As much as a complain about Manhattan, I do appreciate that it’s business as usual on Sunday nights. The last time I attempted going out after 9pm on a three-day weekend Sunday was in Toronto, and it was a complete...
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A Late Lunch/Fooding with Sam: Boqueria & Cafe Grumpy
The past Thursday, when the weather in NYC was atrocious: it rained then changed to sleet, transformed to snow, then back to the pouring of rain. Isn’t Mother Nature great?! Sighs… The good thing was that fact I don’t have classes but I had to study for my finals since they’re starting on Monday (4 [...]
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A Night on the (Food) Town: Boqueria & Big Daddy's
Last night, Jessica and I celebrated two of her cousin's birthdays (Olivia and Christina), and just hung out.
Boqueria
We decided that tapas was the perfect way to start the night, and so we headed over to Boqueria on 19th, having heard good things and noticed that it's frequently busy. Because we went early, around 6, we had no problem grabbing a table for four, tucked away in a corner. I
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Besides "What's your favorite restaurant," the question I get asked most at non-food-related parties is "What's a good brunch spot that I won't have to wait on line to get in"? I call it the "Don't tell me about Sarabeth's"...
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We were just supposed to meet at Boqueria for a drink before catching the 7 p.m. show at the Metropolitan Room, but within minutes of sitting down we cancelled our reservation and decided to stay for dinner. And this despite our vow not to go out for the next month.
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Boqueria is a relatively new restaurant on West 19th between 5/6th Avenues. Tapas. Boqueria is the name of the large food market in Barcelona.
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Walking into Boqueria, an authentic tapas bar, I thought the only details missing were cigarette smoke and paper strewn all over the floor. "We can't do that," joked Yann, the owner. But there was an inviting counter full of wheels of Spanish cheese and plates of white anchovy toasts, and a few businessmen sat there sipping beer and cafe con leche. I cast a glance over the packed dining area and decided to sit in the more casual section at the front of the room.
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A funny thing happened when I sat down to write a review of Boqueria: Frank Bruni decided to do the same thing. It's never advisable to be behind the Times, especially when it comes to restaurant reviews. For one thing, I'll probably never be able to get a table at Boqueria again. Frank Bruni's review landed on the kitchen table on Wednesday morning, but I didn't look at it until I wrote this. I didn't want anything Count Frankula (of Bruni Digest fame) said to color my own memories of the place.
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After breaking ground on the Lower East Side with Suba, Yann de Rochefort continues to spread the tapas tradition with the recent opening of Boqueria, a sexy new restaurant in the Flatiron District. Executive chef, Seamus Mullen, who cooked at Brasserie 8 1/2, Crudo and some of Spain's best kitchens, brings a uniquely seasonal and ingredient-driven approach to the authentic Spanish cuisine at Boqueria. This modern space, accented with subway-tiled walls, burlap ceilings and counter-height tables, induces a casually trendy atmosphere. Boqueria is fashionable without being forced, a refreshingly accessible dining experience - it manages to make a scene without being one.
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Tapas are the garage band of the food world. At their best they are tight and inspire you to have raucous fun. Bad, they are neither here nor there, feeling like a small waste of time. By their nature, like covers of great rock, perfect tapas are someone taking a standard and riffing on it; if their interpretation is both solid and unique in some way they have succeeded. What I needed was Jane’s Addiction doing Ripple.
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Arabella and I discussed dinner options and cravings one evening: I am Frenched out for the moment (her) and Can we keep it chill? (me). Tapas, an eating concept from the Basque Country, could be anything bite-sized on a small plate. It’s not French and it’s definitely the most laid-back way I can think of in terms of eating dinner, so to Boqueria we went. I am still reeling from my Catalan vacation and because I had lunch at the boqueria three times while I was in Barcelona, eating pintxos (pin-chos) was an easy pick.
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A lot of new restaurants pay lip service to the notion that you can and should just drop in, grab a seat and have a bit of this and of that, washed down by a kind of wine or drink you haven’t seen in 500 other places around town. But they often don’t feel all that different from more conventional, older restaurants.
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About two years ago now, I spent a few weeks in Barcelona. I was there for the wedding of my freshman roommate from college, Caroline, whom I call Vern. (Long story.) Anyway, Vern was the most exquisite bride and she was married in the most exquisite setting—a century’s old church carved out of the side of a mountain range. And last year, Vern and her husband Oscar had a baby Vern, a little dumpling named Olivia, who is the most exquisite child.
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