a dish of food in a restaurant includes all the costs involved in running the restaurant. At the base level there is the electricity, gas, rent, insurance and so on, and at another level there are the publicists, consultants, and decorators. The more a restaurateur puts into a place the more the food on the plate will cost. This makes the most special of finds for foodies a place confidently making high caliber food without the added costs of adornment.
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What an awesome meal... After hearing such great things about The Little Owl from the likes of Bruni, the Amateur Gourmet and restaurantgirl, I'd been dying to try it out. Reservations were always hard to come by but on Wednesday night, I took a chance and popped in at 6PM sharp to try to snag a seat. Not only were they gracious enough to seat my party of 2 immediately, we got a great seat in the corner of the cozy and bustling dining room. Our waitress was incredibly friendly and enthusiastic about the food and all her recommendations were stars
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