Eat. Drink. Live.
It had been more than a year and a half since I was invited to a fantastic dinner — a tasting menu that introduced chef Eric Gao and the Chinese cuisine he would be preparing at O Mandarin in Hartsdale. […]
I tasted the Chinese food of dreams, the quality of which is hard to come by even in New York, at a pan-Asian sushi joint in Port Chester. The occasion was a tasting menu to introduce the press to a new chef, […]
We had a nice little lunch at a cute spot in Hartsdale: Copper Kettle Cafe. lohudfood has the (mini) review, but suffice to say it’s a place Megan and I are both eager to return to. We had pizza and […]
Another new ramen place has opened in Westchester, and so we paid a visit. Dumplings: Saturday lunch crowd: Little girl and her bear: A little tea, thank you. The pork buns were pretty good, but not outstanding. Too tough, not […]
I’ve heard great things about Dumpling+Noodle, the Chinese restaurant in Bronxville, and so had high hopes for its sister restaurant, Fantasy Cuisine in Hartsdale. Alas, our visit was mediocre at best. That didn’t stop us from having fun with chopsticks […]
A quick bowl of ramen and Korean spicy soup at our favorite food court: the food stalls at H-Mart in Hartsdale. The ramen broth was soy sauce, and had a delicate, sweet-salty flavor. The pork and the egg? Eh. Not […]
Westchester’s only Vietnamese restaurant could just skate. Why try hard if you can’t get this kind of food anywhere else? Lucky for us, Saigonese in Hartsdale deserves destination status. You can’t get this food anywhere else, and you should travel […]
We had some errands to run in Westchester, so before we headed back home over the bridge, we decided to do dim sum brunch in Hartsdale. The pork dumplings were delicious. Juicy and pork-y with a light wisp of a […]
If I told you there was an excellent steak at Benjamin Steakhouse in Hartsdale, you probably wouldn’t be surprised. The owners,Benjamin Prelvukaj and chef Artruo McLeod, are alums of Peter Luger in Brooklyn. But what would you say if I […]
My husband, Greg, and I are co-founders of SCF, which chronicles what we eat, drink and grow as we raise our daughter on a tiny plot of land in the Lower Hudson Valley.
